Flagless Rove disses flagless Obama
April 3rd, 2008 at 08:05am Pat Cunningham
It’s almost funny how some pseudo-patriots continue to work themselves into a glorious lather over Barack Obama’s failure to wear a flag pin on his lapel.
Strangely, these critics often fail to wear such pins themselves, AS WAS THE CASE the other day with former Bush henchman Karl Rove.
This mistaken notion that conspicuous display of the American flag is the highest form of patriotism reminds me of the old John Prine song, “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore.”
Prine wrote this clever little ditty in 1968 as a protest against the Vietnam War. But it’s no less applicable today.
The lyrics:
While digesting Reader’s Digest
In the back of the dirty book store
A plastic flag with gum on the back
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield
And if I could see Old Betsy Ross
I’d tell her how good I feel
(Chorus)
But your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason’s for,
And your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
“If you join the Christmas club
We’ll give you ten of them flags for free.”
Well, I didn’t mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife’s forehead.
(Repeat chorus)
Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn’t see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I’ll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said…
“But your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
We’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason’s for,
And your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.”
Entry Filed under: Karl Rove, American flag, John Prine, patriotism, Barack Obama
10 Comments Add your own
1. Mike Carroll | April 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
Pat-one of the better aspects of your blog is that I am exposed to sites that I would not otherwise see. Always good to read what the opposition is saying. Case in point above. Reading the comments at that site is truly frightening however and these people are allowed to vote.
2. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Mike: I hear ya. But then, some of the comments on this site, too, are pretty frightening. Not yours, of course. They’re only sadly misinformed.
3. Mike Carroll | April 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Touche’
4. hokumboy | April 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Maybe youse guys would know.
What flag is this?
http://coptix.com/rove/images/Karl-Rove-after.jpg
5. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hoke: I enlarged the photo as much as I could, but I couldn’t make out for sure what flag it is. It’s NOT the Stars and Stripes. Hmmm.
6. hokumboy | April 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
I did a Google Image search on Karl and more than 90% of the time he’s not wearing anything on his lapel. But, when he is this shows up several times.
7. equalityrkfd= | April 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
It must be the the eternal lapel flag of Turd Blossoms! Or maybe the flag of Hypocrocy!
8. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
equalityrkfd= : Perhaps some of our readers are not aware that “Turd Blossom” is Bush’s nickname for Karl Rove. Check it out here:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tcT5-aHvMkoJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turd_Blossom+bush+rove+turd+blossom&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
9. Mike Carroll | April 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I would not expect that the vast majority of visitors to this site would identify that pin. It signifys that one is a Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I wear mine proudly.
10. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I should have guessed.
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