http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html
“Obama spokesperson replied on Inside Edition, “Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn’t [put his hand on his heart]. In no way was he making any sort of statement, and any suggestion to the contrary is ridiculous.”
ATTENTION AMERICANS!!
VOTE FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THAT WILL SALUTE AND RESPECT OUR AMERICAN FLAG!!
Tags: 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, integrity, not saluting flag, presidential candidates, salute flag
January 21, 2008 at 11:50 pm |
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January 27, 2008 at 11:47 pm |
I do not believe Obama would get many votes if all Americans could see this photo. This photo should be put out in the world for all to see. Many people would certainly change their minds about voting for him!
January 31, 2008 at 6:31 pm |
I agree with norma blond. If Obama can’t even respect our flag how can we expect him to respect our country.
February 4, 2008 at 7:12 pm |
HOW CAN ANYONE VOTE FOR HIM?? HE DOESNT EVEN SALUTE OUR U.S. FLAG.
WHAT ARE HIS TRUE INTENTIONS???
February 8, 2008 at 5:21 pm |
I was sincerely considering supporting Obama but find his disrespect for the United States traditions insulting. Therefoe, I will not even entertain the thought of voting for him.
February 10, 2008 at 5:41 am |
There is a thing that we call patriotism that used to be what Americans lived, breathed, fought, and died for. To lead this country you must not only understand it and respect it, but truly believe and remember the power it has produced in our history. Obama did not show the simple sign of respect to the very symbol of our young yet powerful nation. Why did he do this? Did he simply feel to tired to rest his hand on hid heart? Did he hope to gain some press coverage? Or did plainly choose just not to do it? Either way what does this say of him? If he was in the white house as our president might he simply not feel like working one day? May he not feel like listening to the voices of his people? Might his hand be ever so tired that it can’t sign a bill? What about sending relief to aid in a natural disaster? But of course he clapped at the end of the anthem, so he wasn’t to tired for that. Showing kindness and respect to that performer shows that he understood that the moment called for applause and that he needed to do so. For what would we have said if he had not clapped? What if he is visiting a foreign dignitary and just chooses not to shake their hand. The simplest sign of disrespect can lead to dislike, gossip, and even breed enemies. Many wars have been started from what one person calls “nothing” and another calls it “something”. Do you want to vote for someone who “…just sometimes doesn’t”? Think about it.
February 10, 2008 at 5:07 pm |
How can a Commander in Chief lead its Armed Forces and not be faithful to the US Flag for which it stands for, by not saluting or honoring what it stands for. Just like the Jehovah Witness and other religions. They want what America has to offer but don’t respect the Flag for what it stands for. The many that have worked hard and died for this country deserve more respect than what Obama is wanting to give. NO WAY CAN A PRESIDENT WALK BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE ON THIS ISSUE. OBAMA needs to get out of the United States Government as does Mitt Romney…
February 12, 2008 at 1:05 pm |
anyone who chooses their candidate based on something as stupid as this would probably vote republican anyway
February 26, 2008 at 5:15 am |
After viewing the photo of US Democratic Presidential hopeful Obama not pledging the allegance to the US Flag at a public ceremony and the more recently the photo of Obama wearing Muslim attire, I find it extremely offensive and unforgiveable. Democrats who are for Obama need to pull their heads out of theirs asses and see Barrach Hussein Obama as the demon he really is.
March 7, 2008 at 5:10 am |
WHY IS THERE NO PUBLIC OUTRAGE REGARDING
SENATOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S WORDS THREATENING
SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON. WHY?
—————————— Friday, February 29, 2008 ——————————–
Mr. Barack Obama said regarding Mrs. Hillary Clinton “We’ve got you now in our sights. We’re coming after you.” I saw and heard this on 03 January 2008 on Dallas’ CBS news, Channel 11, twice. Both are Democratic Party presidential candidates. He is a “CIVIL RIGHT LAWYER.” As such he knows the power and code those words send. Is this a death threat? Is it encouraging acts against her? Is it part of campaign strategy heading towards the current status of events?
Obama said this immediately at the aftermath of the assassination of Pakistan‘s former Prime Minister, Benazir Butto.
Some ones ‘came after’ and assassinated John F. Kennedy, Presidential Candidate Bobby Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King! Why would Mr. Obama be so insensitive to say this words at such ill timing? Yet the press lets this ‘rock star’ get away with such insensitivity and turns a blind eye towards it. “Por que?”
