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Obama Caught in Lapel Flag Lie
newsmax.com ^ | April 18, 2008 | staff

Posted on 04/18/2008 6:19:50 PM PDT by kellynla

Hillary Clinton got caught in a lie when she said she had dodged sniper fire during a 1996 visit to Bosnia. Now her Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has been caught in a “sniper fire” lie of his own.

During Thursday’s debate in Pennsylvania, Obama was asked why he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin, as do many other politicians as well as servicemen and law enforcement officials.

“I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins,” he responded.

“That is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with.”

But Obama did indeed declare that he does not wear flag pins, Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times noted.

During a campaign stop in Iowa last October, a reporter asked Obama why he wasn’t wearing a flag pin to express solidarity with 9/11 victims.

This is what Obama said back then: “You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. 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 important to our national security. I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demlies; flag; flagpin; obama; patriotism
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Like all Lefties...if the mouth is moving, you can bet there's a lie coming out of it. LMAO
1 posted on 04/18/2008 6:19:50 PM PDT by kellynla
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Breaking News: Obama caves! Flag pin returns to his coat lapel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002696/posts


2 posted on 04/18/2008 6:21:37 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

You know after all this if he wears it he doesn’t want to. I rather have him not wear the flag. It soils it.


3 posted on 04/18/2008 6:24:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: kellynla; Fred Nerks; F15Eagle

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4 posted on 04/18/2008 6:27:38 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

LOL — good point!


5 posted on 04/18/2008 6:29:29 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: kellynla

I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE MY LIES

6 posted on 04/18/2008 6:29:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: kellynla

The problem with lying is remembering your lies.


7 posted on 04/18/2008 6:30:19 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: kellynla

All the while he isn’t wearing the pin. He’s a real piece of ........... work.


8 posted on 04/18/2008 6:31:47 PM PDT by eyedigress (If you aren't voting who cares about your opinion.)
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To: plain talk

That requires help from satan, which might be confusing to him.


9 posted on 04/18/2008 6:33:06 PM PDT by eyedigress (If you aren't voting who cares about your opinion.)
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To: george76

Excellent.


10 posted on 04/18/2008 6:36:02 PM PDT by BIV (a republican is not a republic; a democrat is not democratic)
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To: kellynla
Looks as if Operation Chaos can move on to the next story...LOL

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11 posted on 04/18/2008 6:37:40 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()... Cevapi & Slivovitz for everyone....()
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To: kellynla

It’s really tough to believe that the Democrats couldn’t find anyone better than Billary or Obama? We have over 300 million people here for pete’s sake and we couldn’t find better? A lieing,screaming, bobbing head witch and a half white, flag hating nut? Where’s George Patton when you need him? Does this country even make those guys any more?


12 posted on 04/18/2008 6:43:29 PM PDT by RC2
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To: kellynla

...and it really doesn’t matter...’cause Bush and Cheney are satan.

Hypocrats don’t even hear what Obamalamadingdong (or Shrillary) says.

Jay Leno’s jaywalkers will vote for the hypocrat because of what they hear on Letterman.

Seriously.

And God help us if ObamaNATION OF ISLAM or Shrill are elected, once they wreck the entire word, not just the country, that too will ultimately be Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rummy’s fault.

The hypocrat party: champions of the mentally ill and possessed.


13 posted on 04/18/2008 6:45:12 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: RC2

Someone posted prior that all of us, Dems and Pubs should just agree to a do over. We all made big mistakes and since it’s both sides, there should be not much argument.

Sorry I can’t give credit to the original poster but I can’t find the post in the search.


14 posted on 04/18/2008 6:55:04 PM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: kellynla
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"Don't wear the pin!"
"Wear the pin!"
"Don't wear the pin!"
"Wear the pin!"

15 posted on 04/18/2008 6:56:42 PM PDT by swampdweller
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To: kellynla
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Y'all been hoodwinked. Bamboozled up in here.

16 posted on 04/18/2008 7:04:42 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: kellynla

Arugula and $100/lb Ham
17 posted on 04/18/2008 7:20:33 PM PDT by igoramus08
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To: RC2

Isn’t that the truth? Politics sure attracts the big chunks floating on the cesspool.


18 posted on 04/18/2008 7:32:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Secret Agent Man
The real question is why he chose to set himself up for this un-necessary issue. He could very well have just worn the flag like everyone else, no one would ever have given it a second thought. But he chose to make an issue of it. Why? Who was he playing to, and what was the real message he was sending? I know the drive-by media will never explore these questions, but they seem to me to be of potentially great significance indeed, especially given the emerging evidence of his alien ideology.
19 posted on 04/18/2008 8:05:39 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: kellynla
Amongst many evil things... osamabama is a lying POS!!!

LLS

20 posted on 04/18/2008 8:13:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Could I ever vote for mcstain? osamabama hussein may convince me yet!)
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