Bumped up…
Tribune asks: When did Obama stop wearing a flag pin?
Answer: Who gives a flying fig?
From comments to that John McCormick Swamp post (which deserves to stay in the swamp):
TRUE patriots have the US flag tatooed on their foreheads.
Obama is clearly a traitor.
I am a Republican, I don’t plan to vote for Obama, and even I don’t care. It doesn’t matter a whit whether he wears a pin. He is absolutely correct in that.
And the fact that he is not wearing it is not in the slightest newsworthy. Your editor needs to find some useful work for you to do.
Posted by: Paul B | October 4, 2007 4:19 PM
Please don’t take those admonitions as a cue to go back to talking about Hillary’s boobs or laugh or whatever else is completely irrelevant to our country’s future (and why are there hardly any media stories about Mitt Romney’s $300 haircuts or Rudy Giuliani’s pricey lingerie and evening wear?).
UPDATE: Apparently, wearing a little pin actually is a good substitute for seared-into-your-heart patriotism … who knew? Mark W. Johnson obligingly links like a lemming. One wonders if Mr. Johnson and the LGF bloggers wear stars-and-stripes underoos so they can sit on the flag all day while typing their drivel.
What’s next? Complaints that his ties are insufficiently American, his deodorant doesn’t smell like apple pies and his handkerchief contains a secret code for treacherous thoughts?
It’s not like conserv-o-partisans haven’t already made up stuff about his church or his grammar school of all things… maybe they’re running out of things to complain about when it comes to Sen. Obama, ya think?
UPDATE 2: Your Sun-Times’ Obamarama columnist Lynn Sweet reveals…
- National media gobbling up non-story about apparel accessories like kids in a candy store with a fiver burning a hole in their wee li’l pockets.
- Iowa media snoring because they’re grown-ups and it’s a friggin’ non-story.
- Retired Gen. Tony McPeak has endorsed Sen. Obama and opines that this pin “business” is stooopid. From Ms. Sweet:“I think the Senator understands that patiriotism [sic] is hard work,” McPeak said and sticking a pin on is “facile” and “easy.”What matters, said MPeak, [sic] is what “comes from the heart, not the clotihing [sic]…the difference between petty symbolism and real judgement.
Ms. Sweet also gives some background on General McPeak…
McPeak, a combat veteran who is outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war said what makes Obama different is his “life experience” which “I think prepares him to deal with questions (of) international security.” He downplayed “this business about the lapel pin.” McPeak said he met Obama after one of his Senate staffers called him to arrange a meeting about six or eight months ago.
Guess all that makes Gen. McPeak a “phony soldier” according to the draft-dodging Rush Limbaugh and the nonsensical conservative-partisans defending Rush’s indefensible troop bashing. Oh, but wait, we’re not supposed to talk about generals at all, are we?
UPDATE 2a: Lynn Sweet provides more background on Obama-endorser (and recovering Republican) Gen. Tony McPeak — former Air Force Chief of Staff, 1996 Bob Dole and 2000 George Bush campaigner, opponent of ill-defined and open-ended military adventures based on lies…
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