It's Not Just A Pin
October 04, 2007 12:44 PM
B. Hussain Obama has decided to stop wearing an american flag lapel pin:
Funny, the further away from 9/11 I get, the more patriotic I feel. I guess we are just different types of people. It is not that you have to wear a pin to be patriotic. I don't have one and never wore one, but he did. He wore one as a sign of HIS patriotism. Since then he made the conscious decision to take that pin off, the pin that to him used to represent his patriotism. He took the pin off.
"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...
Funny, the further away from 9/11 I get, the more patriotic I feel. I guess we are just different types of people. It is not that you have to wear a pin to be patriotic. I don't have one and never wore one, but he did. He wore one as a sign of HIS patriotism. Since then he made the conscious decision to take that pin off, the pin that to him used to represent his patriotism. He took the pin off.
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