Barack Obama can squash that stupid lapel pin crap by including in ads and/or appearances/debates a comment about what it means. Something like:
"In the last 8 years, America has amassed record low points in the economy, health care, world stage, and the overall health of our military, courtesy of bush, cheyney, rumsfeld, gonzo, rice, and mccain. One thing they all have in common is their insistence on wearing lapel pins. Now, those of you not involved in republican politics wear a lapel pin to show your pride in the flag. But many republican party members wear them as a shallow, superficial illusion to trick you into identifying with them - hoping you'll be more comfortable with them.
"Well, let's look back 8 years. How much devastation, poverty, and civil rights abuses do you need to pile up before we realize that a lapel pin is NOT an actual qualification for patriotism or competency? These have been some of the worst years in our nation's history. And to those who have spit on the flag with signing statements, rejected the founder's checks and balances, flung our children needlessly into harms way in a far-away land are worse than hypocrites.
"Hardened, old-school republicans have forfeited their right to credibly challenge any American's patriotism. They have wrought more damage to this country than any middle eastern dictator or angry fundamentalist zealot has. All while pompously trying to shroud themselves in the shadow of the sacred symbol of our republic.
"A highly controversial man, to put it mildly, Larry Flynt, in the 1970s went to court wearing the flag as a diaper. I submit to you that the swift boater who incorrectly and hideously attacked John Kerry and now work for john mccain, karl rove, donald rumsfeld who glad-handed saddam hussein in the 1980s when the reagan administration enabled the transfer of chemical and biological weapons technology to Iraq, and all the rest of the larger than life attackers of our nation and our Constitution may as well be wearing the flag as a diaper."
OK, maybe the last paragraph isn't Obama's style... but it doesn't mean it's wrong!
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