Washblog

Said his wife was setting up a special meeting of the Ladies' Home Culture Club to draw up a petition fer the village of Bay Center to pass a resolution declarin Obama a Arnold Benedict to our country cause he ain't got no flyin flutterin flag badge a courage on his suit lapel.

Rumor has it that Obama also ain't willin to hold his hand on his stomach when he says the pledge.

Don't  recall hearing that Obama refused to say the pledge - which ought to be the better test than where he puts his hands.

Heck, when I was in high school I knowed a kid put his hand on his girl friend's chest every time they played the anthem at the ball games. He thought it was funny.

Nowadays you see all them cheeks-puffed, red-face pundit-patriots doin their blatherin about whether or not a lapel badge (maybe made cheaper in China) makes a fellow patriotic?

I do know that other than McCain the active Republican Party is full a drug-store patriots; lapel/flag-wearers who advocate and vote fer war now but never served back then when they had the chance. (Probably wantin to put their hands on somebody's chest but not take no military oaths, eh?)

Some of the biggest chest pounders for war based on flag-wavin have themselves been unwilling to put their boots where their mouths are.

Wish I could slap a few with their own bumper stickers.

 The man who shot Liberty Valance
weren't wearin no tin star either.