Ok. I'll throw out what the Loons on the Left always say about everything other candidate:
Panderer!!!!

Hypocrite. Whichever way the wind blows, eh Barack?

Yeah.....and who cares again?.....oh yeah, the nutty Wingnuts, the very same Wingnuts who have absolutely NOTHING to run on this year other than the usual fear and smear BS...

Wearing a flag pin makes you patriotic...just like if you wear green your Irish. I have to say John D is right. This is a pander to the fools who believe jewelry makes you patriotic.

I looked in your McCain photo gallery. Guess what? No flag pins.

I've also looked at Clinton & McCain in google images. Guess what? Lots of photos of them without flag pins.

Are we to conclude that none of the candidates are patriotic?

I don't get the criticism when many times, the other candidates are not wearing a flag pin either.

If you had bothered to watch the news Obama gave the name of the vet who gave him the pin just before he was to speak, thanked him for his service to the country and put the pin on. If he hadn't put the pin on then you would have been complaining that Obama dissed a disabled vet. Please get a life!

Today on the campaign trail:

Obama shoots hoops with reporters and staff members

Clinton recalls her days visiting the tough neighborhoods of South Philly with her dad and squaring off against some of the top playground players while ducking the crossfire from the local gangs. She let's out a little laugh when admitting the other players were so in awe of her talent, they dubbed her "White Chocolate".

Obama not patriotic, he is a hypocrite. Wearing the flag pin is just a ploy to say 'look at me, I'm patriotic' I will make a good President. It is a slap in all Americans faces!

Frustrated & bitter about the way the Country feels about him, his fringe,non-mainstream
ideas and values, including his
pastor and the criticism about their patriotism , he is CLINGING to the flag pin?

What flip-flop will be next?

What a silly primary!

Had the media and the DNC
investigated and vetted him, he might not be at the point of being the nominee.

Hypocrite. Whichever way the wind blows, eh Barack?

Posted by: Jeff | April 16, 2008 3:25 PM

Hypocrite. Whichever way the wind blows, eh John W McCain?

AP-WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain likes to present himself as the candidate of the "Straight Talk Express" who does not pander to voters or change his positions with the political breeze. But the fine print of his record in the Senate indicates that he has been a lot less consistent on some of his signature issues than he has presented himself to be so far in his presidential campaign.

Mr. McCain, who derided his onetime Republican competitor Mitt Romney for his political mutability, has himself meandered over the years from position to position on some topics, particularly as he has tried to court the conservatives who have long distrusted him. His most striking turnaround has been on the Bush tax cuts, which he voted against twice but now wants to make permanent. Mr. McCain has also expressed varying positions on immigration, torture, abortion and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary.
The article points out that McCain has reversed course on several key issues as he has tried to gain the support of the Republican base. To summarize the article:

On tax cuts...

In 2001, McCain voted against Bush's tax cuts, saying "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief." He also voted against additional tax cuts in 2003, later saying that "I just thought it was too tilted to the wealthy, and I still do."
Today, McCain wants to make those tax cuts permanent.

On immigration...

In 2005, McCain supported comprehensive immigration reform, which included a pathway to citizenship.
Now, he claims that "if his original proposal came to a vote on the Senate floor, he would not vote for it."

On abortion and Roe v. Wade...

In 1999, McCain said that he would not support overturning Roe v. Wafe "int he sort term, or even the long term," because that would "force X number of women in America" to undergo "illegal and dangerous operations."
Today, McCain has campaigned on overturning Roe v. Wade.

On his revisionist history regarding Donald Rumsfeld...

In 2004, McCain refused to call for Rumsfeld's resignation, saying that Bush "can have the team around him that he wants around him." In 2006, retired generals called for Rumseld's resignation, but McCain did not.
Now, while running for president, McCain has claimed that "I’m the only one that said that Rumsfeld had to go." The article notes that "[t]he campaign has since acknowledged that Mr. McCain was incorrect, and more recently the senator has stopped short of claiming he called for the defense secretary’s ouster."

On torture...

McCain has traditionally been against torture, citing his experience as a POW for his decision.
Now, McCain voted last month "against a bill that would require the Central Intelligence Agency to abide by the restrictions on interrogating prisoners outlined in the Army Field Manual."

In his decades in office, McCain has an average party unity score in the low 80s. Since he has campaigned for president, his party unity score has skyrocketed (link, link).

