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I am just astonished at how disrespectfully people treat our flag. I'm glad that the veterans group stood up to the local Democrat Party Headquarters and made them take it down.

Unreal.
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American Flag With Obama's Face Enrages Veterans in Florida | National News - The BIG One - WTAM 1100
http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=9899742


(Madeleine Morgenstern) – An American flag featuring an image of President Barack Obama’s face was removed from outside a local Florida Democratic Party headquarters Tuesday after several veterans called it “despicable” and a “desecration,” the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Veterans gathered Tuesday afternoon to protest in front of the Lake County Democratic Party headquarters, where the flag — featuring Obama’s face in the blue section where the stars normally go — was flying beneath a traditional American flag. The confrontation ended after party chairwoman Nancy Hurlbert took the flag down, according to the Sentinel.

The protest started after Don Van Beck, a Korean war veteran and executive director of the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped several pictures of the flag and distributed them to others. He told WFTV-TV seeing it made his blood boil.

“I can‘t describe how upset was because you just don’t do that to the American flag,” he told the station.

The group demanded Hurlbert remove the flag, saying it was a violation of the federal flag code that prohibits any “marks, insignia, letters, words, figures, designs, picture or drawings of any nature,” the Leesburg Daily Commercial reported. According to the Sentinel, Hurlbert said she would look into the issue but didn’t take the flag down right away. A short while later, she conceded and removed it.

Man you gotta read the comments at the end of the story on the link.

It's like a DT political or religious thread all over again :P

Yes indeed. Poor Susan Dorado got taken to the woodshed . . .

A REALLY DUMB IDEA......

Ytown, you and I don't agree a lot on Politics, but THIS time we do. Absolutely disgraceful. I could care less that it's Obama, it's the desecration of the flag that PO's me.

lol...yeah she did

Exactly.. this isn't about Obama, it's not even about the democratic party.. it's about a handful of people who had a brain fart of epic proportion...

The only thing dumber would be to fly a "Mission Accom..." Never mind.

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I dont even hold that against Obama..

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I'm shocked!

Ugh...terrible. what is wrong with people?

Not every idea is a good one.

Like Chris Rock once said: Yeah... you can drive a car with your feet, but that doesn't mean it's to be done..."

What would you consider worse? The fact that obama's face is on that flag, or that it's made in China?

I'm not offended at all. They clearly didn't know the code (most people don't) but once she looked into it she took it down. I believe the vets gave her a POW-MIA flag to fly in it's place. It was given to them as a gift. I do wonder who made it.

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It's the United States of AMERICA, not Obama.