Respeck

[helderheid]

Edited to add:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/bivens_outrage?pid=851

Edited AGAIN to add this:

[EFerrari]

1. He's autographing the flag?

:wtf:

[helderheid]

15. yep!

[seemslikeadream]

2. Is that REAL?

:wow:

[helderheid]

3. YES!

[Fridays Child]

6. If I'm not mistaken, that was shot not too long after the 2000 coup.

In any case, I don't think it's recent. And, yes, as far as I know, it's real. He actually had the unmitigated gall to autograph an American flag, as if it was a symbol of him.

[helderheid]

7. July 23, 2003

[MADem]

10. It's old, but it is still offensive. But what do you expect from a DunceMonkey who uses the symbol

of our nation as BUNTING--that bullshit with a ZILLION fucking flags on a stage is just WRONG, as anyone who knows anything about flag etiquette will tell you.

The GOP started up with that shit--I'd love to see a President come back into the White House who:

--Doesn't use the flag as a decorative accent theme, but instead, puts up just ONE, properly displayed.

--Uses BUNTING if decorative accents are called for.

--Doesn't use gratuitious "Honor Guards" INDOORS at the White House.

--Addresses the nation from the OVAL OFFICE, not from his "ranch/pig-turkey farm" or from a dais mounted on a stage above thousands of cheering "fans."

[krispos42]

4. Make you kinda wish for that 'flag desecration' amendment, doesn't it?

It would be funny for the local fuzz to arrest him and toss him a holding cell, two Secret Service agents next to him on the bunk...

:-)

[ginnyinWI]

5. OMG. k&r n/t

[Richard Steele]

8. Brilliant new meme!

Now I'm gonna have to go put that caption on some stuff!

(edit- respeckommended!)

[helderheid]

9. check this out:

http://lolpresident.com/

[Richard Steele]

11. Now, how did you know I'd enjoy that? lol! nm

[helderheid]

12. hee hee! Lucky guess?

;)

ETA - you should submit your post to them!

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Aw, damn! I thought this was gonna be an Ali G thread...

...it's still great, nonetheless. K&R!:hi:

[helderheid]

14. heh!

[helderheid]

16. From the Washington Post:

THE WHITE HOUSE supports the wrongheaded constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power "to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." Yet in light of an incident last month, Mr. Bush should consider whether he might be the first person jailed should this perennial foolishness -- passed most recently by the House of Representatives earlier this year -- ever become part of the Constitution. Mr. Bush, at a political event in Livonia, Mich., autographed supporters' flags, an apparent violation of an obscure provision of American law that details the respect with which flags should be treated. "The flag," reads the code, "should never have placed upon it . . . any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature." The last time Congress sought to ban flag-burning, in a statute the Supreme Court struck down in 1989, it made a criminal out of anyone who "defaces" a flag -- language Mr. Bush likewise appears to have violated. Never mind the fact that he clearly meant no disrespect; if Congress had the power to criminalize flag desecration, he would at least arguably be indictable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2510-2003Aug29