What? No Lapel Pin?

TPM: "How can I vote for a president who won't wear a flag pin?" Mrs. [Nash] McCabe, a [52 year old] recently unemployed clerk typist, said in a booth at the Valley Dairy luncheonette in this quiet, small city in western Pennsylvania.

Mr. Obama has said patriotism is about ideas, not flag pins.

"I watch him on TV," Mrs. McCabe said. "I keep looking for that lapel pin."

And there you have it, folks, the lowest common denominator. When you are too stupid to understand the issues, or too apathetic to care, when you can't tell the difference between something important and something trivial, you tend to try to make your life simpler by making decisions based on whether someone wears a lapel pin, if you think they'd be fun to have a drink with, or what their bowling average may be, or even worse, their gender or the color of their skin.

I mean, hell, how can you trust someone who doesn't wear his or her feelings on their sleeve in the form of a flag pin or a $3.99 "Support The Troops" yellow ribbon magnet on the back of their SUV? But as my friend Armadillo Joe says, "Just make sure its a magnet, not an actual sticker - you wouldn't want to hurt the resale value of your car." Patriotism does have its limits.

But what's going to happen to the Nash McCabes of the country when they get a load of this?










Their poor little raisinbrains are going to explode. How can we trust someone who doesn't wear a lapel flag pin? What is this country coming to? ...Eh, at least he's an old, white man. That's something they can "cling" to.



(H/T Mustang Bobby and SFDB)