People Are Upset With Hillary For failing To Wear American Flag Pin

Neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama was wearing a flag lapel pin during last night’s nationally televised debate of the Democratic candidates for president.

But Obama, who has been criticized in the past for not wearing one – and who did wear one that a veteran handed him at a town-hall campaign event in Pennsylvania the other day – was the one facing the question in the two-hour debate in Philadelphia run by ABC News.

Nash McCabe, a voter, posed the question in a video: “Sen. Obama, I have a question, and I want to know if you believe in the American flag. I am not questioning your patriotism, but all our servicemen, policemen and EMS wear the flag. I want to know why you don’t.” And ABC News moderator Charles Gibson explained the point of the question:

“It comes up again and again when we talk to voters. And, as you may know, it is all over the Internet. And it’s something of a theme that Sens. Clinton and McCain’s advisers agree could give you a major vulnerability if you’re the candidate in November. How do you convince Democrats that this would not be a vulnerability?”

“I would not be standing here if it wasn’t for this country…. There’s no other country in which my story is even possible. Somebody who was born to a teenage mom, raised by a single mother and grandparents from small towns in Kansas, you know, who was able to get an education and rise to the point where I can run for the highest office in the land, I could not help but love this country for all that it’s given me.” Full Story