Oh man, Liet is gonna come in here and absolutely slam Obama for his jingoistic piece of flair. I can't wait!
Can't say I give much of a fuck either way if a politician wears a flag lapel pin (unless it were a Confederate flag).
You're [-]joking[/-] trolling, right? I was going to post a few examples of Obama wearing the flag lapel pin between 2008 and 2012, but as I began searching (and there's a metric fuckton of pictures), I became more depressed as I saw how idiotic the whole issue was. I scanned through the first couple of pages of results on Google, and all I could do was shake my head at how utterly stupid these people were for criticizing someone over a flag lapel pin, as if patriotism is about what you wear rather than your beliefs and actions. Sometimes I think people pick the most inane, foolish, intellectually bankrupt things to throw at someone they don't like. That they get so many people in the supposedly professional news media to lap it up so eagerly is truly depressing.
This is an example of people believing what they want rather than what stands before their very eyes. I'm sorry, I like you, but you are evidently willfully blinding yourself. Here's a picture from one of the 2008 debates: By the way, I agree completely with John and Chad and Liet. Wearing or not wearing a pin on your lapel says absolutely nothing about how you feel about your country. I acknowledge it's part of the uniform we expect to see on our politicians, but it's rather meaningless.
For the record, I don't think President Obama should wear one. They're meaningless displays of patriotism and care about only by yahoo jingoists. Care about the flag? Make sure our armed forces members stop coming home in them.
Oh, don't get started. I mean, don't you understand?! [-]Lapel pins[/-] [-]teleprompters[/-] bumper stickers are serious business!
He should wear the pin when and where he wants to and if he doesn't feel like wearing one today, then he shouldn't. Branding yourself with a symbol means nothing of substance.
I agree but after 9/11 every American politician had to have one, then politicians in places like the UK & Australia had to have them, and before you knew it even Albanian and Iranian politicians had flag lapels. I think I even saw pictures of Thai and Afghan politicians wearing them. A pox on all of their houses. It is banal jingoism if I ever saw it.
Even supposedly anti-nationalist German politicians have been caught wearing flag lapels. If the folks who are ashamed of their own country are wearing them then you know it's a fad which has passed its prime.
Talk about jumping the shark. Even douche bag Canadians are doing it now. If Harper was any more pale he'd be a ring wraith. The red in the flag really does bring out the jaundice in his eyes though.
