Nash McCabe, you idiot, YOU are the reason we have Bush.

[leftupnorth]

The flag pin question.

WTF?

"Do you believe in the American flag?"

Like "Do you believe in the tooth fairy?"

SERIOUSLY!?!?!?!?

THAT is ALL you could think of to ask the possible next president of the United States?

Oh yeah, and shame on ABC for using her question.

[Cant trust em]

1. We should have more user generated debates.

Shit, let me moderate one of these things. I'll do a great job, I promise.

[leftupnorth]

3. Couldn't do any worse. I'm sure. nt

[Cant trust em]

4. Those two numbskulls sure did set the bar high, didn't they?

[TML]

2. I question her false idolary

Real patriots support their country through deeds, not by wrapping the American flag around themselves. Barack Obama is a true patriot and leader.

[Justitia]

5. Yeah, she's unemployed, yet the ONLY question she can think of is freaking FLAG PINS??? -eom

[redstate_democrat]

6. SHAMEFUL

This unemployed clerk typist can't vote for someone who will help her keep her home, put food on the table, give her health insurance, and generally keep America from going down the toilet because....Obama doesn't wear a plastic flag pin on his lapel.

The idiocy of many, many people in this country is the problem. I know these people have a right to believe and vote the way they choose, but it is so fucking unfair when most of the country are idiots. I mean, I feel like we are in the movie Idiocracy. What next, an election ballot with pictures?

A picture of a shot gun, flag pin, "illegal alien", and Pat Robertson = for the Republicans

A picture of a tree, latte, San Francisco, social security card = for the Democrats

SAVE US FROM THIS HELL PA!

[Golden Raisin]

7. Prominently displayed flag pins are essential and

apparently prove patriotism but flag-draped coffins are taboo. I weep for my country.

[mcctatas]

8. .....

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
© John Prine

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

[FrenchieCat]

9. ABC sought her out. They knew what question they wanted to ask....

it was like, oh, have that woman ask a question.

That was so messed up shit. :mad:

[SoCalDem]

10. price negotiable

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3172057&mesg_id=3172057

[Shakespeare]

11. She's popped up in the media before, and she's weirdly obsessed with that lapel pin.

TPM linked to 4/4/08 story where she was interviewed about....the lapel pin!

Ask whom she might vote for in the coming presidential primary election and Nash McCabe, 52, seems almost relieved to be able to unpack the dossier she has been collecting in her head.

It is not about whom she likes, but more a bill of particulars about why she cannot vote for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

"How can I vote for a president who won't wear a flag pin?" Mrs. McCabe, a recently unemployed clerk typist, said in a booth at the Valley Dairy luncheonette in this quiet, small city in western Pennsylvania.

Mr. Obama has said patriotism is about ideas, not flag pins.

"I watch him on TV," Mrs. McCabe said. "I keep looking for that lapel pin."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/us/politics/04penn.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&fta=y&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[mcctatas]

12. Almost enough to make me want people to have to pass

a test to vote...almost, and I know it's a horrible thing to say, but maybe we could have a simple logic question, or....never mind, I sound like an asshole....