[lbo-talk] the flag pin, etc.

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Mon May 19 09:59:04 PDT 2008


--- Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > [from The Note]
> >
> > "Obama plans
> > to use speeches and campaign events to reinforce
> his patriotic image
> > to America by evoking his grandparent's military
> background.
>
> Lame! Whose grandparents DON'T have military
> backgrounds? The Swiss'
> and Costa Ricans'?
>

[WS:] That is not the point. The point is that in order to be elected one has to wrap him/herself in the flag and genuflect before the military. It may be nauseating for you or me, but hey, that is the white working class Amerika.

Wojtek



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