{"id":7946,"date":"2009-02-18T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2009-02-18T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:28:28","slug":"our-newest-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7946","title":{"rendered":"Our newest patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Times<\/a> notices this morning that the president, who before his election wouldn’t wear a flag pin on his lapel, suddenly surrounds himself in American flags at every opportunity;<\/p>\n

Oh, say – can you see? Look. It’s President Obama, and he’s surrounded by American flags.<\/p>\n

They’re on the dais in star-spangled glory. They’re at the town-hall meeting and the news conference, in bold folds of red, white and blue. The White House has rediscovered – or possibly reinvented – the patriotic cachet of Old Glory as a perfect frame for the new president.<\/p>\n

That’s the same president who once would not wear an American flag pin. Things have changed.<\/p>\n

“The biggest factor is that Barack Obama is now the president,” said Jack Glaser, a social psychologist with the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n

“He’s around more flags now. They’re behind him or on the podium. That’s the reality. He’s not running around on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

“Now that he’s president, Mr. Obama most likely knows he’s an American symbol. So he wears an American flag pin. He appears before American flags. That’s part of the job.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, it was part of his job before he was elected to the Presidency, seein’s how he was a United States Senator, not to mention that he was a US citizen – the rest of us don’t need to be president to start acting like we’re proud of being Americans. It was just a year ago this week that Michelle Obama made the comment<\/a> that she’s finally proud of this country.<\/p>\n

I guess what we can take away from all of this new-found sense of pride in this country by the Obamas is that as long as we keep doing things for them, they have no problem with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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