Pins Replace ‘True Patriotism,’ Obama Says

Obama on American flag: ‘I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest’USA Today
An eagle-eyed reporter for the ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, noticed something missing from Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., lapels.

“You don’t have the American flag pin on. Is that a fashion statement?” the reporter asked, at the end of a brief interview with Obama on Wednesday. “Those have been on politicians since Sept. 12, 2001.”

The standard political reply to that question might well have been, “My patriotism speaks for itself.”
But Obama didn’t say that.
Instead the Illinois senator answered the question at length, explaining that he no longer wears such a pin, at least in part, because of the Iraq War.

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. “Instead,” he said, “I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.”

The Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp blog reports that after it got several questions about the pin story, the Obama campaign released a statement from the senator.

“Patriotism to me, isn’t what you wear on your lapel,” he said. “It’s what you carry in your heart. I don’t need a pin to certify my love for this country.”

In addition, The Swamp says that Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said: “Like many Americans, he wore one after 9/11, but hasn’t worn one in years.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Hussein Obama is no patriot. We know where the loyalties of a madrassah educated muslim lie. Obviously, wearing a pin is not “true patriotism”; it is only a symbol. do you think that Obama realizes that taking it off is a symbol, too? And not of patriotism, either.

“I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest,” he said in the interview. “Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism.”

What Obama IS saying is this:
…….because it isn’t great already. It isn’t great, though California’s economy alone is the size of Germany’s. It isn’t great because we’ve freed over 59 million people around the world through force of arms. It isn’t great because the United States became the breeding ground of innovation for the great minds of the world, who flocked here from their situations abroad and changed the world. Nope, it won’t be great until you elect my defeatist, blame-the-US-first, flag-hating, race-baiting, demogogue, no-executive-experience, Senator personage from the corrupt socialist republic of Illinois. So, that’s why no flag pin. OK?
Sure Obama, just keep telling us that YOU are the only person that can make this country great.

…..Thank you Lynn for sending this story to me and the lnk.