GOP congressman slams Obama on missing flag pin

[anigbrowl]

Congressman Jack Kingston questions Obama's patriotism for not wearing the an American flag pin...


...while not wearing an American flag pin. Sheer genius.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/25/hypocrite-or-unpatriotic-you-decide/

[redwitch]

1. What a moran.

:eyes:

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. How dare they point out the hypocrisy! I am mock outraged!

Seriously, between this moran and SonnyBubba (the guv) praying for rain as an answer to our drought on the capitol steps...

We are in a race with ourselves to the bottom. My husband and I are looking for jobs and a house in another state now.

[rodeodance]

3. Foreplay for upcoming GOP playbook.

[LSparkle]

9. Roll that footage of McCain ... WITHOUT his flag pin ...

[Windy]

23. If that's all they got, bring it on. Lets see, whip out the pic of the repub noms at debate

with NO flag pin!!! Including McCain.

These people are just embarassing!

[zbdent]

39. that won't be all they got ... despite being tombstoned, they're probably

trolling DU for ammo ...

:eyes:

[City Lights]

4. If he had a brain in his head it would rattle.

He's embarrassingly stupid.

[MadBadger]

5. Jack Kingston was a slimeball on Bill Maher

saying that Obama didnt say the Pledge and repeatedly saying Barack Hussein Obama

[Dhalgren]

7. Barack Hussein Obama is his name.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Mmhmm.

And it's race-baiting to repeatedly point it out.

:shrug:

[Dhalgren]

34. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. There is nothing wrong with his

name. It is a good name, one he should be proud of. I cannot believe that "smart" Democrats are allowing this to be controlled by the RW smear bastards. Obama and we should use his three names all the time. This is ridiculous to allow this to become an issue. It is his name - that is all it is. I cannot believe that mature, adult people are reacting to this in such a school-yard manner...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

37. Willie Horton was released from prison.

That's a fact.

Of course, the context in which is was pointed out was race-baiting.

I do not believe mature, adult people would play dumb on the issue.

[Dhalgren]

40. Okay. So you tell me how Obama should handle this "delicate"

issue? Some one uses his name - should a surrogate immediately cry' "Bigotry "Racism!"? Because some one used his...name? His real, honest to god name? People who are reacting to his name as though it were a curse are the ones who are showing insensitivity on this subject. If he cannot have his middle name spoken in public, then we are all in huge trouble...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. I think surrogates should point out racists, yes.

Racist should be exposed and shunned everywhere.

I think Obama himself has better things to do then respond to bigots.

[Dhalgren]

43. So you really believe that if his name is ever used in public, it is

a racist smear? I just don't know what to say to that. Obama cannot deny his name or run from it. This is absolutely the wrong way to deal with this issue...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

45. I think the way you're using it is, yes. Obviously.

Like many other people have pointed out, nobody talks about the other candidates middle names.

[Dhalgren]

47. We are just on completely different wave-lengths, here.

I think that to accept that any use his name is a racist smear is, itself, a kind of back-handed racism.

William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, James Earl Carter, Richard Milhous Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Dwight David Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Barack Hussein Obama. I think that his name stacks up there very nicely. I refuse to allow the mouth-breathers and the inbred moronic few to dictate to me how I view anything. Senator Obama has a fine, good name, one he should be proud of.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

48. Oh I don't think we are.

You know full well that you're race baiting, and we both know it.

[Dhalgren]

51. You are absolutely wrong. I am not, at all race baiting. I wouldn't do that.

I have not supported Obama or Clinton, but I honestly think that viewing the use of Obama's name as automatically a racist smear, is the totally wrong way to go. Calling people bigots or racists for using Obama's name is the worst thing in the world his campaign or his supporters could do - and I truly believe that. If this is the tact that the Obama campaign is going to take, this will be a festering sore from now until November. This needs to be put to bed and since Hussein is his name, it must be dealt with in some way other than crying "racism" every time.

Good luck! :hi:

[The Anti-Bush]

18. What is Hillary's middle name?

How about John McCain?
How aobut John Kerry?
How about John Edwards?
How about Dennis Kucinich?
How about Mike Gravel?
How about Chris Dodd?

When have you EVER heard any of them named with their middle name on TV? I have NEVER heard any of their middle names on TV.

It is said to connect him to Saddam Hussein. You know that. Don't pretend to be ignorant.

[Dhalgren]

46. Man, it is about how to handle it - and crying "racism" is not the way.

And I am quite sure that you are not pretending, either...

