Real news reporters went that a way. Now all we have is left wing political hacks. I've cancelled my papers and don't watch the Lame Stream Media or the Communist News Network (CNN). Let the advertisers figure out no one is watching, so there may be a reason for falling sales.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Earlier Brown had Michael Ware on, he with the exaggerated Aussie accent speaking slowly so his audience absorbs his wisdom. Tonight that wisdom was that whatever progress has been made in Iraq is solely due to either A. the US allowing Iran to run Iraq or B. the US being forced to let Iran run Iraq. In other words whatever progress has been made has nothing to do with anything we have done in Iraq. The irony is that up until recently his wisdom was that no real progress had been made, everything was illusional. Now that he can't deny that good things are happenung, he still can't bring himself to give any of the good guys credit at all. I think CNN dredged him up in the same swamphole they found Amananpour. Campbell Brown's role as anchor is to make sure the correct points are made.

Liberals just don't get it and probably never will.

It's not the singular refusal to wear a flag pin nor his explanation.  It is the totality of his actions, his words and his associations all of which are completely voluntary behaviours on Obama's part.

• No flag pin

• No hand over heart during National Anthem

• Consorting with unrepentent domestic terrorists

• Deep familial-like bonds with America hating, White hating preacher for 20 years

• Financial relationships with international terrorist sympathizers

• Bitter America denigrating wife (whose led a fairly charmed life so far compared to the majority of the population)

• Willingness to bomb allies

• Willingness to have direct talks with despots without preconditions

• Willingness to sacrifice own grandmother to save his political obsession (not your usual 'mom and apple pie' behaviour)

• Willingness to unilaterally and without deliberation take options off the table when dealing with America's enemies.

• Avoided military service

• Will not lessen America's dependence on foreign oil by refusing to drill domestically, build new refineries, stop/minimize expensive "blending" of gas, build new coal and/or nuclear power plants.

• Willing to reward illegal aliens with citizen's tax money paid entitlements and citizenship.

• Will say or do nearly anything to become president including voting against current US military/political objectives and using rhetoric to denounce the current administration that is viewed as beneficial by America's enemies.

RRAM Tough! 

Thank you Mr. Finkelstein. It is not whether he wears or does not wear a pin. Nor is it about his patriotism. It is what he said when he took it off.

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I will speak for myself, a 20 Navy vet. It is important, here is why:

  I saluted the U.S Flag every day for 20 years at 0800 every morning and held that salute while the national anthem was played. I saluted the flag every day at sundown when the flag was lowered. Sometimes it was me, putting up the flag.

  The U.S Flag was displayed on the quarterdeck of every command I was stationed. It flew over every installation I was stationed or visited. It flew off the back of every ship in port and at the top of the mast underway. I saluted the U.S. Flag when I boarded the ship and I saluted the flag when I left.

  There was a flag at every ceremony I attended. Displayed indoors, held outdoors. That flag was saluted by all.

  The day I retired, I received a U.S. Flag that was flown over the USS Arizona on December 7 2000. 900 men are still intombed on that ship Mr. Roland.

  I am a member of the American Legion now. The flag is sewn on my A.L. uniform. I proudly hold the U.S Flag while there is a 21 gun salute when a veteran is buried. The surviving members of the veterans family is presented with the flag covering his coffin. It is the last thing they receive. I expect my family members to get my last flag someday.

  So, yes, honoring the American Flag is the very least I can expect from our next Commander In Chief.

  Hundreds of thousands of men have died for this flag, and honoring it is important to me.

The fact he is back to wearing the flagpin just shows he is incapable of sticking to his guns. John Kerry invented the fine art of political flip-flopping, Barry just introduces it to a whole new generation.

I'd be just as happy if Obama DID NOT wear a flag pin. He shouldnt sully something men and women have sacrificed and died for, and what stands for all that is good about America. So, Barry, just leave the pin off and make Campbell happy.

There is none so blind as they that won’t see. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745