I Pledge Allegiance to Obama’s Face?
By Todd Starnes
A Florida Democratic Party outpost has taken down an American flag depicting an image of President Obama after a group of veterans complained that the flag had been desecrated.
The flag was flying underneath an American flag outside the Lake County Democratic Party headquarters. Instead of stars, the blue field featured an image of President Obama’s face.
That infuriated local veterans like Jim Bradford, the office manager at the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in nearby Leesburg.
“I couldn’t believe that anybody in their right mind would desecrate the American flag that way,” he told Fox News. “It was disrespectful.”
“It’s a cult of personality to show his face, like Stalin or Mao,” said former Marine John Masterjohn in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel. “It’s despicable. They don’t realize how sick they are.”
Nancy Hurlbert, the chairwoman of the local Democratic Party, removed the flag after a group of veterans staged a protest outside her office.
“We’re proud of our president and we didn’t realize it was in violation,” she told the Orlando Sentinel. “I am the chair and I will take responsibility for this.”
Don Van Beck, executive director of the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park, quoted from the federal flag code – which in part reads:
“The flag should never have placed upon it or any part of it, any marks, insignia, letters, words, figures, designs, picture or drawings of any nature.”
The protesters offered to give the Democrats a POW flag as a replacement. However,
Hurlbert refused to accept the flag.
Van Beck said he was glad the flag was removed.
“I’m sorry it had to come to this,” he told the Daily Commercial newspaper. “You don’t desecrate the flag, especially for the veterans who fought the wars and died for it.
In dictatorships, they have a picture of their dictator on some of the flags, but we haven’t arrived at having a dictator, yet.”
Bradford agreed and said friends who live in the area will make periodic inspections just in case they try to repost the Obama flag.
“I just wonder how many other Democrats are flying the flag at their offices,” Bradford said.
Todd is the author of “Dispatches From Bitter America” – a book written to defend the “bitter-clingers” of the nation. “Dispatches” has been endorsed by Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. Click here to get your copy!
