September 16, 2008
Pins, Obama and Palin
By Ted Belman
Wearing a flag pin was something Obama stopped doing several years ago, after the September 11 attacks:
Asked about the decision Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped doing so shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.
“The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11…that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.”
Compare with this anecdote regarding Palin
I just attended a rally for her (Gov Palin) here in Anchorage where she spoke before going back on the campaign trail. I wore an Israeli/USA flags lapel pin on my shirt. Knowing that Sarah Palin flies a small Israeli flag in the window of her Juneau office. When she made it to me I stuck my hand out, with the pin I’d removed from my shirt in my hand, and left it in her hand when we shook. She was taken aback, wondering, what the heck is this? After she looked down to see what it was, she looked back up at me and kind of gasped, holding her hand over her heart and saying “THANK YOU!” I shouted back, “STAND WITH ISRAEL!” She nodded and paused and looked me right in the eyes and said very seriously with a stiff and confident nod, “I WILL wear this.” She is a real person, very sincere. I was glad to hear her tell Charlie Gibson repeatedly that we should NEVER 2nd guess ANYTHING Israel decides it needs to do to protect themselves.
I also ran into her and her youngest daughter, Piper, at Wal-Mart last 4th of July shoe shopping for Piper. Haha, the governor and her daughter w/o enterouge at a Wal-Mart on the 4th of July. http://www.israpundit.com/2008/