Enough is an enough of the who is wearing the flag lapel pin contest. We have isses in this country than to worry about whether a candidate is wearing his/her patriotism on his/her sleeves called the flag lapal pin! We in this country never voted for President based on a flag lapel pin.
Finally, the nimrods in the media and the nauseating neo-cons don't have a clue that the same flag lapel pin that they are either wearing or keep badgering Obama about are the same pins that are made in China! Our makers of the flag lapel pins are not made in the U.S.A.! Great article by a blogger:
I am one of those whiny elitists who is sick to death of hearing about whether Barack Obama is wearing a flag pin in his lapel today, and what bearing this might have on his patriotism.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was last month's ABC Democratic candidates' debate, in which moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos devoted the entire first half of the debate to insubstantial issues, prominent among them the manufactured controversy over Obama's flag pin or lack thereof.
I left that debate depressingly resigned to the fact that only in America could candidates for the Presidency - a post that involves crucial decisions of war and peace, health care, education and fiscal policy, etc... etc... - have their suitability for office judged on the basis of something as superficial as whether or not they wear a lapel pin.
But I was wrong.
Last night, I was surfing through a Hamas-affiliated Web forum (as one does when one blogs on Israel-Palestine), when I was comforted and at the same time appalled to learn it's not just us. Obviously, on a Hamas forum it's not unexpected to see PA/Fatah leaders pilloried as "traitors to the cause", but I was little surprised to learn that for some Hamas supporters the ultimate proof of Mahmoud Abbas' treachery is ......
he doesn't wear a flag pin in his lapel!
Isn't that funny?
So I guess it's not just Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos who think the key test of Presidential material is whether Obama wears a flag pin. There's actually someone else in the world who thinks just like them. And it's Hamas! How about that.
http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2008/05/patriotism-made.html
3 comments:
Isn't that something? Made in China...the VFW gave me one not longer ago. Why I have never been so insulted!
Better to not wear something patriotic when it's not patriotic to not support Made in USA.
TGCN you said a mouth full. Prissy don't be insulted as most of the things sold in the US are not made in the US. World Trade agreement changed that a long time ago. In 1962 then President Kennedy said an American Patriot wears his honor for our country in his/her heart not a pin or a flag. Those are some of the lessons lost with time. Now I remember while visiting Canada with Peaches I brought a Canada flag pin with Canada/US but never giving a thought it reflected my Patriotism. Also I met hundreds of our Military soldiers who didn't were flag pins. Would someone say they aren't Patriotic? A flag, flag pin or ribbon on a car isn't Patriotic it's advertisement, it's in your heart that proves you love our country as the soldiers do everyday.
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