I noted the following off-hand comment in an article in the NYT this morning about Obama: “Sure enough, Mr. Obama, wearing a flag lapel pin for the second day in a row, walked out of the building to the announcement of Mrs. Clinton’s victory and headlines calling it a blowout.”
Finally. Don’t get me wrong, the whole lapel thing is just retarded. Who gives a flying fuck if a candidate wears a lapel pin or not? Does he have to wear American flag underwear in order to be considered sufficiently “patriotic”? But that having been said, why let it become an issue? Who…fucking…cares. Just wear the damn pin. If some voters care, then wear it. What’s the cost? Is the principle of *not* wearing it that important to defend? Is it worth the risk of losing an election over? Wear the friggin’ pin. Wear flag ties. Wear flag shoes. Buy a flag hat. Have a suitcoat made out of the flag. Tattoo the flag on your ass. Small price to pay to become the leader of the free world. We have bigger fish to fry, and I don’t have the stomach to listen to that sawed off little Greek asking about it again and again in the upcoming debates with McCain.
Actually, making clothing out of the flag is strictly verboten as well. The United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10 is the section on “Patriotic Customs.”
ยง176 is titled, “Respect for flag.” Section (d) states, “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.”
Actually, if you want to go even farther than that, you might say that all candidates are disrespectful of the flag because they use it in political ads. Section (i) of the same code above states, “The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.”
So much for patriotism.