On May 15, 9:47=A0am, "Harry Dope" <Pres.McCain...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Obama S****ts Flag Pin...Or Not
> Charles Babington, AP/Congressional Quarterly
> Like the American flag that Francis Scott Key famously wrote about, the
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> on Barack Obama's lapel keeps appearing and disappearing. The Democratic
> presidential hopeful said he generally stopped wearing a flag pin after
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> 2001 terrorist attacks because he felt it replaced "true patriotism" for
> some public officials. Some Americans, however, say they question the
> patriotism of a candidate who makes such a choice, a sentiment that
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> in polls. Last month, the pin briefly reappeared on his suit jacket.
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> said a veteran had given it to him that day and asked him to wear it. It
> wasn't seen again until Monday, when Obama spoke to a veterans' group in
> West Virginia. On Tuesday, when he spoke about the economy to workers in
> Missouri, it was there again...Asked if he probably will wear the pin
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> now on, Obama said, "Sometimes it ends up being on another suit. If it
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> up being on another suit, I might leave it one day, but it's something
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> I've done before and I'll certainly wear it again."
>
> Editor's Note: Glad to see his lack of commitment to something veteran's
> feel strongly about hasn't waned...
I missed the part where it says that the military thinks Obama is
unpatriotic.
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