OBAMA CAMPAIGN QUIETLY DITCHES FAUX FLAG

Powerline ^ | September 23, 2012 | John Hinderaker

[lasereye]

The Obama campaign produced a poster of an American flag, with Obama’s “O” symbol replacing the field of stars, as an item of campaign merchandise, selling for $35. The image was tasteless at best. It is hard to imagine any other politician arrogant enough to remake the flag in his own image:

Barack Obama, however, has never been one to be deterred by bad taste. The larger problem was that, as many pointed out, the flag bore an uncanny resemblance to this grisly photograph taken at the American consulate in Benghazi:

So the Obama campaign has quietly ditched the flag poster, which now returns an error message if you try to buy it at the Obama store.

I can’t think of an analogy to this fiasco: the Obama campaign’s initial insensitivity to proper uses of the flag was bad enough, and then it was compounded by bringing to mind one of the administration’s foreign policy disasters. One can only imagine the hysteria if a similar mishap had befallen George Bush’s re-election campaign. And yet, our reporters assure us that it is Mitt Romney who has had a bad couple of weeks!

JOE updates: The Obama website returns this “page not found” message when you try to buy the flag:

Yeah: your bad.

[Alex Murphy]

[Old Sarge]

[Bob]

Yeah: your bad.

Or equally true - You're bad.

[Gene Eric]

BARACKWARD

[MissMagnolia]

Too late ..... Americans died and we won't forget Obama was derelict in his duty to these folks and to the country. We also won't forget the partying that went on in the days after (Las Vegas, Letterman, Beyonce/JayZ) with al-Qaeda flags flying over American embassies and the slain not yet laid to rest.

[JohnBrowdie]

this one was particularly bad . . . Such an office doesn't exist.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[pfflier]

Yippee! One for the good guys.

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Graphic credit: RetSignman

[wesagain]

As I said previously; the first thing I noticed about this abberation and desecration of our national symbol was the absence of the stars representing our sovereign 50 (57?) states. Of course that couldn’t have been the intention of the POS-in-Chief’s administration........./sarc.

[coloradomomba]

This man’s ego has no limits! What other political figure had his image on bumper stickers, yard signs, posters and tee-shirts? oh...I mean in America?

[palmer]

That’s a perfect image of what he has done.

[Chode]

simply OUTSTANDING!!!

[Stonewall Jackson]

It's been apparent for years that he has no respect for the flag. This latest fiasco just emphasizes that.

[Iron Munro]

[dalebert]

hahhaha...looks like smeared blood to me

[thecodont]

Nice!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Gone as fast as the Obama hoody.

[MasterGunner01]

The flag of the Kenyan, Muslim, Marxist usurper. I guess it didn’t poll very well.

[dead]

No I want to buy one! It’ll be a better political artifact than Billy Beer.

[Toespi]

CIC.....Celebrity-in-Chief.

[Toespi]

Gotta have a bumper sticker....any idea if there is such a thing.

[Pride in the USA]

ping

[mylife]

Excellent!

[Chode]

well done!!! not to mention real Americans already have one...

[FARS]

More details and graphics.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2012/09/obamas-horrible-despicable-bloody.html

[SERKIT]

Barack Kardashian Obama Soetoro, Celeb-in-Chief

[Servant of the Cross]

And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs, eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by a mob of savages to be tortured and killed.

[Republic]

wow!

[cardinal4]

I’m reading a Thomas Chaloner novel. He is an “intelligencer” during Restoration England. The books always revolve around religious fervor and excess. In Chaloner’s time, everything is anti-Catholic, or Papist. I’m struck by the nonsensical religious hatred in the books, because it reminds me so much of modern Islam.
Yes, Reform brought about a lot of hostility between Christians, and yes they fought ugly battles for years afterwards; the Civil Wars of Cromwell’s time, persecution of and by French Hugenots, up to recent times in the struggle over Northern Ireland. But in the end, both sides said enough is enough and moved on. Islam has no intention or inclination to learn from history. They thrive on hatred and emotion, bloodshed and fear.
The bloodied wall in Benghazi is a symbol to me of foolish religious intolerance not unlike the empty and barren churches, devoid of anything deemed “papist” (stained glass, statues, vestments, etc) of Chaloner’s time.
Even in a historical fiction novel history is there to be learned from; or repeated..

[lonevoice]

[LyinLibs]

The 5 Bloody “Stripes” = 5 Pillars of Islam

[MissMagnolia]

Ping!

[mojo114]

Do you have a link for that?

[Gator113]

I have 911 on hold. I just wanted to quickly tell you that I think you gave me a heart attack. My lawyers will be in touch.

[LyinLibs]

More detail on “The 5 Pillars of Islam,” as represented by Obama’s 5 bloody stripes flag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Pillars_of_Islam

http://www.islam101.com/dawah/pillars.html

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[Casie]

[dalereed]

“It’ll be a better political artifact than Billy Beer”

I did a remodel on a beer distributor when that crap was being sold.

They told my men to “take all you want” and they brought about 10 cases into the office and it was so bad I sent every bit of it to the dump!!!

[JPG]

You'll recall the Obot zombies wanted Bush to leave office early so the Messiah could get right to work.

[maryz]

Well, that was short and sweet . . . or something! ;-)

Thanks for the ping!

[a real Sheila]

ewwww!

just ewwwww!

[PapaBear3625]

While they took down that web page, the IMAGE is still on the website at

https://store.barackobama.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/p/mpls-2_1.jpg

[BlueLancer]

If you or someone has the photoshop skills to add the word "Islam" or "The Five Pillars of Islam" to the black hand, that would make a GREAT bumper sticker ...

[ctdonath2]

It was marked as “limited edition”, so they could say it just sold out.
Funny, now they can disown it, or not, as they see fit.

[thingumbob]

Ping to keep for later.....

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