Had a white person said this of a black person? There would be an enormous uprising. Look at the recent outrage about Latino Civil Rights attorney and activist Mrs. Aldefa Callejo. She said that the blacks in power in Dallas were unfair to Latinos and that she was supporting Hillary. Hence she had a problem with Obama because he was likewise black. She perceived that he would treat Hispanics likewise. Thank GOD that many blacks are supportive of Latinos and visa versa. As I recall, Mr. Obama did not start courting the Latino vote until he lost the Florida primary. Yet he has reportedly said that he will open the White House’s door more for African Americans.
And there was no public outrage regarding these words of January. But there has been public outrage about comments by Senator Clinton. Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton explained her words which were focused on historic facts about the power of peaceful acts of Martin Luther King; and the subsequent legislative power of the presidential pen.
His type of rhetoric by our politicians and silence by the media concerns me. Let’s be fair. Both should apologize and/or give an explanation as to the intent of their words. She has explained. Why is it that Senator Barack Hussein Obama has not! Words tell us what is in a person’s heart and soul. God be with all who read and heed these words.
We deserve “JUSTICE not “Just us!” This is the “USA” not the “You Esse!”
F.B. Reyes
Professional Civil Rights Activist and former Democratic Party Nominee for the US House of Representatives
716 South Deerfield Cir.
Arlington, Texas 76015 – USA
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March 13, 2008 at 3:48 am |
For anyone out there who says that it is silly or not important to salute the symbol of our nation is an absolute and utter Traitor, yes traitor, I know what the word means because that is exactly what you are. As for that sl person, whoever the hell you are, you are not a loyal american. I don’t agree with everything the republicans say, but at least they have some sense of morals and dignity and respect for men who laid down their very lives for you to be an asshole and bad mouth the very country that allows you to be such a DICK! My God, how ignorant can you be! Thanks to this country and that flag that that lousy politician won’t even salute, you have the rights to say what you just did and yet you say that kind of shit. You leftist asshole. Get your marajuana stick out of your mouth and wake up. Stop having sex in the streets and thinking the world is such a nice place that everyone can get together and sing around the camp fire like some big happy family. Our government has done awful things, not this country. The government includes both republicans and democrats. I don’t see the damn democrats doing too much either to better this country. So keep your goddamn liberal views in the closet where they belong, Until you know what you are talking about, shut the hell up! How in god’s name can you expect a person who does not even respect the very symbol of this country and then lead this country whose symbol he does not respect? Are you totally void of any patriotism. The flag is more than just a piece of cloth, it is the very symbol of what this country is. If you think that flag is just a piece of cloth, then get the hell out of the country and go live with the people who want to destroy this country, cause that is exactly what you are and what Obama is also. Why don’t you join the likes of Osama Bin Laden and get it over with already. You obviously have no love of this country just like him!
March 20, 2008 at 12:56 am |
I’m of 2 races; Black, and the other parent from Sderot – an area of Israel being bombed daily by people who think like Sen. Obama’s church. In fact, those who are sending rockets into Sderot daily, are defended by Rev. Wright. I will NOT vote for a man who cannot respect his nation’s Banner and symbol; nor a man who can sit in a congregation and ingest TWENTY (20) YEARS of anti-White, anti-Semitic, anti-American, and anti-COMPASSION towards the September 11th victims and their families. ARE WE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE THAT HE WAS IMMUNE TO SUCH INDOCTRINATION? His so-called “uncle” would NOT have supported Mr. Obama so strongly if Mr. Obama had expressed to this pastor in any way that he did not approve of his pastor’s statements. Sen. Obama gave a weak argument in his speech. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “NOT AGREEING” WITH DOCTRINE and Scriptural interpretation AND NOT AGREEING WITH HATE. And HATE is NOT merely “controversial”. Sen. Obama is very skilled in minimizing his political exposures and flaws and maximizing others’. Just a few years ago, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and a host of other so-called “leaders” in the Black community called for the resignation of a political figure who was friends to a man who had made several racists statements. Black leaders threw fits until he resigned. BUT, for Sen. Obama, the rules change. Now, “a politician can be friends to racists but should not be judged by them”. A different rule when the shoe is on the other foot. Rev. Sharpton plays by one rule for himself and another for everyone else. He claims to want fairness; but only when he wants it for his own camp. No competent politician would fail to prepare for the inevitable “law of association” which always kicks in during election campaigns. Any candidate for any office knows that his past and associations will be examined and scrutinized. IF he did not agree, and wanted to be “President” he would have walked away much earlier during his candidacy so that he could say, “I walked away”. Eloquent speeches that assume we’re stupid are unacceptable. He does agree with his pastor. Sen. Obama (perhaps like Sen. Clinton) wants to make “history”. Again, they both want this. As “the first Black president” or the “first female president”.