2005: 81%
2006: 76%
2007: 90%

THIS IS HIS VERY WORST DOUBLE STANDARD SO FAR.!!!..Proof that he is nothing but a hypocrite,elitest, narcissistic,Wright Rezco loving Anti-American flip flop..He always backsteps every error he makes with his glib tongue...NOT PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL..

PALEEZZZZZE - how more obvious can he be. And regarding his "bitter" statement and all his other speech fopahs - if you are such a great orator why do you always have to back track and explain you meaning. I think his and his very unpatriotic wife are perfectly clear when ever they speak - are these the people you want representing your country?

I think he should just wear a patriotic donkey lapel pin. Just think, it would stem the controversy, show party loyalty and perhaps exhibit a dual meaning for those so inclined.

You would have to be truly hyper-cynical to believe that the Obama campaign staged this. Viewing the video yesterday on MSNBC, it is clear that someone in the audience gave him the pin. We assume that it was a disabled vet because he was not on camera and that is what everyone is saying. Having said that, What the heck was he supposed to do??? Not accept the pin, put it in his pocket, what??????? If he had done anything other than accept the pin and put it on, message boards all across the country would be blowing up about yet "another example" of how Obama hates America, white people, soldiers, veterans, the disabled and everybody else. Give me a break and put this one to bed. I am anxious to hear those who do not like Obama put a nice little spin on this.

...and who, by the way, still doesn't wear a flag lapel pin! And no one, NO ONE, has created any flap over it or called on McCain to wear one! What hypocritical idiot bigots!!! Go Obama go!!!!!

This is actually the only article I've found in the news that doesn't report, in detail, the fact that a vet was witnessed by a lot of folks giving Obama the pin. Some of the articles even record the breif conversation between Obama and the vet. It's not spin, it's just the part of the story that you unfortunately were to (lazy?) busy to research.

In light of the fact that Obama got pinned by a vet at the event, what honestly would you proscribe he do? He could do what many politicians would do, dishonor the gesture the vet made so as not to get tagged in the press, Or he could do what he always us, forsake the easy, politically expedient thing, in favor of doing the right thing.

I couldn't agree more with Obama that shortly after 9/11, a new hyperpatriotism among American conservatives emerged, and began to use frequent and high-profile displays of our colors as some sort of hollow announcement of one's dedication to the US.

Real patriotism does not need flag pins, and most Americans understand that. If you want pandering, look at Democrats who don't bother to call neo-con idiocy for what it is, and play into it for purple state votes.

Obama is actually discussing the matter like an adult. Of course, any adults who refuse to think more than two-dimensionally just find it "elitist". What a crock.

Wearing that pin makes him a patriot, like wearing a pants suit makes Hilary a man, and like submiting a shallow article makes Andrew Malcolm a writer. You are reaching sir.

Putting an American flag lapel pin means that Obama is bitter about something. What is next? Maybe he will get rid of is racist and hateful minister, go to a church that preaches love and togetherness, and get a gun and go hunting. That should get him some more votes.

Give Hillary the nomination and get on with it. At least we don't have to second guess her motives or background. A bird (English slang for woman) in the hand is better than two in the McBush. (just a bit of levity for the afternoon).

More insulting to our country's brave men and women was GWB getting off the plane on the carrier dressed as an air force pilot and saying "Mission Accomplished."

"THIS IS HIS VERY WORST DOUBLE STANDARD SO FAR.!!!" -Kaye

Okay, I'll agree with that. And if placing a two inch metal pin of our Flag is the worst double standard he's committed, then he's BY FAR the best candidate available.

Obama for President!

I fully support Sen Obama, but i must say that he had it right the first time.

I would never wear ANY garment or jewelry that had the American flag on it, not because i am not patriotic but because i think it trivializes what the flag stands for and it degrades it.

All flags are meant to be flown so that you must look upwards to see them. Turning a flag into a tee shirt or a pin is disgraceful. The flag is our rallying symbol of union, and the sacrafice of those that helped create and defend it.

Only military personel need an American flag on their uniforms and that is for ID reasons only, no one else needs to be wearing one. FLAGS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE WORN THEY ARE MEANT TO BE FLOWN.

Ok. I'll throw out what the Loons on the Left always say about everything other candidate:
Panderer!!!!

