Posted on 03/14/2012 5:14:20 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
This really takes the cake! It's one thing if you're a left-wing Democrat and you support Barack Obama, but it's quite another thing to replace the Stars and Stripes with Obama and Stripes. That's right... that's what local Democrats did in Florida. They replaced the stars on the U.S. flag with an image of Obama. What is happening to this country?
As Fox News reports, "An American flag with President Obama's image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county's Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner 'a disgrace.'"
Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn't enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.
"It's absolutely disrespectful," Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. "It's totally ridiculous. To put somebody's picture there, to me, it's a disgrace to do that."
Oh, and here's the kicker... the Obama flag was made in China! What a fitting touch.
The local newspaper covering the story quotes Nancy Hurlbert, the chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party, as saying, "We were given this as a gift. We are proud of our president, we're proud of the United States, and we felt it was time to display that."
Korean War veteran Don Van Beck of Tavares spearheaded the veterans' visit to the Lake County Democratic Headquarters, where he was joined by a dozen veterans and media on the front steps of the Main Street building.
"There are laws against desecrating the flag," Van Beck said, right before he read out loud the federal flag code, public law 344, section 4G to Hurlbert: "The flag should never have placed upon it or any part of it, any marks, insignia, letters, words, figures, designs, picture or drawings of any nature. We would like to ask you to take it down please."
Hurlbert told Van Beck that she wanted to look up the code first.
"Well, we're here. I'll take it down for you," the veteran said.
"No, this is private property. You're not allowed to touch anything. I'll call the police," Hurlbert said.
To Nancy Hurlbert and the other Democrats in Lake County... are you really that crazy? Didn't it occur to ANYONE there that this is the United States of America and NOT the United States of Obama? It's a sad state of affairs when absolutely nothing left-wingers do surprises me any more.
Sorry for the double posts...
This flag looks like something from the Third World—where dictators have their pictures on everything possible,
Yes, exactly.
But isn't that what BO is trying to make America into?
Yup, I’m thinking, in the “good old days” that flag would have been lowered, and whoever put it up would be strung up in it’s place.....
What’s the problem!? Many Presidents put their face on our American flag.
Disgusting!
We’re becoming like the 3rd world shitholes across the globe and it’s just where this regime wants us.
The really tragic part was demonstrated by the dumb b*tch at the dem office. She really believes that it’s ok to deface the flag. She doesn’t even know it’s defacing it; it’s just a slight revision in her infected mind.
How will we ever get our Nation back with people like this in it? (semi-rhetorical).
I prompted a FReep to a local rags poll and we shut them down. (didn't take but a few hundred votes).
For whatever reason, the flag didn't fly long or get any more publicity.
Could’ve been anyone...but yes, there definitely should be an investigation into the matter. If there’s not, then the FL Pubs had better use this to maul the Dems in November...
Oh, I’m not bothered by this. I’m not bothered by this.
HELL YES I’M BOTHERED BY THIS.
Get that smug bastid’s face off MY flag.
The greatest outcome of the Obama Presidency will be the recognition of Democrats for what they really are. A hodgepodge of social deviants, Communists, Fascists, anti-Semites and pro-Muslim totalitarians.
This flag does all Conservatives a favor as did the ‘occupy’ movement. The Democrats are having a much more difficult time at claiming they are not radicals, and that they are not Autocratic Communists.
They are and we know. Obama pulled the mask off the whole sham.
Out country is being destroyed from the inside. This is being done by community organizer nationalist socialists in unions, cultural associations, environmentalists, all who would abandon freedom as a quick fix for perceived problems in each of their formerly solitary camps, now co joined with the other in fascism.... a camp, in a unity of fascists, who think a new age is dawning in America, heralded by Obama , a fascist, and that the future of America requires a revolution and historic justice, the alleged sins of our forefathers shall be paid for with a fascist redistribution of power and wealth , contrary to the Constitution of our nation.
The fascist Utopia is at hand!
This will require that Democrats, and their leftists become active fascists, and they are well on their way to diminishing individual freedoms on every level.
This is exactly what happened in Germany, and in Italy , and in many other nations in the 1920s and 1930s, and it was accomplished by ordinary citizens of the countries involved.Obama is on his way to becomeing the West's pre-eminant fascist dictator, and HE HIDES IT WELL. And now he cannot hide it much longer.
Read it here:
FROM YOUR LINK - GET A BUCKET!
Let us read a few of the comments Obamas fans have made about him. Their unbounded adulation of this totally unknown figure is proof of my claim.
Jon Robin Baitz is the creator of the ABC series “Brothers & Sisters.” He writes:
Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama’s glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones, those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama’s magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor.
RIGHT. IN A NUTSHELL.SOMETHING EVIL THIS WAY COMES!!!
Obama thinks erroneously that patriotic America will knuckle under to him and his henchmen.
Its about time Obama got the public message.
Good application for a barrage of fluorescent green paintballs...
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Jon Robin Baitz is the creator of the ABC series Brothers & Sisters. He writes:
Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obamas glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones, those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obamas magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor.
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Why can't THEY see the truth, its right in front of the sickos who support Obama ( its a kind of blindness, the sickness of a Utopian wet dream IMHO)
Candor, I don’t know...I can only assume they are the cowards who need someone else to make their decisions for them, who want someone to tell them what to do and when to do it, someone who will solve all their problems, and remove any sense of personal responsibility from them...the same cowards who would feed you and I to the wolves (or hope the crocodile eats them last) ... and as such, they have always been amongst us in one guise or another, and will always be with us.
Only THIS time it’s different, it’s far far more dangerous, because islam sees them as THEIR useful idiots, and the result will be carnage, destruction and ultimately ashes.
I don’t know which is more depressing: the fact the Flag is being desecrated or the fact that I am no longer suprised about how low these lib animals or their Fuhrer will sink.
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