[MadBadger]

19. I know you understand and are not this thick.

[Dhalgren]

32. I know that to try and make the claim that using his name - HIS NAME -

is inherently racist will hurt him in the long run. As I have said repeatedly, he, and we, need to get in front of this and stop acting as though Obama should be ashamed of his name! He has a fine name and only idiots and morons will ever have any problem with it. When he becomes President, his middle name will become widely known as most President's middle names are. To act like no one is ever going to hear his name or that he should run from it or claim bigotry against anyone who uses it will not work well for him. He has to embrace it, own it, and get it behind him the sooner the better. We all should start using his three names all the time - make it so that it means nothing at all except his middle name. Making a big deal out of it looks bad for him and Democrats in general.

[Cha]

25. That's right ..it is his name and

the slime balls who have nothing will use that has their mantra..oh, and bitch that Obama's not wearing a flag pin made in China when he musta left his on his other coat.

[Dhalgren]

35. Hussein, Hussein, Hussein, Hussein! It is a good name. Obama

should not be ashamed of it and neither should you. If there are idiots somewhere, who over their drool say bad things about Obama because of his name, then let them. They are beneath contempt at any rate...

[Cha]

36. I'm not ..so you have that wrong.

[Dhalgren]

38. Good! My bad! Here is my suggestion for a bumper sticker:

"Barack Hussein Obama For President! Because I'm Not Stupid!"

[ellacott]

27. I had to turn off Bill Maher

He was repeating so many false things and no one on that panel, including Bill, refuted him.

[GodlessBiker]

6. Yes, as one poster on that site correctly concluded, Kingston is a douche bag.

[polichick]

8. Typical Republican hypocrisy. nt

[Greyskye]

10. You just can't make this stuff up!

I swear that the GOP is going to put The Onion out of business!

[BOSSHOG]

12. I'm a Veteran

I did not serve my country for 24 years to force someone to wear a pin on their lapel. Wearing a pin does not make one patriotic but being a republican sure does make one a fucking idiot.

[jlake]

13. Typical Republican Douchebag. Unfortunately, there are alot of people who buy into this stuff.

[Cant trust em]

14. Wearing a flag pin makes you a patriot?

This is grasping at straws is I've ever seen it. Who gives a flying fuck if someone wears a pin or not?

The hypocrisy is funny also.

[MaineDem]

15. I've had it up to here with this stupid flag pin

I remember when it was considered bad to wear anything having to do with the flag.

This flag pin thing is GOP code, I swear. it shows you're part of the club. It's ludicrous.

[beachmom]

16. I e-mailed him and gave him a piece of my mind.

I'm in GA, although not his district. It really is depressing when you realize such a total right wing hack has to be addressed "Congressman".

Too funny on the flag pin. I mentioned that to him in my e-mail.

[GodlessBiker]

24. Me, too, even though I am in NY. It felt gooooooood.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

17. McCain doesn't wear one of those lapel pins n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

20. Good to know they have their priorities in order....NOT!

[goldcanyonaz]

21. But, he's probably wearing Flag underwear.

:rofl:

[FlyingSquirrel]

26. Got 'em from Apollo Creed

[Az_lefty]

22. GOP - the party of political correctness

they've become a bunch or goose stepping fools.

[tabasco]

28. Maybe the republicans should wear armbands to show how patriotic they are.

[truebrit71]

29. That is simply priceless!!! What an asshat!!

:rofl:

[cooolandrew]

30. Right we need banners saying "stick your flap pin up your..."

Lets go to work Barack supporters let's ridicule their BS. =)

[MaineDem]

31. Does Hillary wear one?

Maybe it's a guy thing.

:eyes:

[yardwork]

33. This kind of stupidity ought to close down the Republican Party.

[City Lights]

41. Let's use his birth name: John Heddens Kingston.

Fuck this "Jack" shit.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

44. On Stephanie Miller yesterday...

They were reading from some official government source on flag etiquette. The regulations state that a flag is not to be worn as a decoration, and that only military personnel, police officers and some selected others, may display an American flag on their clothing, and then only in the form of a patch.

SO A FLAG PIN IS FRIGGIN' UNPATRIOTIC, YOU MORANS!

[marions ghost]

49. I'm sure Obama doesn't wear a flag pin

--in order to distinguish himself from the hucksters, thieves and criminals known here as the BFEE, or Bushco. Who wants to be associated with that band of hijackers and their shallow cronies & idiot followers, who insist that that a little flag pin indicates their level of patriotism?

Look what damage has been done by those who wear the flag pin. Nothing else could say "change" more
clearly than NOT wearing that emblem of membership in the nefarious neo-conservative fraternity.

[Vinca]

50. Uh Oh - Saint Ronnie is not wearing a pin.

In fact, I've been searching the Internets and haven't found one picture of him with a flag pin. And all this time I thought he was patriotic. You just never know.

[bullwinkle428]

52. Kingston is the same piece of crap that attacked Keith Ellison (first Muslim congressman)

shortly before he was sworn into Congress last year, so he's certainly consistent about his bigotry!