Posted by: John D | April 16, 2008 3:24 PM


Sure, John D..whatever you say...

quoted from the article:

"According to a touching-possibly-true-but-then-again-you-never-know-in-big-time-politics report circulating on several blogs during the night, the pin was reportedly given to Obama Tuesday morning by a disabled veteran whose name nobody seems to know right now."
"So naturally not wanting to hurt the vet's feelings, how could the 46-year-old Obama do anything other than immediately put the pin back on his public lapel for as long as necessary?"

Gee, that sure sounds like pandering

At the risk of egging the child on, a John E. reply: McCain never said that wearing a flag pin "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism."

There's tons of video out there of Obama explaining why he doesn't wear it. So in that context this is nothing but hypocritical. McCain has never once tied his patriotism to whether or not he wears a pin.

According to a touching-possibly-true-but-then-again-you-never-know-in-big-time-politics report circulating on several blogs during the night, the pin was reportedly given to Obama Tuesday morning by a disabled veteran whose name nobody seems to know right now.

Well, CNN actually has the video of Obama actually mentioning the disabled vet's name and actually waving to the disabled vet who waves back from his wheelchair as Obama dons the pin. It's here:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/15/obama-dons-flag-pin-once-again/

But I suppose it would be too much bother to actually look for some facts that might undermine your snarky spin.

Aren't you people in the media just the slightest bit embarrassed when you're just plain wrong?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/04/15/obama.flagpin.cnn

To Depot Jim...If he would have done the things you precribe at the beginning it just might HAVE HELPED him..Course we all know he would not hunt because he might get his hands and pretty suits dirty.....................Somehow I doubt Michelle would like to fry up deer meat anyway.....He will never get elected so it really doen't matter................

Well gee, maybe next week he'll be goin' huntin' in rural Pennsylvania, and attend a pot luck at a Catholic church!

Hopefully his casserole won't be too bitter.

He's a hypocrite, a common political panderer, an Ivy-League snob, ...and NOT ready for the presidency!

FLAGS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE WORN THEY ARE MEANT TO BE FLOWN.

Posted by: Bitter in the Flatlands | April 16, 2008 4:32 PM

I agree 100%. Look at the amount of posts over one of the most stupid things I've ever seen. People losing their homes...no health care...4000 young men and women dead in Iraq....and these total idiots think a flag pin means something. This is disgusting.

While the Hillary cheerleaders are busy pushing this stupid flag pin non-story, this story is just now breaking.

Turns out that Hillary is angry and bitter at all of the angry and bitter white working class people in America..

"Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995 - 'Screw'Em":

"In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach".

"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

While I wouldn't expect those supporting other candidates to actually look into why he wore the pin, I would expect more from a news source.

The pin was given to him before he spoke by a disabled vet. If you are going to talk about it, at least mention that crucial fact.

Imagine the blog post if he would have rejected the offer from a disabled vet.

Please provide ALL the facts in your "news"

To you Obama ites....If you question McCain's patriotism you're lurking in some real murkey water.....there is plenty not to like about McCain, but his patriotism should never be questioned...

Try GOOGLE, a great invention:

The candidate hasn't been seen wearing a flag pin since his explanation was made. But today at a town hall meeting with veterans in Washington, PA, Obama was given a flag pin by a Vietnam veteran.

Philip Fiumara, an undecided voter, gave Obama the pin in the rope line right before the event started.

On stage, Obama donned the pin.

"It is a flag pin," Obama explained, "I think I'll go ahead and put that on. Because I appreciate your service."

I watched that speech and the Vet in question was in a scooter beside the stage. Obama even said his name and then made sure he said it correctly. Mr. Malcolm, you are a disappointing journalist... I deserve your job.

PS- NEVER start a report with "OMG". Are you a 10 year old texting a friend?? Honestly.

If you believe that disabled vet story then, wow, you sure are gullible...

How do we know that this vet wasn't planted to reintroduce Obama to the pin since he needs it now; he can't be bitter and walk around without a pin. It would make it look like he's bitter at america....and what was this vet thinking "hey I know how to get him to wear the pin...he can't refuse it form a vet."....Anyway it is common knowegd that patrotism will be a big issue in the election, that the Republicans, for whatever reason, have a better time connecting on that level, and that polls strongly favored Hillary in that respect.- she was deemed phony but also made people feel proud. What would you want him to do- I didn't know the pin changes meaning depending on who gives it to you. He should have been wearing it from the begining, instead of using it to make a case for how much it's too Bush-like.

