Do the Chinese-made plastic American flags that everybody flew starting 9/11/01, that are now lying tattered and bleached in the broken glass and oil and poison ivy by the side of every highway in the US offend you at all? I have seen scores of them in ditches, and more just barely hanging onto the cars of "patriots".
What do you say? Who is the more respectful?
2007-10-04 17:48:26 · 30 answers · asked by oimwoomwio 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Even though I understand fully what you're getting at here ... and realize that you're making a point that these 'patriots' actually show disrespect to our flag because of laziness and littering ... I feel I should tell you that I remember seeing Obama wearing a US flag lapel several years back. I can't remember the exact time or occasion but I think it was during the last Democratic Presidential Convention. Or during an interview right before or after the convention. I remember it pretty well. It showed up brightly on his dark suit.
Has he publicly claimed that he won't wear one now for some reason? I haven't heard about this. Can you fill me in?
2007-10-04 18:01:43 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You must mean all the time because he does sometimes. Just like McCain. The quote relates to the wearing of the pin has become a fake patriotism which I agree with. It is funny how he is pegged as the false one with only image going when those who pay attention realize that he has stuck with what he has said all along.
2016-05-21 04:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reminded of a song from the 1990s by the Christian Recording Artist Michael W. Smith. The song was entitled "Cross of Gold." In the song, Mr. Smith asks "Why do you wear that cross of gold?" He further asks if it is "decoration" or "proclamation"?
The same applies here. I care more about a politicians actions not what he wears on his suit. A politician who refuses to fully fund veterans benefits is not a patriot even if he happens to be the current President of the United States. A politician who supports the values of this country even if he opposes its current policies is a patriot.
2007-10-04 18:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
This "America first" stuff looks really sad from here in the UK. I mean you have 25% of the worlds resources for 10% of the worlds population, have enormous oceans protecting your borders, and have never been properly invaded and you are all waving flags!!
Are you insecure or guilty about something? Only red-neck taxi drivers who want to show they are not immigrants show the flag in England.
2007-10-04 18:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
That people dispose of the flag improperly offends me. That someone won't wear a knee-jerk proclamation of patriotism on his clothes doesn't bother me at all. I've seen too many murderers with crosses tattooed on their arms. Doesn't make them Christians.
2007-10-04 18:21:44 · answer #5 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Waving a flag isnt patriotism. Show me the line that Thomas Jefferson supported this kind of thinking. There arent any. The real patriots the ones that bled to free us from the Monarchy and religious opression, have all been supplanted with these made in china lapel pin neocons.
2007-10-04 18:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 4⤋
So any black person that achieves a certain level of success, you call them uppity.
Spoken like the true racist that you obviously are.
He does not have to wear a lapel pin if he does not want to.
Racists like you are not going to vote for him anyway, so why should it matter?
In your sick perverted mind, you think that he is being controlled by wearing a flag pin.
You are a very sick person, why don't you go to stormfront.com and debate that question with your fellow racists.
2007-10-04 18:17:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Not a bit. I respect his decision to wear - or not to wear - whatever he wants.
I am much more concerned about people like you - who, to be fair, definitely exist on both sides - but people like you, who are so judgmental and full of hatred towards your fellow Americans...that's really sad. I may disagree with a lot of the left, but I don't hold all liberals to task because of some of the drooling liberidiots I see on here. Then again, I really try not to waste my time and energy hating *anyone* - let alone millions of people I don't even know.
"Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored.”
Try to have a nice night.
2007-10-04 18:17:38 · answer #8 · answered by Jadis 6 · 7⤊ 3⤋
I have practically nothing in common with Obama except that of US citizen. I can see his point about the flag if his true intention is that he is offended by the flag being produced in China. I may have more issues with China than I do Obama. That said, however, I don't trust Obama and I'm not so sure his real intention is to diss the flag itself like many of his supporters take great joy doing in public. Whoever is responsible for the discarding of a flag replica, plastic or otherwise, should be ashamed of themselves. It isn't likely they will be, any more than those who burn or defecate on the flag in public ever will be.
It's great to live in a country that allows people to demonstrate their ignorance and immaturity in public, isn't it?
2007-10-04 18:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
Wearing one's patriotism on one's sleeve always seemed like a strange concept to me. Real patriotism comes from the heart, not from a $0.99 lapel pin.
whcwarrior_10, kimmyisahotbabe, for the 6234724574235723848327483274th time, Obama's not a Muslim. You can keep saying it all you want, but it's just plain not true.
EDIT: Oh, whcwarrior has a "source". (InsightMag? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
Well, how about a little Snopes to damper your day!:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
2007-10-04 18:14:39 · answer #10 · answered by Liberals love America! 6 · 13⤊ 3⤋