Obama stops wearing flag pin
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 5, 11:38 AM ET
Barak Obama is getting things all mixed up feeling versus being patriot is not the same thing. Either your with us or your against us plain and simple.WATERLOO, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he no longer wears an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for "true patriotism" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
He commented on the pin in a television interview Wednesday and then again on Thursday at a campaign appearance in Independence, Iowa.
Noting the TV interview, he told the campaign crowd, "I said, you know what, I probably haven't worn a flag pin in a very long time. After a while I noticed people wearing a lapel pin and not acting very patriotic.""My attitude is that I'm less concerned about what you're wearing on your lapel than what's in your heart. You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those who serve. You show your patriotism by being true to our values and ideals. That's what we have to lead with is our values and our ideals."
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Being from "The Show Me State" I'd like to see a little less talk and a lot more action when it comes to patriotism. :)
The flag is our symbol of freedom. When you take the pin off, it is setting him up for all kind of criticism and deservedly so. A substitute? No, it's called a symbol! How can you possibly confuse the two?
Oops I posted this on the post below this one lol
Why cant these Morons leave the American Flag OUT of Politics?
Either wear one or dont, just dont try and exuse not wearing one for some rediculous protest against the war when you are running to be the Commander-In-Cheif of our armed forces!
How much more ignorant can this guy get?
"Your action of wearing or not wearing an American flag on your lapel determines the side you're on."
Is that for real? Is that all it takes for you to spot a patriot? I really hope that the test is expanded a bit to include more fundamental criteria!
How about singing the national anthem as a test to see who are the real patriot among us? I am sure you are all aware of the story for 2006 where politicians didn't know the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=1937527&page=1
(read pages 2 and 3 of the article)
Seriously, we should really focus to substantive issues. Who wears an pin and who doesn't isn't important at all.
I disagree AnonymousCoward,
Although the ability to know the lyrics is important but then again how many people for that matter remember all the lyrics to their favorite gospel hymn.
You see it's easy to put on a Lapel Pin it doesn't take a lot of memorization which a lot of people don't have when one gets older and one can easily forget words in a song, it's common place with older people that they forget some things. But something as easy as putting on a flag lapel pin does matter.
"But something as easy as putting on a flag lapel pin does matter."
If something is really easy, then it doesn't matter. All the chinese factory workers where these pins are made could all take and wear a flag lapel pin from the assembly line and that still wouldn't make them patriots.
Can't we find a better patriotic litmus test?
(I don't think knowing the national anthem should be that test either.)
I got an idea anonymouscoward, how about let's let the Military decide this issue.
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