There has been NO terrorists attacks in EIGHT (8) YEARS! So somebody must have been doing SOMETHING right. The problem is that NO ONE knows the Quran – the instructional book of terrorism (not the Westernized translation, but the original Arabic); and we should have at least objective knowledge about our enemies. Because most Americans do not have this knowledge, no one realizes that Pres. Bush drew the “fire” away from American soil into Islamic territory to protect Americans. WHENEVER NON-MUSLIMS MOVE THEIR MILITARY INTO ISLAMIC-OWNED TERRITORY, IT IS REQUIRED OF ALL MUSLIM MEN TO RALLY TO THE POINT OF “INVASION”. This is why so many Americans were arrested by the American military in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were obeying their religion and infiltrating the war. AND IF YOU DRAW THE FIRE AWAY FROM AMERICA IN ORDER TO FIGHT AWAY FROM OUR SOIL, THEN THE ATTACKS WILL BE AWAY FROM OUR SOIL. American Muslim men started answering the call to rally together and fight against America. Nearly every attempt to attack America following, was caught and dismantled. But…it takes more than an education through CNN, MS NBC, NY Times, and etc. to know this. Sen. Obama did not salute because he is not being honest about who he is. And for the record; we have yet to see all that he is!
http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article917 (Please paste into URL and watch.)
Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Muammar Qadhafi of Lybia (notorious terrorist) met together to discuss their common goals. IF a White presidential candidate in America met with a Klansman and a Neo-Nazi the Black Community would demand their resignation from election. Although Rev. Wright claims to be a Christian, he meets with a man who (watch the video) states that The Bible is a “forged and impure Book”. Qadhafi also states that the “whole world must become Muslims”. Can’t wait to here what Obama’s church will have to say when they are told that their women must wear veils and study Islam or die. This obviously will not be a far stretch for their “pastor”.
June 8, 2008 at 6:10 am |
If someone already disrespects our history and what our flag means to us as Americans, why should we think that it will be any better if we elect that person to represent us. WHY would we? obviously He couldn’t care less for us at all. At VERY least that flag stands for much more than a salute what about lives dedicated and lost for what the US has always tried to give to us and others oppressed??
July 2, 2008 at 10:19 pm |
Placed in the context of his other flagrant behaviors one comes the conclusion he is anti-American. Placed in context with the Father Pflegler, Williams Ayers, his wife’s comments and Rev Wright one can have no doubt of his true character.
I envite your comment. greggrobertson@yahoo.com
May God continue to bless America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRthpxDM10
October 8, 2008 at 6:07 am |
THIS IS SO DISGUSTING TO SEE THIS BASKETBALL PLAYER NOT RESPECTING THE STARS AND STRIPES. NOBODY SHOULD VOTE FOR SUCH A TRAITOR WHO WILL GIVE IN TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND LET TERRORISTS INTO THIS GREAT COUNTRY. IF HE CAN’T SALUTE OUR FLAG HE SHOULD GO BACK TO NIGERIA
October 23, 2008 at 12:43 am |
I suggest that all the supporters of McCain start to demonstrate how to salute the flag everywhere they go, invoking the patriotism, even when going to the polls! Spread all the world that photo! Adopt that salute Obama didn’t, as a code;the hand on the heart as a sign of patriotism. A special way of greeting each other from now on. Even when going to the polls. All the patriots that support McCain should do the saluting greeting whenever they meet. Instead of a shaking hands. Together with the shaking hands (before, or, after).
Raise your hand and touch your heart for America. Keep making people remember that Obama unpatriotic scene! And show through this symbol that we must save America.
