Sep 19, 2012
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The Obama campaign is now selling copies of an American flag painting that replaces the 50 stars in a blue field with the president’s campaign logo. Critics are calling the artwork creepy and unAmerican.
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“Our Stripes: Flag Print” is being promoted on the Obama campaign website. The screen print is designed by Ross Bruggink and Dan Olson.
The Obama campaign tweeted an explanation of the poster early this morning: “A poster to say there are no red states or blue states, only the United States.”
The limited-edition print costs $35.
President Obama’s version of the American flag.
Another painting resembled an outline of the continental US. The “Our Stripes: Country Print” was designed to look like an American flag, too. Like the other painting, the stars representing the 50 states were removed and replaced with Obama’s campaign logo.
Reaction on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook has been overwhelmingly negative.
“This is so offensive,” one reader wrote. “I don’t know why I’m shocked, but I am. This stoops to new lows.”
Another reader offered this assessment: “Once again, very shameful. This is a disgrace.
“And just what was wrong with the flag with the stars and stripes?” a Facebook reader wondered. “Why must Obama create his own flag?”
The United States of Obama?
“A good number of my family, including me and my twin sons, have served under the flag,” another wrote. “This is so far beyond insulting. I can’t imagine anyone who considers themself a patriot voting for Obama. Who does he think he is?”
Both prints are available online at www.barackobama.com. You can also purchase Obama yoga pants, Obama martini glasses, and coffee mugs emblazoned with President Obama’s birth certificate.
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I will not vote for you….even as part of a campaign I am disturbed by this…there is only one American Flag not mocked but treated with the utmost respect….Obama campaign have a bonfire please burn the socialist flag.
I will not vote for you….even as part of a campaign I am disturbed by this…there is only one American Flag not mocked but treated with the utmost respect….Obama campaign have a bonfire please burn the socialist flag.
I couldn't believe it could be true and I checked on snopes and yes, it IS True. Can't believe ANYONE could even think, let alone do this! http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/campaignflag.asp
this is the single dumbest thing I have ever read on the internet and I've been on 4chan.
this is the single dumbest thing I have ever read on the internet and I've been on 4chan.
Oh no! What sort of evil monster would do such a thing?
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/reagan.jpeg
Oh no! What sort of evil monster would do such a thing?
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/reagan.jpeg
Oh god, why did I read those comments…
Oh god, why did I read those comments…
the devil….surely
the devil….surely
the devil….surely
the devil….surely
the devil….surely
Clearly Reagan hated America. I will pray to try to offset the damage he did to this great Christian nation.
Personally, I think this was in very poor taste. One nation, under Obama…
Is it any worse than the Reagan ad I posted? Or the stars and stripes theme of Fox Nation that wraps itself in the flag constantly?
This feels like a case of very selective outrage.
I can see both sides.
Somehow I missed the other posts. I'm sure they are all in poor taste if they are similar to this.
OK, I see the Reagan one. That's just as bad.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40950_Uh…_About_That__Obama_Flag
What's hilarious, is that Fox News itself is constantly wrapping itself in the flag. But since Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, we're supposed to get upset, I guess.
The like Bryce posted is accurate. Politicians of all sorts — including people like Lincoln and Reagan — have used similar imagery over the years. The only reason Fox gives a crap about this is because Obama is not a "real" American.
So they can piss off.
It's such a non-story it's ridiculous. Superficial nonsense trying to take the place of a substantive debate over issues.
So many conservatives on my FB feed up in arms about this, but then link to Fox News. Genius, people.
oh my. the comments are priceless.
Dear teabaggers I guess you had no problem when the Reagan campaign made a flag replacing the stars with Reagan's name it, or how fox news does it every day with the fox logo on the flag? The tea party replaced the stars with a tea cup. The fake outrage is comical in its hypocrisy. Low information voters are truly hurting this great country.
He's not the first, but of course most of you don't know history.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151161939253467&set=o.185245798188721&type=1&theater
Sarah Palin Tea Party Flag Available for $29.25. You're all a bunch of hypocrites.
http://www.zazzle.com/sarah_palin_the_tea_party_flag_poster-228187038235491871
All of you are even BIGGER hypocrites now that I found this.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554560,00.html
All of you are even BIGGER hypocrites now that I found this.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554560,00.html
And once again the masses are distracted from the real issues. Kudos, Fox News.
And RR did it back in the day. Such a distration, you are correct
And once again the masses are distracted from the real issues. Kudos, Fox News.
Has everyone forgotten that Reagan and Lincoln also did this? I guess that was ok…
Hey – I like the Flag that Romney is selling much better than Obamas Flag… http://store.mittromney.com/basics/posters/believe-poster.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20120918_wmr_d_believe-post-faded15-promo_facebook&utm_content=wmr
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40950_Uh…_About_That__Obama_Flag
you guys are pathetic. nice try, though.
