It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, the Flag and Freedom |
In 2005, Senator Hillary Clinton was confronted with a political climate in which conformity held a higher priority than freedom. Clinton’s response to this climate was to sponsor a bill which would have made it illegal to burn a flag — even one’s own. Senator Clinton showed a willingness to sacrifice freedom of speech to popular opinion.
Last October, a local television station noticed that Senator Barack Obama wasn’t wearing a flag lapel pin and took him to task for it. Obama’s response:
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 importance to our national security. I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.
Barack Obama resisted pressures toward conformity and reasserted his freedom refrain from the latest object of American idol worship.
When it comes to flags and freedoms, I’d rather our next president followed Obama’s path, not Clinton’s path.
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My landlord (remember him? the I-don’t-rent-to-Arabs guy?) says the real reason Obama doesn’t wear a flag is because his loyalty is not to the United States but to Africa which his church pays allegiance to. For this reason he says also that Obama also refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Comment by Iroquois — 2/3/2008 @ 11:58 pm
i saw two of those magnetic “ribbons” on the back of a car the other day: the one on the left said support the troops and the one on the right said pro-life. This person is proud to be hypocritical.
See, the morons don’t go away and it’s hard to convince these people to even LISTEN to the other side without first judging via skin-color, name, gender, age, etc.
Comment by Tom — 2/4/2008 @ 5:54 am
Tom: How are these people hypocrites? My mom’s boyfriend’s oldest son is a Marine, currently serving in Germany. He has yet to kill anyone. Being a soldier and/or a supporter of soldiers is NOT, I repeat, NOT an endorsement of murder, just as being a Liberal does not make you a pot smoking hippie. Did you stop to think that it’s these soldiers, both past, present, and future, that are protecting your right to have the beliefs that you have? You’re comparing apple pie to apples- sure, no apple pie is complete without apples, but you don’t have to make an apple pie to actually eat an apple.
As far as Obama, I could care less if he wears a pin or not. I can wear a hockey mask but it doesn’t make me a hockey player. Or pro-death, Tom.
Comment by Ace Frehley — 2/4/2008 @ 5:55 pm