Yesterday, tweets flew fast and furious over an American flag featuring Obama’s mug where the stars representing the states ought to be. Given his anti-federalist ideology, that sounds about right to us, but lovers of the American flag and what it’s supposed to stand for weren’t standing for it.
An American flag with President Obama’s image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county’s Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner “a disgrace.”
Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn’t enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.
“It’s absolutely disrespectful,” Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. “It’s totally ridiculous. To put somebody’s picture there, to me, it’s a disgrace to do that.”
Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.
“We read that to her, but she would not accept that,” Bradford said. “The discussion finally got a little bit heated.”
The flag, which had been flying for several months without complaint and is available online for $12.95, was later removed by Hurlbert.
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Disgrace is the perfect word. Here are some twitter reax:
https://twitter.com/#!/vroom222/status/180286477446557697
https://twitter.com/#!/bynaturehomeste/status/180286451282493440
https://twitter.com/#!/brianbrownnet/status/180287085436088320
https://twitter.com/#!/pigwear/status/180287633845530624
We searched around, but couldn’t find tweets defending this.
https://twitter.com/#!/ryanra/status/180286031780777984
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