"I am the flag"

[eyesroll]

http://www.chaplin-nest.com/unkarock/flag.htm

I was poking around my county Republican Party's Web page (I know, I know), and found this link.

<snip>
   I bow to no one!
     I am recognized all over the world.
     I am worshipped I am saluted.
     I am loved I am revered.
     I am respected and I am feared.
<snip>
 Or when I lie in the trembling arms
     of a grieving parent
     at the grave of their fallen son or daughter,
     I am proud.
 </snip>

The flag is worshipped? The flag is proud to be in the arms of a grieving parent? :wtf:

:puke:

[redqueen]

1. Idolatry

Those freeptards should be ashamed. Do they have the capacity to be shamed?

[MissMarple]

2. Sentient flags... go figure.

?

[OhioArtist]

3. Wow

Some people have to much time on their hands.

I think anytime a symbol becomes more important than the ideals it represents, there's something wrong.

[Book Lover]

4. Worshipped?

What, people burn dried plums on the altar of the flag? This rhetoric is getting out of hand.

[redqueen]

7. You missed this part, apparently

"I am worshipped I am saluted."

Not rhetoric. Reporting. :eyes:

[rumguy]

5. I am arrogant

I bow to no one

What a bunch of cornpone schlock!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. As a poem goes, that's crap.

As a political statement goes, it's also crap.
I put the country and the Constitution first before any damn piece of cloth. (Which is why I vote Democratic.)

[robbedvoter]

8. I prefer those wrapping themselves in the Constitution and burning the

flag to those wrapping themselves in the flag and burning the constitution"
(Dunno who said it, but I agree)

[Minstrel Boy]

9. Worship me!

I am respected and I am feared!

[fryguy]

10. effing hate these pukes

they wrap themselves in the flag and piss on the Constitution

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

11. This has been around for awhile...

....its not a new poem.

I dont know,...patriotic sentiment...alot of bathos, but still alot of folks are sentimental about stuff like this, so....hard to really fault.

[Solly Mack]

12. That's just sick

pure and simple...sick.

[JVS]

13. These people are deeply fucked up.

[Brotherjohn]

14. To quote singer/songwriter Roger Manning:

"If the flag had a will of its own, it might just throw ITSELF down onto the ground /
to bring attention /
to all the rotten things done in its name.

There's a lot of lying, a lot of dying /
The American flag stays up all night crying"

[redqueen]

15. Thanks

much better and more relevant that the crap in the OP

[Brotherjohn]

16. Sounds like an argument AGAINST an anti- flagburning amendment!

"I have been burned, torn and trampled
on the streets of countries I have helped set free.
It does not hurt, for I am invincible."

[PfcHammer]

17. last stanza

<snip>
I am used as a poncho

by kid rock
at the superbowl halftime show,
I am a corporate tool.

</snip>

[Christ was Socialist]

18. Are they talking about stars and stripes are the confederate flag lol<nt>