FRANKLY I THINK HE IS MAKING A POINT. THE OTHER SIDE USES THE PINS AS A SIGN OF THEIR PATRIOTISM.
2007-10-11 17:56:40 · 18 answers · asked by endgame1915 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Yes! He has the heart of this country on his lapel, and that is enough.
2007-10-11 17:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't have anything against Obama and frankly I have stopped noticing all the flag waving from my politicians since some have taken to rattling sabers. I hope that the criteria we use to determine the next leader of the free world includes more then their wardrobe choices.
I don't give a damn if he is out of uniform so long as he has some degree of common sense and cares at least as much for the 300+ million people of this country as he cares for his off shore accounts. If he does that he will be 500% better thne any politician we have had in about 100 years.
2007-10-11 18:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I accept as true with what i trust what Obama changed into attempting to say that we are substituting fluff for substance. purely because someone wears a flag pin would not recommend that he or she is patriotic and purely because someone would not recommend that he or she isn't. shame on the media for specializing in meaningless junk like this instead of focusing interest on more desirable significant topics/messages. there's a lot to talk and debate.
2016-10-09 01:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has the right to not wear a lapel pin.
If I were running for office, I would not wear the pin either.
The lapel pin is as meaningless as someone who wears a cross around their neck.
2007-10-12 03:50:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why in the heck does he have to wear a flag pin? who cares? is that the only way a person can prove they are patriotic to you? to wear a superficial and silly pin on their tie? give me a break. i say good for him for not choosing to follow a trend just because it is just that -- a trend. it means nothing. are they more patriotic than him just bcuz they wear some silly pin? no, they are not.
2007-10-11 18:05:12 · answer #5 · answered by KJC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I could care less if he wears the damn pin or not. However, there are many who do and he is thumbing his nose at those people. Lets see if he continues to go sans pin for the rest of the election cycle.
2007-10-11 18:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If a flag is all we see as a symbol of "patriotism", then we are indeed lost as a nation.
I see the Constitution, and the brave men and women who brought it into being as a true symbol of patriotism.
I have a copy of it hanging on my office wall.
2007-10-11 18:01:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
the others are using it as a sign of there patronizing not there patriotism, and its about time some one called them on it
2007-10-11 18:07:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actions make you a patriot, not pins.
2007-10-11 18:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by Sordenhiemer 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
With the advent of 24 hrs a day news , the media HAS to come up with something to fill the time, even if it's BS.
2007-10-11 18:08:07 · answer #10 · answered by TedEx 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain” - George McGovern, 1972 Democratic presidential candidate (lost to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew)
2007-10-11 18:05:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