Pat Buchanan just mentioned something about a Flag Pin on MSNBC?

[moosen]

What exactly is a flag pin thing and what does it have to do with Obama? I haven't heard about this.

[Unsane]

1. I assume it's about how Obama doesn't wear a USA flag pin on his suit.

[moosen]

2. doesn't everybody in politics wear the flag pin?

[Unsane]

3. no

it's a stupid rwing email kind of story. Totally idiotic. Obama explained why he doesn't wear one, and it made a lot of sense. Something about how he prefer real patriotism to merely wearing flag pins.

[moosen]

4. it also leaves Obama open to huge RW attacks

[Unsane]

8. Someone who votes against Obama because of a flag pin wasn't going to vote for him anyway

[elixir]

17. No, it's about the idiot MSM. They'll take the stupid suit pin thing and run w/ it.

FYI, I'm sure you've all seen the video of Obama, Clinton and some other folks at an outdoor rally and Obama doesn't cross his heart when someone was singing the Star Spangled Banner. They'lll pull that beauty out when they want crucify him on the "patriotic" thing.

[gmudem]

9. Sounds very plantish

"Huge" attacks about a lapel pin? Gimme a break.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Boo hoo...

People are sick of the propaganda. If anything, people find it refreshing.

We need to stop acting like we're afraid of "being open to right wing attacks." Who gives a shit. Fuck 'em.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Go and fetch your Tu-Tu......

you are so afraid of the RW, until it's funny, actually!

Obama will be more than able to articulate that Patriotism is opposing a dumb war that kills hundreds of thousands and costs trillions. Not a fonky piece of Jewelry!

[Oak2004]

21. I wish someone would let him know about this pin:

http://www.pinsforpatriots.com/constitution-goldplated.html

It's my choice in patriotic pins.

[janetblond]

6. I've got my TV on ...

Hillary doesn't have on a flag pin.
So?
What's his point?
You're not an "American" if you don't wear a flag pin?

[brooklynite]

5. Obama announced awhile back that he was going to stop...

...because he though it was being used only for political symbolism

[Barack_America]

7. I'm reminded of the "Red Ribbon" Seinfeld episode.

That was a great episode.

Good times, good times.

[Ellipsis]

20. "WHO WON'T WEAR THE FLAG PIN?" That sprang into my head too.

Obama commented on why he doesn't wear the flag pin a couple months back.

[spinbaby]

14. Why should he wear a flag pin?

As far as I'm concerned, the flag pin may as well be a label that says, "Hi there, I'm a cynical Republican politician."

[Endangered Specie]

10. Something every politicial "has to wear"

otherwise you are a traitor/terrorist...


By the way, the North Koreans have the same thing
(everyone by law has to wear a gov't issued lapel pin)

[blogslut]

12. Fuck that squinty-eyed old toad

He so wants to release his inner Pat. I hope he does it soon.

[elizm]

15. Nice try but give it up...it's not going to work.

Pathetic, ridiculous, and useless.

[Raine]

16. Does Hillary wear one

I see she has something on her left lapel (can't tell what it is) but I've never seen a flag pin on her either. Really I don't give a shit, the whole thing is STUPID!

[goldcanyonaz]

18. Yes, she does.

[KoKo]

19. I'm not necessarily a Clinton fan...but she doesn't wear a "Flag Nazi America Pin"

on her pantsuits.

[Raine]

25. If she wants to...good for her

if she doesn't...good for her.

[janetblond]

22. Hillary NOT wearing a flag pin ...

So what!!

[Raine]

24. That's just it

I don't care one way or the other, wear one, don't wear one. No big deal.

[apocalypsehow]

23. Buchanan used to work for Tricky Dick, and it was Nixon who

started the whole "flag pin in the lapel" thing back during the Vietnam War to distinguish between the "good" Americans who blindly supported it, and the "bad" Americans who protested it. I see Pat hasn't forgotten how to play the nationalism cards his old corrupt boss first mastered.