You just know that Sarah Palin scares the crap out of the left, otherwise they wouldn’t write about crap like you will read below.
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Sarah Palin Violates the U.S. Flag Code
by Rogers Cadenhead
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 08:02 PM
The August 2009 issue of Runner’s World includes a Q&A with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about her lifelong interest in jogging. The interview reveals that she took an unreported fall while running with the Secret Service before the vice presidential debate and describes how Sen. John McCain loves being up a creek:
I used to joke around with John McCain during the campaign about coming jogging with me. And once I asked him what his favorite exercise was, and he said, ‘I go wading.’ Wading. He lives on a creek in Arizona, so he goes wading. That cracked me up.
The most newsworthy part of the story is probably the last question, where she affirms her support for Title IX, the gender equity law that requires schools to offer as many programs for female athletes as for males:
Is there anything else the world should know about you as a runner?
The only other thing I’d like to add is I’ve been very fortunate to be a recipient of all the efforts people put into Title IX all those years ago where girls got equal opportunity to participate in sports and extracurricular activities because sports growing up were my world. I’m so thankful for Title IX allowing equal access to these opportunities, and I’m a huge proponent of girls being able to realize what they’re made of by participating in sports and whatever I can do there I’m going to be doing.
The story includes eight photos of Palin in running attire, and the last one shows that Palin still has a knack for turning a harmless publicity stunt — like pardoning a turkey — into a potential black eye.
Palin’s violating the U.S. Flag Code, which you can read on the American Legion’s site, in how that U.S. flag is treated in the photo. Under the heading Respect for the Flag, the code states, “The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.”
Though adherance to the Flag Code is optional, some people take it pretty seriously, as the American Flag wall of shame demonstrates, and a lot of them are in what Palin would consider the “pro-America areas of this great nation.” You shouldn’t drape it over a chair like a cover you bought at Bed Bath and Beyond.
It’s a wonder that Palin hasn’t shot her publicity team from a helicopter.
She’s not burning the flag like many on the left support the “right” to do.
I meant in a protest…not the way you are to properly dispose of one when it’s no longer fit to display.
Most people are probably like myself and have only heard that the flag should never touch the ground unless being retired properly. If Sarah is like most people, I’m sure she had no idea she was breaking a law or rule.
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P.S. I could easily give her a pass on this one.
When you fold it up where the heck are you supposed to set it-on a cushion of air?
I think that a flag should be respected but during some civil war battles the flag bearer got shot like thirteen times, so, duh…the flag was drug through the dirt.
It’s about intent to me. Bill Ayers and Yoko Ono were purposly desecrating the flag. They only liked the red part of it anyway.
Oh, and Sarah Palin is teh hot. May I be the first to say, Madame President?
it’s supposed to be a ‘casual” patriotic photo shot. It would look funny if the flag was up on an indoor pole.
the context of the photo doesn’t suggest flag desecration at all.