Dear Sir,
I've had it.
I'm sick of it.
I've had a streak of irritably and discomfort for a while. A long while. It is not because I'm wearing an American flag Lapel pin, since I'm not wearing one. The anger and discomfort, sir, is like a white noise in the background. Both my friends and family have noticed it. My mother and father. My sister. My girlfriend. My friends. I'm as irritable as hell. It's not that I show anger all the time but it seems I express anger that is amplified. There's a stale edge to it as if I had it stored deep inside of me and allow it to seep out with the moment that I find... ...convenient.
For the last few years I have been hit with some of the most radical propaganda I thought I never would see in this country. Is it because I'm simply paying attention? I don't think so. I do want to make a point and dispel a myth that you are a journalist. You are far from it. You are anything but a journalist. A journalist would check his facts. Not color his remarks or infer meaning of remarks made by another party which they did not intend nor speak outright.
Sir, I am going to give you a juicy piece of outright BS propaganda. It is the same piece you gave us all.
You said:
"Sen. Barack Obama put away his lapel flag pin. The senator says instead of a flag pin, his words will be a testament to his patriotism. I don't know what's wrong with the senator or why he can find any discomfort at all, but that's his right as an American."
Sen. Obama said:
"The truth is that right after 9-11 I had a pin, shortly after 9-11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security. I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.
He did not express discomfort. There is nothing wrong with him. There is no sign of anything wrong, sir.
Continuing;
Obama: "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."
I STILL don't see anything wrong, sir. I don't hear "discomfort" or Sen. Obama expressing "discomfort." He only wishes to express his patriotism in what he believes in, in what he believes will make this country great by his vision of America.
Yet sir, you said this:
"But any politician of any political party who believes their words can be an adequate substitute for the symbolic power of the American flag is sadly arrogant and horribly mistaken."
There were a few men in this country, not too long ago, who had a belief in what made this country great, sir. A vision. They not only believed in it, they risked everything by saying it. There were only a few "silly" words written. The in-"adequate" words were these:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Now sir, I'm sure you believe that the above "sadly arrogant and horribly mistaken" use of words above are a pale comparison to that little lapel pin of yours. They're only words, after all, made by men who too did not have those wonderful patriotic pins of yours. They were only expressing their "silly vision" of America by way of an in-"adequate substitute" of words.
Now, sir. Do you see why I'm angry as hell? Is your "flag" pin "Made in America" sir? Did you bother to even CHECK, sir?
I do believe you OWE Sen. Obama an apology, sir.
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