I watched that speech and the Vet in question was in a scooter beside the stage. Obama even said his name and then made sure he said it correctly. Mr. Malcolm, you are a disappointing journalist... I deserve your job.

PS- NEVER start a report with "OMG". Are you a 10 year old texting a friend?? Honestly.

I think Obama is the realization of the "Manchurian Candidate".

At the risk of egging the child on, a John E. reply: McCain never said that wearing a flag pin "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism."

There's tons of video out there of Obama explaining why he doesn't wear it. So in that context this is nothing but hypocritical. McCain has never once tied his patriotism to whether or not he wears a pin.

Posted by: Jeff | April 16, 2008 4:37 PM

Jeffy,

McCain trys to tell us how patriotic he is everyday.

He has capitolized on being a bad navel student and a terrible pilot like no one else ever has.

Could Barry be worried about the “patriotism” issue?

I can’t imagine why-even though his preacher-advisor-friend God dammed America, his wife Michelle is (finally) proud of her country.

What has happened to the Tribune. The Swamp is exactly that.....To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

The Swamp is obviously put together be a few right wing nut jobs who can only focus on small, meaningless, topics.

I have a flag pin.
Sometimes I wear it sometimes I don't.
Get over this nonsense people.
Obama should not have to defend this nor should McCain Clinton, Bush, Joe Shmo, or the man on the moon. People have gone mad.

FLAGS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE WORN THEY ARE MEANT TO BE FLOWN.

Posted by: Bitter in the Flatlands | April 16, 2008 4:32 PM

I agree 100%. Look at the amount of posts over one of the most stupid things I've ever seen. People losing their homes...no health care...4000 young men and women dead in Iraq....and these total idiots think a flag pin means something. This is disgusting.

there is plenty not to like about McCain, but his patriotism should never be questioned...

Posted by: Karl G | April 16, 2008 5:07 PM

Although I agree...why does the right feel they have the right to question everyone else?

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!

Is this the best smear job the Hillarybots and the Repubs could come up with today?!?!

They must be running out of new material....

Gee, that's how you'll get better coveragefor your candidate--trash the reporter! He wasn't lazy--he just missed the latest piece of staged Obama theatre. How did the TWO CNN cameras happen to be in position to get the vet in the wheelchair give the pin to Mr. Rezko, er, Obama?
Now that his popularity is tanking (and I do NOT buy the gallup poll that states otherwise) in PA--the mainstream t.v. media is realizing how much MONEY they'll lose.
They are the ones who need this campaign to go right up til the convention.
And Obama certainly was realizing how DUMB it was to pander to the anti-war crowd, who apparently watch symbols and things a lot more than actual
(wait for it)
VOTES in the Senate (he keeps voting to fund the war he says he's so against.
Don't blame a print guy for missing the theatre that put the prop onto his lapel.
And Keith--women don't wear pant suits to 'become men' you neanderthal--we wear them so we can outrun our silly season-loving wanna be statesmen.
Gotta go make deadline (and sometimes we don't have all the details, but the deadlines don't wait). That's what it's like havin' a job where you deal with words all day.

Incredible... this guy is full of it, plain and simple. If you can't see that, your a moron.

Who cares want he wears???
As long as he brings back jobs and stop this unnessary killing war and stop the Bush family from making their oil friends richer as well as shut up that Hill of beans Hillary who's husband voted in Nafta as she sat on boards of directors pushing nafta and jobs out of America all for profit to the rich! Wake up people and see the Bush wack, Hillary Beans, John 'Bush' McCain for what they are... Groupies of the rich! They don't care about anyone without a title behind them.... GO OBAMA !!! You have my vote and every vote of the working class who has half a brain... The rest of you can keep paying higher taxes and gas, food etc etc... if you vote for the corporate owned puppets.... ya bunch of follow the media blind no thinkers....

The American Flag does not represent pro-war sentiment, it represents pro-American sentiment!

Obama earned the right to wear that pin. It took courage to oppose the war and the blind nationalism that was all-the-rage at the time. America would have been much better off if the flag-waving nationalists hadn't stampeded the country into this disastrous war.

You may recall Obama removed the lapel flag pin last fall as something of a gesture of independence if you're an Obama fan -- or an act of defiant antiwar non-patriotism if you're not.

Do sentences like this get edited before upload, or do they just go from coffee shop to weblog directly? Punctuation and grammar aside, can't Obama fans support the gesture because it is anti-war, anti-America, and defiant? When are these qualities necessarily bad?

