Obama and the Flag

I never would have noticed, let alone cared, if Barack Obama had simply stopped wearing an American flag lapel pin. I’d never noticed that he was wearing one in the first place. But Obama chose to frame his decision to stop wearing the flag pin as some kind of political statement. So I think it is natural for people to wonder what, exactly, is the content of the political statement; to what group of voters is it intended to appeal; and what does it tell us about Obama as a candidate?
While I couldn’t possibly care less whether a candidate wears a flag pin or not, there doesn’t seem to be any plausible set of answers to these questions that casts much credit on Obama.
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