Yeah the tea party does that too…and Reagan
Abraham Lincoln did this too. Once again, you're all hypocrites filled with false outrage.
http://rlv.zcache.com/for_president_abram_lincoln_election_campaign_flag_poster-r1e303894dc9e478baa3034241ed4578f_ajym_400.jpg
Abraham Lincoln did this too. Once again, you're all hypocrites filled with false outrage.
http://rlv.zcache.com/for_president_abram_lincoln_election_campaign_flag_poster-r1e303894dc9e478baa3034241ed4578f_ajym_400.jpg
The Reagan /Bush posters DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING. They made a poster that looked like an American flag, but it wasn't really, so it was defaced.
The Reagan /Bush posters DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING. They made a poster that looked like an American flag, but it wasn't really, so it was defaced.
So I am in a debate with some left wing liberals about this flag issue. It is no longer available on the site mentioned above. Because I was going to post it to prove what I was talking about. Was it in fact true that it was on there?
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America's true living legends — a former P & G executive, an acclaimed author, a dynamic teacher, and one of the world's most highly rated speakers.
It was he who changed the way America does businessby creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "Partnering".
You may remember a previous letter he wrote in 2009to Obama and the New York Times which went viral.
From a speech given by Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012.
"I was born in year two of the Great Depression (1931) and spent the first 10 years of my life, influenced by the extreme hardships of the depression. By today's standards my family was about a mile below today's so called 'poverty level'; but if you never 'had' – - doing without was not so 'bad'. Borrowing shoes to graduate from the 8th grade didn't seem at all demeaning because most of the 8th graders did the same thing.
In June 1944, my only brother, Joe, was killed in action on Utah Beach in Normandy, France during the D-Day landings. Exactly one year later, my father died and left me, my mother, and my sister to go it alone – - and alone we went. My mother went to work at a department store, my sister dropped out of school and joined her, and I went to work shining shoes on the streets of Memphis for a dime a shine. Government assistance was not available, and if it were I am confident my mother would have refused it, because she never wanted the government involved in our lives.
I mention this bit of personal history to help you understand that millions of Americans, including your parents and grandparents, grew up like me during the Great Depression and never expected nor wanted the government to offer them anything other than an opportunity – - and now to see what Obama is trying to do to our country tends to make you crazy.
As some of you know, my "Scare Me" letter went viral with millions of hits on the internet during the past 3 years. I have now written a follow-up letter, which I will now share with you. It will be released to the press tomorrow morning. "
**********************************To the editors:"In April 2009, I sent President Obama and the New York Times a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a candidate, he promised to "fundamentally transform America." Now, after observing his performance for over three years, he no longer scares me – - he terrifies me for the following reasons:
FIRST He has done more to damage America's standing in the world, to lower the standard of living in America, to impoverish future generations, and to shake our faith in the country's future than any other American president in history.
SECOND With a compliant Democrat congress, a lapdog media, and a weak, almost nonexistent Republican opposition, he has shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership, and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has poisoned and divided our civil society with his politics of envy, class warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare – - which he is using as fundamental building blocks for his 'socialist' agenda.
THIRD Culturally, he remains totally out of touch with traditional American values. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained, and associates with – - still today.
FOURTH He has surrounded himself with naive academicians, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, and socialist leaning czars who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who offer no balanced suggestions or devils advocate positions, and think in lock step with him that big government is the answer to all our problems.
FIFTH He not only encourages, but aids and abets the unionization of all American industry, the albatross around the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money and muscle to intimidate his opponents.
SIXTH He has increased the national debt by over 30% in just three years. If re-elected, and this rate of increase continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable 20 trillion dollar debt which will result in the country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible – - America will be the Greece of 2016.
SEVENTH Given his fanatical beholding to the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production, while wasting billions of tax payer dollars on solar, wind, and algae experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas, and coal are not America's enemies, they are America's assets – - which, properly managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.
EIGHTH He views the U.S. as a power in retreat which abused its World dominance. Therefore he systematically apologizes round the world. This past March, he whispered to Russian President Medvedev – - "This is my last election. After my election, I will have more flexibility". Just what is the secret that Obama and Putin are concealing from the American people until after the election? With what other leaders has he made similar secret agreements?
NINTH And finally, after all his mis-steps, bad decision making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact that he has the audacity to seek re-election should terrify every American.
I predict that if re-elected, future historians and political interpreters will look back at the eight year period 2008-2016, and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed the takers to overpower the payers, which resulted in the greatest economy in history vanishing from the face of the Earth". Farewell America, the World will really miss you!"
Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012.
It is my hope and prayer that this letter will also go viral and serve as a 'wake up' call to Americans of all political leaning – - convincing them that never before in U.S. history has so much depended on Americans understanding that we are facing one of the greatest crisises in U.S. history. Convincing them that this election will be won not by letters to the editor, political speeches, or radio and TV soundbites.
No! It will be won by those with a conviction, with a belief, and with a willingness to pay the price in helping put the most enlightened voters in the polling booth on November 6.
Let me end on my favorite quote – - which I think is very appropriate for each of us today:
"TO EVERY MAN, THERE COMES IN HIS LIFETIME, THAT SPECIAL MOMENT, WHEN HE IS PHYSICALLY TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER AND OFFERED THE CHANCE TO DO A VERY SPECIAL THING, UNIQUE TO HIM AND FITTED TO HIS TALENT; WHAT A TRAGEDY IF THAT MOMENT FINDS HIM UNPREPARED OR UNQUALIFIED FOR THE WORK WHICH WOULD BE HIS FINEST HOUR."
