Friday, April 18, 2008

Also interesting- the flap about the flag pin and his answer.

Obama chooses not to wear the pin that virtually all politicians wear. This is an outward expression of support for the United States that Obama chooses not to offer.

This is fair game. ABC allowed a woman to ask Obama about how he feels about the flag.

Media elite Jake Tapper (ABC News' Senior National Correspondent in DC) is shocked a woman who, he thinks, should be very upset about all that America has done to fail her, chose to raise the issue of the flag pin. (click here for his comments)

Unlike Tapper, this woman understands that no matter how bad any American has it individually, we are all so much better off than those around the world who suffer at the hands of governments that abhor freedom.

Obama didn't really answer her question about wearing the flag but said he revered the flag and America and regaled us, again, with his story about being born to a teenage mom, raised by a single mom and having grandparents from small towns in Kansas...

Not to be nit picky about his efforts to play on the struggle of teen moms across this country but the real story (click here for Chicago Trib article):

  • Stanley Ann (his mom) was nearly 19 and a college student when she married a graduate student and became a mom.
  • She got divorced from Obama's father when he abandoned her to go to HARVARD.
  • Barack Obama was a toddler when they divorced and his mother remarried two years later.
  • Her years as a single mom were limited to two.
  • And she had the full support of her parents, also something many single parents lack...

Obama sure likes to play on stereotypes when he thinks they benefit him.

and was Obama flipping Hillary off in this post debate talk? (Click here) You decide...

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