Fox News reports that the White House has finally ordered that flags fly at half-staff until July 25th. I can’t find anything on it at the White House website, but there it is.
In a proclamation issued early Tuesday afternoon, Obama said of the Chattanooga victims, “We honor their service. We offer our gratitude to the police officers and first responders who stopped the rampage and saved lives. We draw strength from yet another American community that has come together with an unmistakable message to those who would try and do us harm: We do not give in to fear. You cannot divide us. And you will not change our way of life.”
He ordered flags flown at half-staff at the White House and “all public buildings and grounds,” as well as over military posts and naval stations and vessels — until July 25. Flags will be flown at half-staff at U.S. embassies and other overseas diplomatic offices.
Congress leaders are already on the ball, so it was only a matter of time before the White House got on board, but it appears that it happened reluctantly, or, like I said, there would have been something on the White House website already – they had more than five days to do something.
Editor’s Note: My mistake, there is a Proclamation on the website now, that wasn’t there when I wrote this.
In other Chattanooga related news, an uncle of the shooter has been in the custody of Jordan’s law enforcement since the day after the shooting according to the Associated Press;
Abdel Qader al-Khatib told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was barred from seeing his client and that family members were prevented from visiting. Al-Khatib identified his client as Asaad Ibrahim Abdulazeez Haj Ali, a maternal uncle of the Tennessee attacker, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.
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59 responses to “President orders flags lowered until July 25th”
About damn time…
Shamed into it.
Is this president capable of shame?
He has no shame to shame at all. He definitely has other motives.
No, he is not.
he has no SHAME even though he is ASHAMED of the United States.
With all the poll numbers, and long hours of building consensus, that he get a decision from Valerie Jarrett, who against her better judgment decided it would be better to lower the Flag than not to.
Fookin’ decent of him, wasn’t it?
I’m sure he took a poll and checked with the United Nothing HQ in New York to make sure that doing so wouldn’t offend too many goat-molesting fleabag muslims!!!
THANKS OBAMA!!
🙄
I’m sure that the fact that he is giving a speech at the VFW National Convention today has nothing to do with it.
Sorry but if the VFW had balls, they’d walk out on him while he was giving that speech. He’s lied to them and to veterans so many times it is ridiculous.
Plus, his “policies” are making more veterans everyday because of the sequestration (started in the white house) and severe reduction in force going on.
King Barry? F.T.P.
They could have done what the NYPD did to de Blasio, just turned their backs on him when walked out on stage.
I understand the VFW gave him Ali standing ovation!?
Fuck this Oshitto. Four standing ovulations for him!!!
Didn’t have to wait to be told to do this.
I’ve been flying my flag at half-staff ever since I first heard the news of the shootings.
He didn’t see the need for it until the public outrage explained it to him.
“And you will not change our way of life.”
“I’ll be taking care of that don’t ya know.”
Barack Obama
Asshole in Chief.
Good God I can’t stand this Marxist SOB!
Chimp-in-Chief
The depths of depravity and shame this man and his ilk have brought to this nation are representative of the lowest forms of base emotions I have ever witnessed in my 59 years on the planet.
I only hope that America rids itself of not only him but the happy idiots that have cheated their way to the tops of the dung heap that is their way of life.
The disgust I feel toward that slimeball is 100 times greater than how I feel about the shooter.
I will be so glad when he is GONE!
The AIC will live the life of Reilly when he leaves office….living like a king with his queen…..actually, not much different than they live now.
Boy, I’d love to see a stained blue dress show up all of a sudden…..perhaps if he were to meet “Caitlyn” Jenner it could happen. 😉
18 more months of this egregious slop. I will take odds that he bails out before the next inauguration is even planned.
So basically what you’re saying is, he’s America’s Hamid Karzai?
Wow. Mind. Blown.
Well, he doesn’t even give enough of a crap to show up and support his own presidential library, so what do you think?
Not sure if he is into women, in order to stains blue dress
I wanted to (kinda) give him the benefit of the doubt, thus, he/she Caitlyn Jenner.
You’re probably right, though. He likely prefers a person that wears boxers and briefs as opposed to panties.
yeah, I think so.
I know I shouldn’t judge,,, BUT his wife is built like a line backer for the Chicago Bears in full pads. I have been around only one type of person that finds that attractive. Which would explain why he was so quick the rainbow up the White House.
I’m currently drinking a delicious “Kentucky Rye Barrel IPA” and smoking a very nice ceeegar on my deck and dammit! I spit some of that IPA in my laptop’s screen after reading your comment.
Damn you! 🙂 GREAT friggin’ comment!
