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Paul Won't Condemn Obama on Flag Pin
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ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Friday that he would not condemn Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for dropping his American flag lapel pin in the wake of the Iraq war.
"A lot of people might condemn him," said Paul, "I'm neither going to condemn him nor praise him because I don't know his inner motivation."
"He may be very, very sincere in what he is saying," he added.
Paul, who, like Obama, opposed the Iraq war before it began, made his comments to ABC News two days after the Illinois Democrat told ABC's affiliate in Cedar rapids that he stopped wearing an American flag lapel pin in the run-up to the Iraq war because he believed the pin had become a "substitute" for "true patriotism."
"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said Wednesday. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.”
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October 5, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (28)
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Once again, Mr. Paul proves he is an honest, forthright, intelligent man.
His use of reason is what makes him different than all the other candidates, who are guided by nothing but emotion. I doubt any one of them could come up with as perfect a response as Mr. Paul gave.
Posted by: Greg8898 | Oct 5, 2007 5:13:16 PM
You guys are missing the point. Obama is an active member of the Council of Foreign Relations. So are all "top tier" candidates, democrat and republican alike. Get on You Tube or google the history behind this organization and see for yourself why top-tier candidates are just speaking hogwash. They are talking, but not saying anything.
Posted by: Steven | Oct 5, 2007 9:35:58 PM
Paul/Obama? Try Paul/Kucinich. ;)
Posted by: Daryl Sawyer | Oct 6, 2007 12:09:56 AM
It is obvious mainstream networks are going the way of the dinosaur here pretty soon. I don't know whats more irrelevant, this story, or the media itself. What a joke.
Ron Paul is the one of the few sane people left in politics.
Posted by: Henry | Oct 6, 2007 9:03:49 AM
More than anything, this goes to show me that Mr. Paul walks the walk after talking the talk. I don't think I've ever heard a more eloquent or pointed response to a non-issue.
I cannot fathom how much this country would change for the better with Mr. Paul as the president and being the role model for the free world to follow.
Posted by: Dan | Oct 6, 2007 11:28:54 AM
MSM is doing its job...spoonfeeding the conditioned masses/Skinner mice into glasly running throught the maze(election charade) or proudly dismissing the whole thing and watching American Idol/Football..
either way the freedoms and liberties we have left here in America are dwindling and ONLY DR. PAUL is addressing them AND offering honest and Constitutional proposals and solutions to not only keep the ones left but regain the ones so indifferently given away by the "voters"...
I did it..so can/should you..ReRegister Republican and vote for Dr. Paul...to send a RECORDABLE and TELLING message to the Elites of America and the Republican Party that you said NO to their lackeys/shills/puppets ie the REST of the motley crew and YES to individual freedom, extricating our GOVT from foriegn entanglements and our country's soveriegnty by voting FOR Dr. and Congressman Ron Paul.
Posted by: Chris Bieber | Oct 6, 2007 7:18:35 PM
When are they going to ask Britney Spears and Paris Hilton what they think about wearing the pin? That would provide more meaningful insight than anything reported thus far.
Posted by: John P Slevin | Oct 6, 2007 10:12:28 PM
Steven, are you referring to the Council on Foreign Relations, of which the vast majority of us know about, or some other group with a similar name?
Posted by: Suzy Evans | Oct 7, 2007 9:39:03 AM
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