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In reply to the discussion: How much longer WILL Dem officeholders feel they HAVE to wear those $*%&^#@ FLAG PINS! [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)28. I doubt the President dislikes wearing it BUT,
It has been made into an obligation to prove your patriotism. Just like when there was the uproar on the net because the President wasn't holding his hand over his heart at some event where the national anthem was played. No where in the Constitution or in any statutes is that a requirement. It's another show of BS symbolism by the people who always seem to be more concerned with the symbolism than with doing anything productive.
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How much longer WILL Dem officeholders feel they HAVE to wear those $*%&^#@ FLAG PINS! [View all]
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
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Romney did NOT wear his flag pin today when he went to White House to lunch with Pres Obama
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
#3
When we stop calling our nation "The Homeland" and go back to "nation" or "country"
Hekate
Nov 2012
#4
Yes. The perpetually dirty, tattered, ragged American flags that deserve better.
Aristus
Dec 2012
#21
To back up your quotes, look at the early pictures and movies of the Nazi Party in Germany....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#42
I think it represents their perception of the permanent terror alert level
pinboy3niner
Dec 2012
#13
Does anyone else remember lapel pins that were inscribed (in teeny-tiny letters)
amandabeech
Dec 2012
#19
Yes, "made to"! If you don't wear it, you aren't a patriot, as far as RWNJs are concerned. eom
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2012
#32
"Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools." Schopenhauer
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#31
There are still chinese yellow ribbons sported around on goofy peoples' cars.
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#38
That's my opinion as well. The GOP loses a talking point when Dems wear it too.....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#48