I was watching Hannity & Colmes last night and a really heated debate got going on when it was brought up that Barack Obama isn’t wearing his American flag pin anymore.  From CNN’s ticker:

“I haven’t worn that pin in probably a very long time. I wore it right after 9/11. But after a while, you start noticing people wearing the lapel pin but not acting very patriotic,” he [Obama] said. “My attitude is that I’m less concerned with what you’re wearing on you lapel than what’s in your heart. You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those ones who serve.”

Point taken, or at least understood.  And of course wearing a pin doesn’t make you a patriot or define your patriotism.  But - come on - in the middle of a Presidential campaign, is this even a good idea?

Why would you go out of your way to point something like this out, unless asked about it?  Even then, why not just wear the pin for a while, just so people don’t ask questions.  You might reply that it’s because Obama sticks with his own beliefs.  Okay.  Sure, it sounds like Obama is being principled - but to what?  His “anti-superfluous pin” rule?  Wow, he’s so principled!

It’s much ado about nothing, and our attention spans are so short that we’ll forget about this by Friday - some of you reading this have already skipped on to something else.  But why can a candidate be so divisive about wearing his pin, and then not pledge to have troops out of Iraq by 2013?

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