The man wasn’t wearing a flag pin during the debate tonight. What kind of patriot is that? That’s basically just one step away from burning our beloved flag. Kind of makes you wonder if the Vietnamese got to him all Manchurian Candidate-style. You know, weaken American by getting politicians to stop wearing little pins on their lapels. It’s been a long time since I read Gibbon, but I’m quite sure I remember him talking about how Julius Caesar himself predicted that Rome could not hold itself together without the leading citizens wearing little eagle pins on their togas. They didn’t do it and goddam if ole Julius didn’t turn out to be right. A mere 2000 years later, anyone whose been to Rome can see for themselves - traffic is awful! Sweet, sweet karma.
If you’re a good, patriotic American like me you have to be asking yourself: Can we afford a President who hates America so much he won’t even wear a flag pin to the first Presidential debate?
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September 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
David McGraw
The hilarity really comes to light when you actually remember when Barack Obama was being ridiculed when he didn’t wear a flag pin.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Matt
Yeah, that was the point of the post! Why aren’t there conservatives bitching about McCain’s loyalty? It’s ridiculous to assume that because you’re a Democrat you need to defend your patriotism whereas Republicans, who have done their best to wreck this country, don’t have to.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Jonathan C.
He wore a bracelet in honor of a fallen soldier, which to me seems just as symbolic as a flag pin. In fact, it’s even more personal. Our flag may create patriotic feelings, but I don’t know anyone who can be indifferent to soldiers lost in combat. Regardless of whether the combat itself is “good” or not.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Matt
Ahh, so it’s kind of like “pieces of flair”? You just need to have enough of them, but there are lots of options for your flair? My goodness, American presidential politics is certainly serious business.
–matt
October 1st, 2008 at 7:22 am
wowpanda
Thanks to the link to Gibbon, that was a interesting read. I must say Gibbon had courage, because the church is powerful those days and they burn people!! Anyone who could do that should be remembered.
But I do disagree your position on Rome, because after the roman empire collapsed, for a VERY long time, it has been a huge regression. People are torn apart between warlords/barbarians, and I remember a comment on history channel, the narrator said for a long time, when people walk alone the ruins of the roman empire, they must thought to themselves how they have regressed.
The exact cause of the fall of roman empire is still not clear. Some say it is the Christians, which is possible, but if you look at US today, most of the Christians are pro-military. I think we can compare the roman empire to today’s US. When people getting rich and a comfortable life, they no longer want to join the military and do the hard work (some even hates the military for one reason or the other). Before Attila attacks Rome, some roman citizens cut their thumbs off to avoid draft. After the fall of Roman empire, people all live in harder life and with more conflict, but in those conflicts grow out tougher people and those people, who are tougher, less corrupted (because corrupt means defeat) and they are the bases of the modern western countries. We might just be at the peak of the big cycle.