Anyone else notice?

JLB · #1 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 08:14 PM

Obama's American flag pin is back.

eleanoraquitaine · #2 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 08:22 PM

What a patriot.

justabubba · #3 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 08:44 PM

it was given to him prior to his speech. he immediately put it on his lapel in appreciation for the presentation from a disabled American veteran

what would you have suggested he had done differently?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/pol...ma.flagpin.cnn

superdude17* · #4 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 08:46 PM

lol, given to him by a veteran. he was forced to wear it. sad.

Cassidy · #5 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 08:48 PM

About time he wore one. Honestly, I THINK I understand his reasoning behind his choice of not wearing a pin, but if he's attempting to win the hearts of American voters - especially the moderates - it would be prudent for him to wear the pin.

CrusaderRabbit08 · #6 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 09:05 PM

I don't pay any attention to Obama; nor do I pay any attention to Clinton and McCain. They're all a bunch of sanctimonious idiots. It's a pity one of them will be our next president; but then again, we suffered through two terms of Bush.

Sickntiredofliblies · #7 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 09:47 PM

Wearing a flag doesn't make you a patriot.
Where does this end?

justabubba · #8 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 07:07 AM

Quote:

"I wore my flag tonight, first time. Until now I haven’t thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see. It was enough to vote, pay my taxes, perform my civic duties, speak my mind and do my best to raise our kids to be good Americans. Sometimes I would offer a small prayer of gratitude that I had been born in a country whose institutions sustain me, whose armed forces protected me and whose ideals inspired me. I offered my heart’s affection in return. It no more occurred to me to flaunt the flag on my chest than it did to pin my mother’s picture on my lapel to prove her son’s love. Mother knew where I stood. So does my country. I even tuck a valentine in my tax returns on April 15th. So what’s this doing here? I put it on to take it back. The flag’s been hijacked and turned into a logo, the trademark—the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism. On most Sunday morning talk shows, official chests appear adorned with the flag as if it’s the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. During the State of the Union, did you notice Bush and Cheney wearing the flag? How come? No administration’s patriotism is ever in doubt, only its policies. And the flag bestows no immunity from error. When I see flags sprouting on official labels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book of orthodoxy on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread.
"But more galling than anything are all those moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag in their lapel while writing books and running web sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American. They are people whose ardor for war grows disproportionately to their distance from the fighting. They’re in the same league as those swarms of corporate lobbyists wearing flags and prowling Capitol Hill for tax breaks, even as they call for spending more on war.
“So I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks. or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don’t have to make it, or approve of bribing governments to join the ‘Coalition of the Willing.’ I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government, and it reminds me that it’s not un-American to think that war, except in self defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve and diplomacy. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.”

Bill Moyers' words
i would like to think Obama's reasoning was similar when he decided to stop wearing the "brand"
but i think we would all agree it would be bad form for Obama not to accept and immediately display the lapel pin generously gifted to him by a disabled American veteran

votetheoneyouhatetheleast · #9 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sickntiredofliblies

Wearing a flag doesn't make you a patriot.
Where does this end?

True, although I quite like those, very tasteful.

rodrigu3 · #10 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 07:43 AM

Quote:

When I see flags sprouting on official labels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book of orthodoxy on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread.

That kind of reminds me of the uncut pages in the books of Gatsby's library in The Great Gatsby.

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