According to Douglas Schoen of the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama needs to look at the general election and define himself before the Republican Party does. While I agree with this view, Mr. Schoen suggests that I cannot stand. He says: “First and foremost, he must start symbolically wearing the flag lapel pin. He simply cannot bring doubts about his patriotism.” I’m sorry, but what does a standard lapel pin do with which one is good? He was called by the brain-dead Media like Mr. Schoen, and ABC during the last presidential debate between Obama and Clinton for lowering the intelligence of all of us and insulting the intelligence of the American people.
Senator Obama told the Associated Press that he no longer wears the flag lapel pin because people have started using it as an empty symbol of patriotism instead of actually being loving. I couldn’t agree with him more. The same people who claim to love America and wear the flag lapel pin on their chests are nothing more than politicians wanting to get their election by sending 4,000 American troops to their deaths in a war they started with lies. In fact, the words of Obama, as in the New York, perfectly convey; “But after a while you start to notice people wearing lapels, but not acting very lovingly. Not voting to provide veterans with the resources they need. Not voting to get disability payments out on time.” This is 100% true. People who profess to be lovers wear their standard lapel pins everywhere, they also tend to vote in very un-godly ways.
I think Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip does a great job of eluding the stupid people who think you’re a lover of wearing a lapel pin.
Here’s the deal. We need to look at what is “symbolic” and what is really in the hearts and minds of those people. What people really need to do is stop looking at what someone wears and believes and start looking at what they actually believe and how they vote. What is even more troubling is that people in love of country are questioning Obama because of his decision not to wear a lapel pin. People may think they don’t love America and what it stands for. However, someone like McCain, who wants to send our sons and daughters to die in Iraq, has never been questioned about his piety.
This reminds me of the campaign in 2002 in South Dakota. Then Senator Tim Johnson was running against our incumbent and now Senator John Thune. At this time, Senator Johnson was the only member of Congress to have a child fighting in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the only person who voted in person to vote for the Bush Administration’s wars. However, at this time, the Republican Party put the ads of Senator Johnson on the national question, because he refused to spend billions of dollars on a dirty and irresponsible missile defense plan. He was hostile against someone who had his first-born son in the military, all of the state. Unfortunately, the Republican Party likes to use this technique to try and convince the ignorant people that they are the ones who are not loving and popular.
I have one word for the media: Stop! Stop doing this shit and help the world’s idiots debate each other. We need to ask questions that matter, not just a statement.
Barack Obama loves America. In fact, he likes it enough to want to explain to people about his plans and why he loves America instead of wearing a needle that is hollow. The people who think this is important are the same people who probably have a ribbon on their vehicle saying “support the troops” while driving an SUV that gets 8 miles to the gallon – other words that feel better wearing a pin. or magnetic ribbons, while they do nothing to anything they support, as if to believe.
Real goods don’t need to wear a pin that’s made in China. Our true lovers do not people across the world die for oil. True lovers fight for American rights and we hold true freedoms. Barack Obama is very loving and he doesn’t need a pin to tell us.
Douglas Schoen, “Obama and the Values Question Mark”; Wall Street Journal
Associated Press, “Barack Obama Stops Wearing American Flag Lapel Pin”; Fox News
Jeff Zeleny, “Obama’s Lapels”; The New York Times
