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Post by Regina Phalange on Jul 22, 2015 21:24:11 GMT
Everywhere else I have seen this topic broached, it has been by extreme conservatives using it to jab at the President so the assumption about the motivation behind this thread is not out of the blue. Given some of the responses, it seems like he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Since he's not running for office again, I'll take any opinion about his insincere motivations for doing so with a grain of salt. Yesterday the President happened to speak to the national VFW conference so maybe he heard some different points of view from the veterans with whom he met. FWIW, my town issued a proclamation and lowered the flag TODAY so maybe they're insincere as well. ^^^this.
As soon as I read the OP I said "Well, he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't."
My opinion. Stop lowering the flags. If you aren't going to do it for every person in every circumstance, then just don't do it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 1:51:56 GMT
The thread did sort of take a left turn to discuss protocol of flag lowering. However if one wants to be honest the intent of the thread was a "gotcha"? against The President as demonstrated by 6 of the posters including the OP. The title says a lot. If one wants to be honest, you could read in my OP that I was on the fence about the flag being lowered...as much as I respect those that lost their lives in Chattanooga...the flag wasn't lowered for every other soldier killed by a terrorist. To wait 5 days seems insincere and I almost wished it would not have been lowered at all.
I don't really see where you're getting a "gotcha", but have at it. You see what you want to see. That's never been a secret. 
I actually I did read your post but if you had read mine you would have seen what I said about your title. "Well" might not been the best word to led with. You could have written the title in such away that it wouldn't have come across as this was just another hatchet job on the President. Which seems to be your favorite past time. Apparently there are two words that shouldn't be used to start a sentence if one doesn't want to come across as antagonistic. They are "well" &"so". Who knew? While you are saying one thing in the body of your post your title to this thread revealed your true intent. At least own it instead trying to be cute. |
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