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Obama orders flags to half staff at White House for Chattanooga victims
CNN.com ^ | July 21, 2015 | Jim Acosta

Posted on 07/21/2015 9:53:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

To honor service members killed in Chattanooga, President Obama orders flags be flown at half-staff at White House and other federal sites until sunset July 25.

(CNN)The White House and U.S. Capitol both lowered flags to half staff by Tuesday afternoon, after they were out of sync Tuesday in their tributes to the five U.S. service members who were slain by a gunman in Chattanooga last week.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky announced Tuesday that flags at the Capitol would be lowered to half-staff in honor of the victims.

"Out of respect for their courageous service and sacrifice to our nation, flags at the U.S. Capitol are being lowered to half-staff," Boehner said in a statement.

But at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the flags at the White House noticeably remained at full-staff. Aides to the president have repeatedly declined to discuss whether the flags at the White House would be similarly lowered. Boehner's office said Tuesday that they had alerted the White House of their plans.

"I don't have more information about the status of the flag over the White House," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday. Earnest had nearly the same response for reporters Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Tennessee; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2; chattanooga; flags; halfstaff; iran; obama; shame; tennessee; waronterror; whitehouse
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To: Kaslin
To honor service members killed in Chattanooga, President Obama orders flags be flown at half-staff

BS! A dishonorable man honors nothing and only does the right thing when his nose is rubbed in it.

61 posted on 07/21/2015 3:51:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: hecticskeptic
Funny, it happened at about the same moment in Trump’s SC speech when he got a standing ovation for telling the President to “Lower the flags for crying out loud.”

Trump's already calling the shots. These people in DC are a dangerous embarrassment.

62 posted on 07/21/2015 3:53:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Good question. Seems as though one of his minions should hold responsibility for advising dumbass, er I mean Obama, of protocol and etiquette, and mAking the official announcement on his behalf.


63 posted on 07/21/2015 4:07:49 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Obama is an enemy of the US.)
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To: Kaslin

And he’s raising the ISIS flag above our flag.

Dead white women and Marines/Sailors don’t count in this Islamo-Marxist regime.


64 posted on 07/21/2015 4:10:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Tennessee Nana

They should throw his rotten a$$ out into the street with all of the other trash


65 posted on 07/21/2015 4:11:25 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Kaslin
Took him long enough.


66 posted on 07/21/2015 5:32:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Ironically, the cover date of that New Yorker issue is 7 years ago, today.


67 posted on 07/21/2015 5:36:47 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Kaslin


68 posted on 07/21/2015 5:47:23 PM PDT by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
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69 posted on 07/21/2015 5:55:27 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Kaslin

Late to the thread, and haven’t read all replies, but it again must be said. (Still on vaca so little time for doing this).

We HAVE to stop lowering the flag for every damn thing.

We might as well raise the white flag.

Becoming more like the France we imagine that to be.

Moslems love how much weakness we show.


70 posted on 07/21/2015 7:49:51 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Impala64ssa
from here, to there, eventually...
71 posted on 07/21/2015 8:21:14 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Kaslin

This is 100% tied to Trumps comments. Hussein knew he was cornered from the get go and it would’ve spiraled out of control if he didn’t do something fast. Trump hammered him on the birth certificate and he would’ve hammered him on this.


72 posted on 07/21/2015 11:06:25 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Genoa

Obama has turned the White House into an abortion clinic by day, gay bar by night


73 posted on 07/21/2015 11:06:25 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Sooth2222

There’s probably no proof that Obama did it because he was shamed into it, though that’s likely the case.

CNN isn’t going to go out on a limb, so they have to infer it within their dialogue.


74 posted on 07/21/2015 11:06:26 PM PDT by ConservativeWarriors
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To: Kaslin

Title should be... Trump orders flags be flown at half-staff at White House.


75 posted on 07/23/2015 1:20:52 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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