Good work Andrew Malcolm, hope you don't actually get a paycheck for this.

Toooo Late Obama.

To Ron....There are lots of us out here that are as you say ae TRULY HYPER-CYNICAL and do believe the whole thing was staged...........Next???.What makes you think you are right and we are all wrong??Oh, that's right..You are for Obama..We're not...HRC for President...

obama will pander to any/all groups - even to the extent of 'bowling like a pansy' to entice the 'typical white person' or wearing a flag (finally) to con veterans... sickening.

Yay, another non-issue. Wearing your own pin is different from wearing one that was given to you.

Does this article really start with "OMG"? Are we supposed to take this seriously?

Oh yeah!!..I don't like Michelle calling us "folks" either..She is so good at talking down...
Posted by a Typical White Person.

Wow, the flag pin issue surfaces again. As crucial as flag pins are to America's future, I'd still rather talk about Iraq, health care, the economy, green energy, or even global warming.

Kaye: You must REALLY have an inferiority complex if you think going hunting is a prerequisite to being president!!! What about the price of gas, groceries, etc.? As far as what Michelle cooks...what do YOU CARE??? GET A LIFE and go to college, if you're ACCEPTED with that ATTITUDE and then maybe you can live that kind of life, too!!!

And the more important question for Curtis and Jeff....
Does he wear flag boxers?

Many people might consider him a hypocrite, but he is a Modern Liberal and I doubt he even cares if he is considered a hypocrite. (He may not even know about the concept.) For Modern Liberals, the only thing that is important is to win.

For voters, we need to take measure of things like this and see if it jives with what he has said. By this standard, he's a hypocrite and he doesn't care about the pin because he really dislikes the country. (Since he keeps dissing various segments of the population, has hung around Rev Wright and his anti-American sermons so long, and taking into account his wife's anti-American comments, it's pretty clear that he not only doesn't understand America, he really dislikes it.)

I wonder if it's an American Flag pin or a God Da*n America pin?

The bottom line is Obama is a phony and we shouldn't let him or his Socialist friends anywhere near the Oval Office.

Liberals don't care about being patriotic. They want to let every illegal in. Keep the Government from tracking terrorist. Obama is not a patriot. He cares more about being in Africa or Somalia than in the United States. He took off the pin because his Racist Pastor was anti-American. Obama needed the pastor to get the blacks to vote for him. Obama knows that his racist anti-American, anti-White pastor would not like him wearing it.

Obama is a liar. He is a racist. Even his own wife is not proud of this country.

How can a man that listened to racist comments about a country the his pastor hates, care about people who live here? He can't.

Obama should be ashamed to call himself an American. We here in Illinios are ashamed of him. He will not be President.

White People unite. Don't let a Racist be President. We can keep him out. Obama could get 100% of the Black vote and still lose by a landslide.

Even Martin Luther Kings Grand Daugher is against Obama. The Founder of BET is against Obama. He is not fit to be President. Don't let it happen.

By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama often boasts he is "the only candidate who isn't taking a dime from Washington lobbyists," yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show.....

So much for a "different" kind of politics. It seems to me that Obama is doing his politics as usual, the only difference is Obama has a glib tongue.

As for the flag pin - that's a non-issue. Who cares if you wear it or not. For example, just because a person wears a cross or doesn't wear a cross is no measurement of that person's Christian faith. The same is true of any symbol, i.e flag. Wearing a symbol is nothing more than an adornment, and does not measure a person's devotion to one's faith or country.

Why, after all this time, has wearing an American flag lapel pin suddenly taken on enough significance to warrant this change of heart? Why did it require (assuming they're telling the truth) being bestowed upon him by a disabled veteran for Obama to come to the conclusion that it's not such an empty gesture after all? Or is it still an empty gesture meant to stimulate the pavlovian dogs of middle America?

Too little, too late - Who is he trying to kid? He and his wife do not love or like the U.S.A. They are only in it for the money! Nothing else!

I heard it was a crippled 4 year old girl who was a Iraqi war vet that gave him the pin.

What kind of oranges was McCain studying in "navel" school, John E.? God, I love your military intelligence and watching you shoot yourself in the foot with it.Glee.

