There is clearly some embarassment here...the embarassment that all the conservatives think they have to sell is "Our Candidate Proudly Wears a Lapel Pin" I mean McCain was a POW for goodness sake...he was probably tortured in ways that Dick Cheney can only have wet dreams about getting to use. But "Lapel Pins" are what people choose to emphasize. I weep for this country. At least the Willie Horton non-issue was appealing to fear. This just appeals to dumb.
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded. - Carlin
'Who doesn't wanna wear the pin? I am wearing the pin, he is wearing the pin. we are all wearing the pin! So why aren't you gonna to wear the pin?'
Wasn't there a story a few weeks ago about how Mccain hadn't worn the pin since locking up the nomination and how the media didn't fabricate a story around it? ROXRAN, it's not the pin you care about, you just need something, anything that you can use to attack Obama. YAWN
I care about the fact the lapel pin depicts the American flag...I care that you have the freedom via reasoning for not wearing one (although Obama's reasoning is silly/dumb/stupid, etc.)...I also care that a declared and specified position should hold greater weight in extreme leadership positions...
Agreed. I hear Obama doesn't have a clear position on Whataburger or In N Out. Clearly he's not fit to be leader if he can't choose between the American burgers.
Blue Jeans boys and girls was once a symbol of freedom,...even patriotism. Blue jeans went hand in hand with the Americana way of life...To illustrate the silliness of Obama's reasoning: Imagine if those that have "twisted" the meaning of patriotism all wore and championed blue jeans.... http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/bluejeans.htm You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had blue jeans. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that blue jeans. Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism. This is what he’s saying now: Obama then referred to the time last October, when a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, TV reporter asked him why he didn’t wear blue jeans. “Then I was asked about this in Iowa,” Obama said. “And somebody said ‘Why don’t you wear blue jeans?’ I said, well, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I said, although I will say that sometimes I notice that they’re people who wear blue jeans but they don’t always act patriotic. And I was specifically referring to politicians, not individuals who wear blue jeans, but politicians who you see wearing blue jeans and then vote against funding for veterans, saying we can’t afford it.”
I agree,...If he doesn't affirm to that, how will he do on bigger issues? The truth is we don't know that he will stand by his words on getting the troops out. I really want to believe in him. I don't know...? How do I know he won't say that sometimes he will try to get the troops out rather than he will...?
Yeah tell me about "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - G.W. Bush, 9/13/01 "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 I wonder if this declared and specified position was at the top of your list when you voted for shrub in 2004 or was the glare from his lapel pin so bright that it gave you temporary amnesia.
Make no mistake...I have disagreed with Bush on some issues and stances,...this is an example. Thanks for pointing that out, and let it heed the similar warning from Obama's position.
Reading roxran's posts has made me seriously consider the need for minimum IQ standards as prerequisite to gaining the right to vote.
Per Wikipedia... She was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and then educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She returned to Chicago after completing her formal education to work for the law firm Sidley Austin, on the staff of the Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals. If you don't think this woman is "bright," you need to get your head examined.
How about McCain's reasoning for not wearing one since he wrapped up the GOP nomination? Was his reasoning "silly/dumb/stupid" too? Oh, that's right, McCain hasn't had to answer a single question about his bare lapel, we reserve those [idiotic] questions for those lacking the (R) behind their name on C-SPAN.
The effect of this entire lapel flag "issue" has been to remind me that even though I could vote for McCain in an absolute void, I should never consider it because of the baggage of all the self-righteous buffoons who he will necessarily drag into power with him. From my perspective, the more Republicans harp on this point, the more they are shooting themselves in the foot. I really think that I am not alone in this. It is my guess that for the most part the only people who aren't alienated by this are already hardcore Republicans. So if the Republican Party wants to make this issue central to their campaign to convince me and other Americans to vote for McCain, I wish them the best of luck. Every time some hardcore Republican repeats it, I believe they are digging the grave for the 2008 Republican Party a little bit deeper.
I hear Obama wears a flag t-shirt and camouflage underwear, that should definitely score some points in the compound.