October 23, 2008 at 11:46 am |
…And show through THIS symbol that we must save America…
October 25, 2008 at 4:45 am |
This is the basis of our Country. President is the Commander in Chief of our Country. Obama wants to be placed in a position of power (notice I said power) over Our Country and yet he has no respect for Our Country. He has no respect for us as Americans. It is complete disregard for all that this Country has worked for and those of us who truly understand where this Country came from. What would the forefathers have done if a traitor was not willing to give the most basic respect to our Nations symbol? There may very well have been a witch trial. But what are we thinking of doing? Placing this man in charge of our future, this Country that he has no respect for as well as tearing away the pages of history that our Forefathers worked so hard to build on based on this flag and all it represents. It does not represent Obama, he says it himself. So what Country is he willing to salute? Seriously? You are really going to say that this is not extrememely disturbing behavior for a man who wants to run this Country? Thats to say nothing of his political inexperience or his own shady lifestyle choices. Dont base a vote solely on this picture but be intelligent enough to take a very close look at what he is so clearly saying to us as American people. He does not have to salute our flag because sometimes he doesnt feel like it? What the hell is that anyway? he cant even make up his mind whether he respects it enough to lift a hand to his heart? What flag does he plan on flying in OUR oval office?
I am not a republican. I am not any party in particular. Do not accuse me of being “republican” in order to have this perspective. I am an American. And if thats is what has got your panties in a twist anyway just take a look at the picture. Does it look “republican” photoshopped to you? I vote for the person who can best provide what I think this Country needs the most. I did not vote for Bush either term. However, There is no way that I will vote for Obama. I can not trust a man who will not support the very basics of American Freedom and those who did the work for him in our American history. That flag has made is possible for his family to shop at Target(yeah ok sure )That flag has made this position that he wants so badly he is making all kinds of promises to get. That flag provides plenty of food for his table that many families do not have the luxury of. That flag is not perfect. It is old and it has been abused. It has made poor choices that has affected millions of us. But that flag still holds the thread of America together and that flag is what binds us together as a Country and a Nation. If he cannot be appreciative enough to pay the basic respect that Flag deserves why should we respect him? If Our flag does not represent him ALL of the time then he cannot represent us as a Nation at all. Half assing the job of Comander in Chief does not fly in my book and I am not willing to put my daughters future at risk. I am also not willing to take for granted all that my grandfather gave his life for. He always saluted our American flag.
If you cannot truly see the disrespect in his actions to our Country than take a look at your own respect level. Maybe take a minute to think about what you could be grateful to this flag for considering that things could be worse anywhere else. Life is hard and I am not rich by any means but if you have access to this message you are using a computer somewhere. There are millions who never have a chance to use a computer becuase they cant afford to. So cross your heart and salute the flag. It is treason to this Country to do other wise. Ignorant, hypocritical, unreliable, selfish, dishonorable, disrespectful, unappreciative, twisted, irresponsible, or any other form of the concept you would like to use to describe it.
There is a difference between power and honor. look at the picture, which does it look like he wants?
October 30, 2008 at 1:55 pm |
WHY HE DIDN’T SALUTE?… It’s because…
…HE WAS NOT TAUGHT TO SALUTE THE AMERICAN FLAG IN THE SCHOOL HE ATTENDED…
We have already had many evidences of his lack of patriotism… The one you are seeing now is just one more shame of his unpatriotic behaviour!
Above the evidences there is the fact that he has not yet assured he is,really, an american citizen; he is presumed to be born, in reality, in Kenya. Didn’t you know? And, till now, HIS LAWYER refuses to make proof that he was born in Hawaii…
BHO IS A BIG MISTAKE! BEWARE OF THE BHO!…
THINK: he has “friends” that are not at all friends of America!!! BHO brings “changes” that “THEY NEED”!!! YOU MAY WATCH AN EXAMPLE IN THE PICTURE ABOVE…
November 17, 2008 at 4:36 pm |
[...] to elect a man with no military experience, who refused to wear a flag pin upon his chest and did not salute the flag, who never supported the War in Iraq and wants to end it before victory, and and who believes in [...]
November 18, 2008 at 12:32 am |
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February 5, 2009 at 9:13 pm |
I’m so glad he won to prove all of you idiots wrong
February 10, 2009 at 1:11 pm |
I’m a soldier currently in iraq for the third time. My question is, how could our great nation support Obama if he can’t even stand up straight like an American that he claims to be and place his hand over his heart and show some respect for everything i have come to stand for. I have lost many friends and they went willingly into places they knew they could not possibly come out of alive just because they believed in what our country stands for. I will continue my service to my country and preserve the right for man to say and do as he choses within the boundries of the law. But seeing Obama disrespect all I stand for makes me sick to my stomach.
Thank you for supporting us over here and the American people have been there for me through it all since the beginning, for that I say thank you.