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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: quehubo who wrote (69307)5/30/2008 9:14:27 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541747
 
For some people such gestures smack of fascism. Any fascist can salute a flag or wear a pin- and in fact, they love doing that. Watch any film from communist China, or the USSR, or Nazi Germany- they ALL have their hands in the right place for their various salutes. It's not like every Evil Empire can't salute. The whole point of being in a "free" country is you CAN demonstrate your patriotism in other ways- ways fascists and communists can't even begin to dream about, since they don't have any freedom.

You want Obama to "sensitively" do what every one else is doing (even though "everyone" isn't really doing it)- because you want to complain about Obama. If you didn't have the flag pin and the national anthem thing (which is ridiculous, and I'd never heard of it before this flap)- you'd be complaining about the angle of his head while he says the pledge, or the fact that he doesn't open his mouth wide enough to sing. You don't like the guy- that's fine, we all get that. But complaining about stuff like this just makes your dislike look silly. I'm sure you have better things to complain about, and your cause would probably be better served if you complained about those more sensible things. Your complaints about flag pins and anthems will play well only with the folks who weren't going to vote for Obama anyway- I assume you'd like to reach a wider audience, but maybe you wouldn't. At any rate, carry on.
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