I offer you an apology. As a big IPA fan, almost a snob, I would never want to waste one. Especially on anything to do with these jack-wagons
And remember folks “Hilda Beast” er Hillary is on deck.
*sigh* I served my time in Washington, so I know that when a person is a public figure, there are also staff members who are alert to events like this and the associated protocols.
In a normal administration, as soon as this shooting hit the news, somebody would approach the President with the appropriate orders to lower the flags, etc., already drafted.
Obama probably had to stiff-arm somebody to keep from hearing about what he should be doing.
He was probably on the golf course and couldn’t be disturbed. And we know he wouldn’t consider that important enough to interrupt his back swing.
Holy crap ! ! ! !
About Time ! ! ! !
I’m going to risk a flaming here, but this is an unnecessary gesture that cheapens the deaths of other service members. We didn’t lower the Flag for our friends killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, and we shouldn’t be doing it here either. We are fighting an ongoing war or terror and these men are the latest casualties. The fact that it happened in America is beside the point, this is a GLOBAL war after all.
Some terrorist cocksucker killed a good friend of mine with an IED just almost exactly 11 years ago. They lowered the flag in his home state, but not in DC. That’s how it should be. Either every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine gets the White House Flag at half staff, or nobody does. By all means, lower every flag in their home state, but the federal government should treat all military deaths in a uniform matter.
I respectfully disagree with you on this, only because I believe that the Attack occurring on US Soil is a major factor.
I am actually more pissed though that he is doing this out of political pressure, rather than a true desire to honor the dead. It took no time at all for the White House to be lit up in a Rainbow, yet it took a week to decide to lower the Flags after an attack on US Soil?
Priorities of this Administration could not be any clearer.
Just like most things going on in the world, Obama had to watch Fox News to see that “his” own house’s flag wasn’t at half staff.
NOT his house…ours.
lol. that’s why I put the quotations around it.
No doubt there is a video of him prior kicking and screaming and some adult in his adminstrstion telling him that at least has to act like he cares.
…but he doesn’t care, you see.
Instant reaction and preparation to light the White House up like a rainbow, but it takes days and outside pressure to order the flags to fly half mast after this tragedy…
I am totally disgusted by this administration BUT not at all surprised.
True enough. The sad thing is that this is just exactly what we have all come to expect.
You people are idiots!
The order was not given earlier (nor was even considered) because NO ONE on staff had a friggin’ clue.
It was probably discovered (that it would be MOST or at least symbolically appropriate) after a twenty something (iPhone implanted in face type) on staff stumbled across harsh critisism on line with respect to the matter at hand.
So, don’t assume these military and national honors THINGY things are going to happen like they used to in the good ole’ days … They won’t!
PS: I really don’t think you are all idiots … well maybe some of you … OK, I will shut up now!
I am just as disgusted with the chicken shyts in congress, these no ball phonies let this muslim, queer, communist , non American get away with the shyt and don’t say a thing, we need a 2 million man march on DC to clean out the whole den of thieves and perverts imho!!
About damn time that King Putt acknowledged the fallen in TN…
On a personal note, today marks the Fiftieth anniversary of my induction lnto the United States Army. 21 July, 1965. I got out four years later on the day the USA put the first two men on the moon.
Welcome home!
Unimpressed. It took mere hours to light the Whitehouse in rainbow colors celebrating the SCOTUS gay marriage finding. As my old Recruit Company Commander would say, “Well Lah Dee Motherfucking Dah.”
LDMFD
Better late than never, I suppose.
Probably took a few days for someone to catch up to Obama and explain that Marine =/= Umbrella Stand.
Flags aren’t ordered at half mast for Chris Kyle, they are for Whitney houston, then days after this shooting they finally are? What in the fuck.
Don’t blame the POTUS for the Houston flag fiasco. He didn’t order that one.
http://jacksonville.com/news/2013-04-28/story/fact-check-did-obama-order-flags-be-flown-half-staff-whitney-houston-not-navy
This POTUS does enough clueless stuff in his own right. There’s no need to accuse him of stuff he never did.
Ah, thank you for that link
I’d like to see the flag remain at half mast, half staff, or whatever, until the SOB is out of the White House. He and Congress are killing the country. It is appropriate to mourn.
With the current administration in place, the flag should be flying upside down….that’s a little more appropriate I think.
In view of everything that has happened in the past 2+ years, would Biden really be worse? What if this dilettante, train-spotting slacker decided he just doesn’t feel like finishing his term and quits?
‘“We are not going to relent until we bring home Americans who are unjustly detained in Iran,”’ Obama said at the VFW convention in Pittsburgh.” That was YESTERDAY.
That’s today’s joke. This oBaMa guy is a laugh riot.