tinydancer
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ETA: disclaimer: this is not about Michelle to me. It's about symbols and how we embrace them, don't embrace them and how we react to each other over this issue. We have July4th coming up and Canada Day and this search I did was the perfect example for showing an incident that reflects what I wanted to discuss.
And from the responses some are giving, this still appears to be a regrettable moment that really divided people. Again, it's not about Michelle to me. It's about symbols.
I did a search and I can't find another thread on this. This is beyond a regrettable moment. I don't even remember this from last year. Does anyone else?
The internet was buzzing this week with video of First Lady Michelle Obama apparently showing extreme disrespect to the American flag at a ceremony in honor of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
As police and firefighters fold the flag to the sound of marching bagpipers, a skeptical looking Mrs. Obama leans to her husband and appears to say, “all this just for a flag.” She then purses her lips and shakes her head slightly as Mr. Obama nods.
I really like what the author of the piece has to say about this situation.
Perhaps Mrs. Obama thinks that all the pomp and circumstance she experiences in her daily life has something to do with her, rather than the unofficial office she holds.
If so she should disabuse herself of that notion quickly. The official gestures of respect shown to her are the same shown to any First Lady, and if she wasn’t married to the president she would be just another citizen.
Ruffles and flourishes are not hers by right, but by coincidence of marriage. Yet this is the same woman who said she had never in her adult life been really proud of America before her husband ran for president, so it is no wonder she might dismiss a flag ceremony as just so much nonsense.
All this just for a flag? Has anyone said, “All this just for Michelle Obama?”
TRR: Michelle Obama:
And from the responses some are giving, this still appears to be a regrettable moment that really divided people. Again, it's not about Michelle to me. It's about symbols.
I did a search and I can't find another thread on this. This is beyond a regrettable moment. I don't even remember this from last year. Does anyone else?
The internet was buzzing this week with video of First Lady Michelle Obama apparently showing extreme disrespect to the American flag at a ceremony in honor of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
As police and firefighters fold the flag to the sound of marching bagpipers, a skeptical looking Mrs. Obama leans to her husband and appears to say, “all this just for a flag.” She then purses her lips and shakes her head slightly as Mr. Obama nods.
I really like what the author of the piece has to say about this situation.
Perhaps Mrs. Obama thinks that all the pomp and circumstance she experiences in her daily life has something to do with her, rather than the unofficial office she holds.
If so she should disabuse herself of that notion quickly. The official gestures of respect shown to her are the same shown to any First Lady, and if she wasn’t married to the president she would be just another citizen.
Ruffles and flourishes are not hers by right, but by coincidence of marriage. Yet this is the same woman who said she had never in her adult life been really proud of America before her husband ran for president, so it is no wonder she might dismiss a flag ceremony as just so much nonsense.
All this just for a flag? Has anyone said, “All this just for Michelle Obama?”
TRR: Michelle Obama:
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