Those words spoken by Winston Churchill over 70 years ago are very appropriate for all Americans today.
For, if each of us is prepared and is qualified, then 6 November 2012 just might be our, and our Nation's, finest hour as we reclaim this "shining city on the hill" from the ravages of Obama Socialism.
IT IS NOW OR NEVER FELLOW PATRIOTS! GOD HELP US IF WE FAIL!
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If you don't believe in American exceptionalism, it's a pretty good indication that you are not among the exceptional. One must own their own mediocrity.
http://i.imgur.com/lUp7U.jpg
And you B.B., you want to keep supporting dead beats? or maybe you are one of those? Don't know, hope not, but you would have to be to keep supporting Obama! There were no handouts in this country not too many years ago and we were doing fine then, now all of a sudden all these people need help, how many do you honestly know abusing the system? I would bet you know several, right! Everyone knows people doing just that, you see it everyday, unless you never go outside. It is always someone else's fault, that is the Democratic way. Well I say, get up off your lazy ass and take responsibility for your own life. If you really want to work and support your family, there are jobs out there. Of course if you want to start out as the CEO then it may be difficult to find a job. Excuses for everything! I have been on my own since I was 14 because of adopted parents divorced and being kicked to the curb as a kid and watching my adopted Mother carry on an affair with a married man all my childhood, I got sick of it and left. I have supported myself, raised my kids MYSELF! I have worked many min. wage jobs and things I did not enjoy doing, but I paid my own way and didn't ask for any handouts and I didn't have the education to get those high paying jobs, funny what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it. Democrats have made it far too easy to just sit on your butt, drink beer, do drugs and complain about how hard life is and they can't get ahead, well start trying! Japan was an example of a country that does not provide welfare and they do fine, how corrupt their country is and how they spend their money is a different matter, but I see some of you can do nothing more than cry about your lot in life and defend morons who are destroying everything all the Americans before us fought and died for. Wake up Dude, quit defending these handout programs and look what state this country is in and how we got there, and don't even think about defending it with all the non-sense spewed out by the Democrats, do your homework instead of just listening to a bunch of inveracity thrown out there to keep you from the truth. Facts? I have plenty of facts and all you have are prevarications, wake up!
aw, Todd, you mean liks how Sarah Palin and Reagan/Bush did? Lovely pictures of their "descrating the flag" right here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/09/27/zomg-obama-is-desecrating-the-flag/.
too cowardly to look?
I thought so.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/112572/2016/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40950_Uh…_About_That_-Obama_Flag
It's no worse than this (Reagan Bush '84) http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/files/2012/09/reagan-flag-logo.jpg, and a damn site better than Palin's version.http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/files/2012/09/palin-tea-party-flag.jpg.
So when Reagan did it in '84 and Palin did it '08 it was just as horrible? Thought so. Go be outraged over something like child poverty, or elder abuse, not something manufactured to draw eyeballs. Idiots.
this is an obama flag not an american flag he can hang this one infront of him home not our white house.
if you want a war…take our flag away.
This is disgusting and insulting.
right with you mike Its already burning!
right with you mike Its already burning!
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/files/2012/09/reagan-flag-logo.jpg
This isn't a flag. Its a picture. Unlike the Tea Party flag that you can hang up.
Where were you retardicans when Peter Max painted his "American" flags?
Those flags have only have nine strips…..and the stars (only four from the sample I'm looking at)….they're BLUE…..OMG….Liberal bias…..
If I ever find the two designers that made this piece of shit I'm knocking them the fuck out.
If I ever find the two designers that made this piece of shit I'm knocking them the fuck out.
The only thing that scares me are the comments I am reading below…
Why doesnt he go start his own country with his stupid flag…….this is america and we dont want him…..EVER
Why doesnt he go start his own country with his stupid flag…….this is america and we dont want him…..EVER
you people bitch and moan about this flag, but you hate other Americans who don't believe the same way you do. You're a bunch of phonies who have no idea what true patriotism is. it's an election campaign gimmick, not unlike a lot of past candidates have done. you people let little sh*t get your blood pressure up, and it's all due to hatred pure and simple. I don't care what gimmick the Dems use, nor which ones the Reps use, all I care about are real issues and where each candidates stands on them. at the end of the day, this flag doesn't mean sh*t…it's a gimmick. grow up ffs!
I am so outraged and absolutely in disbelief on how blind some people can be. Who in this country would stand behind someone like this? My son has served, my dad has served, my grandfather has served. Let me say this, as my granddad was on his death bed, his words were this, " We have fought for many years and I fought for many years to keep a communist out of office, and now one is in charge of our great country." I am so upset and I really wish is those who follow obama and stand behind him would wake up to the truth and get him the heck out of office.
you have a son! I knew it!
I’m amazed, I must say. Rarely do I encounter a blog that’s equally educative and amusing, and let me
tell you, you’ve hit the nail on the head. The issue is an issue that not enough folks are speaking intelligently about. I’m very happy I found this in my hunt for something
concerning this.