Obama Lowers Flags to Half Mast After Aurora Shootings – Had to Be Pressured to Lower Flags After Ft. Hood Shooting

Priorities.
Within hours Barack Obama ordered flags to be flown at half mast yesterday following the horrible theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado. But when 14 military men and women were murdered by a fundamentalist Islamist at Fort Hood Obama had to be pressured to lower flags.
Maggies Notebook reported, via Free Republic:

When 14 persons (one unborn), most of them military personnel on the base at Ft. Hood, Texas, were murdered by Islamic terrorist and U.S. Military Colonel Nidal Hasan, America’s flags were not lowered to half mast until the next day. Today, by at least 2:30 pm EDT, the order came down from on high to lower our flags in a sign of mourning for the victims of today’s shootings inside an Aurora Colorado movie theatre showing the much awaited Batman: The Dark Knight Rises…

…In the case of Ft. Hood, Obama had to be bullied into the national gesture of mourning by Texas patriot, Anita Ross:

FYI… the White House/staff had no intention of lowering the flags…in fact, early Friday AM after the “closet Muslim terrorist” had finished his “atrocity against Army” warriors, the flags were raised to “full staff.”

Anita burned up the phone lines in D.C. and in Texas…Congressmen/women…Governor Perry’s office…White House…all heard from her as she “assaulted the arrogance” of the clueless bureaucrats who mostly despise our military…demanding that honor be shown by lowering the flags.

She was stonewalled, ignored, shunned…everywhere but in Texas.

When it became obvious that the Liar-in-Chief and his team were completely ignorant, insensitive and insipid toward the “atrocity” (not “tragedy”) at Ft. Hood…Read the rest of the story at Pam Geller’s

It’s just another bizarre chapter to a totally bizarre and predictably anti-American presidency.

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#1 July 21, 2012 at 8:46 am
Bunni commented:

It’s all show with this phony. He doesn’t care about the murdered people, he’ll just use this awful occurrence to further his gun control agenda.

It’s shameful he has to be convinced to Lower the Flag for our men and women in uniform who were murdered. He is the most anti-American scum out there. Lord help us.
#2 July 21, 2012 at 8:50 am
SuziBasterd commented:

It’s “half staff”, not “half mast.” Half mast only occurs on ships.
#4 July 21, 2012 at 9:03 am
Greg commented:

Maybe he or his staff learned from the Fort Hood experience and were trying to be responsive. Hopefully there will be sufficient coverage of the brutality of Dark night, vidio games ect to slow the decadence. Aurora is about life imitating art and society has not learned to manage the effects of modern entrainment media.
#5 July 21, 2012 at 9:06 am
StrangernFiction commented:

Will he be chewing gum at the memorial? We shall see.
#6 July 21, 2012 at 9:07 am
Stonedome commented:

Election year posturing…”all that just for a flag”
#7 July 21, 2012 at 9:15 am
Sasja commented:

Thank you SuziBasterd.

I guess we need to remind ourselves when it is appropriate to fly our flag at half-staff.

Well, it is an election year and this prez seems to think it will garner him some votes.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6403366_half-staff-flag-etiquette.html
#8 July 21, 2012 at 9:19 am
Larkin commented:

Islamists stick together.
#9 July 21, 2012 at 9:22 am
Amjean commented:

Isn’t Colorado a blue state? Or at least a state wobbling?
That is the answer as to “why”.
#10 July 21, 2012 at 9:24 am
Limousine Barry commented:

You what me to lower the flag in Hawaii?

If I do – then then I will have to lower the crappy flag in all of the 57 states!
#11 July 21, 2012 at 9:26 am
TryingToBeHopeful commented:

#6 naw naw naw… All that for a “DAMN” flag >:(
#13 July 21, 2012 at 9:38 am
Sibyl West commented:

Actually Anita Ross sent that story directly to me on Ramparts360. Here is the original post.
http://ramparts360.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/4726/

That was our ALL TIME biggest post for hits. God bless America!
#14 July 21, 2012 at 9:40 am
StrangernFiction commented:

Isn’t Colorado a blue state? Or at least a state wobbling?
That is the answer as to “why”.

Colorado is a swing state. So I suspect if there is a memorial Barry will refrain from chewing gum.
#15 July 21, 2012 at 9:44 am
StrangernFiction commented:

”all that just for a flag”

Just one in a long line of campaign ads that ought to run, but won’t.
#16 July 21, 2012 at 10:31 am
dfbaskwill commented:

Obama still calls that “just a work place shooting”. He’ll probably consider this the murder of 11 (the twelfth was just a member of the military!). Prick.
#18 July 21, 2012 at 10:53 am
Ragspierre commented:

Shouldn’t the flags in Chicago be kept at half-staff…

at least until they turn their weekly slaughter around?
#19 July 21, 2012 at 10:59 am
Lightwave commented:

The Second Amendment and your ability to legally purchase and be trained in the safe use of firearms is literally the only thing standing between you and dictatorship right now. Tens of millions of Americans own firearms and know how to use them. It is that and ONLY that that keeps Obamee’s jackboots from your throat and the throats of your family.

Best remember that.

Powder is dry.
#20 July 21, 2012 at 11:04 am
Militant conservative commented:

I’ll not lower my flag for

Obama or the unarmed idiots

Of a late night show. None of

Them took responsibility for

Their own protection, not

One. Wise up young America

This is the world you have

Created. Metrosexual POS.

We old farts will inherit your

Stupidity.

Darwin award for the child

Killed. Not good, but parental

Choice.