Which was it Obama stashed during that hastily called trip to the Caribbean?
= = =
Hey Jilly, tell Angellight and Julie Mack and the other kids travelin' with the messiah hoping to get a job in the white house that attacking HIlary right now is exactly what Howard Dean asked the campaigns not to do.
Hilary's been a class act.
Not so Obama. When he issues his W.O.R.M. statements (what i really meant) he ALWAYS blames Hilary for it making the news-- and it's always false! It is always a news story ahead of time.
rezko=Obama=Mccain.
He's a spoiler.
I think he's crooked and you don't wanna see it.
It would be a form of withdrawal from the messianic training the Obamas made you endure. (The campaign's looking more and more like a bad cult--the worse thing in the Mayhill Fowler piece was the bit where he said he wanted 'new people' to replace the party stalwarts. He doesn't mention anything about stolen elections. And he's a closet sexist who won't admit he likes his women a certain demure way).
Wake up.
Why you think he took that trip to the caribbean right about now--with all those secret service guys to hurry through the security? Taking cash? Documents about Rezko and god knows what?
Read a newspaper. Get off the blogs and live your life!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-court-story,0,7957753.htmlstory
- - - -
- Witness tells of mysterious ‘consultant’
- Investment firm received contract from Caribbean.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-court-story,0,7957753.htmlstory
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- Witness tells of mysterious ‘consultant’
- Investment firm received contract from Caribbean.
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To Anonymous....the disasterous war you speak of...the last time I checked the Sears Tower was still standing....not bad fighting on their home turf is it...???

wow...all these posts about a falg pin.....what a joke we have become.

Flag pin or no flag pin, NObama is a rich & snobbish jerk who approves of legalized murder (abortion) of American citizens with EVERY right to life.

Talk about much ado about nothing! Me thinks many are demanding from the candidates something they are able to do themselves - engage in meaningful debate about crucial issues affecting present and future generations.

OMNG?? How 'bout "God help us all"?

Talk about much ado about nothing! Me thinks many are demanding from the candidates something they are unable to do themselves - engage in meaningful debate about crucial issues affecting present and future generations.

OMNG?? How 'bout "God help us all"?

Bill, were you really ever under the impression that the Swamp was about intelligent debate on important issues? C'mon. Don't you have some McCain quotes you should be taking out of context?

wow, all of these post from bill r about the flag pin issue telling us there are a lot of flag pin posts. it's almost like all of those posts from bill r about the bitterness issue telling us there are a lot of bitter posts. or all those posts from bill r about the racism issue telling us there are a lot of racist posts....and the beat goes on.... bill r has come a long way. define 'we'...

The saddest commentary isn't whether or not he wore "the pin."

It's where these pins are made thesed days. Try finding any flag pins, or just about anything else manufactured here in the U.S. and by Americans.

After viewing the video I hope this Andrew Malcolm feels as foolish and he looks.
To make an issue of a non-issue and be flat out wrong in the process is not cool. No, it's real pathetic.

Jeff, John D, get real!!

It was given to him by a veteram that asked him to put it on. I see nothing hypocritical in that. It was the "polite" thing to do.

You guys are the hypocrites and panderers. If he had refused to put it on, you would have clobberred him for showing disrespect to a veteran.

Get lost you neo-con scumbags.

Don't you have some McCain quotes you should be taking out of context?

Posted by: Jeff | April 17, 2008 12:21 AM

How about...Bomb Bomb Iran. Was this taken out of context?

Posted by: what!? | April 17, 2008 12:34 AM

Your right what? I sometimes get caught up in the stupidity of this type of politics. I just get amazed that these are the issues people care about, but hey...I have a lot of time on my hands...so....

Have you seen the new lapel pin that Hillary is now wearing?

It's a white flag!

Obama can state over and over again he has patriotic feelings in his heart, but he could simply solve the issue by wearing the 99 cent flag pin. Unless he really objects to it, and then he had better say why, because McCain's POW buddies are not going to sit still.

he wore it because he was forced to two days ago, but it was noticealby missing last night?

Only in America is wearing a 99 cent flag pin (made in China) considered a measure of patriotism.

Good Grief! After 'we the people' get through tearing these presidential candidates apart, no human in their right mind will every wish to run for President of the United States again.

The Truth will set you free, yes you who will not accept, will not believe, cannot see that Obama and others like him are OVER DUE!! Time for a change and a colorful one I PRAY!!!!!!!

The Truth will set you free, yes you who will not accept, will not believe, cannot see that Obama and others like him are OVER DUE!! Time for a change and a colorful one I PRAY!!!!!!!