What's next? Obama on Mt. Rushmore?

Florida Democrats got a little carried away in their support of President Obama.

Lake County Democrats flew the stars and stripes over their party headquarters. And right below it, they flew another US flag - but without the stars. Instead of a blue field with 50 stars, the Democrats substituted a picture of Barack Obama.

Vets went ballistic. Fox News:

An American flag with President Obama's image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county's Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner "a disgrace."

Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn't enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.

"It's absolutely disrespectful," Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. "It's totally ridiculous. To put somebody's picture there, to me, it's a disgrace to do that."

Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.

"We read that to her, but she would not accept that," Bradford said. "The discussion finally got a little bit heated."

The flag, which had been flying for several months without complaint and is available online for $12.95, was later removed by Hurlbert.

Bradford said Hurlbert apologized for the incident, but did not offer any promises that it wouldn't fly again.

"What really upsets me is that the flag had apparently been flying for months and no one had done anything about it," Bradford said. "I've got no hard feelings toward [Hurlbert], but people will be driving by there to make sure it doesn't go up again."

The reason nobody complained is that no one noticed it. I can't imagine people pay much attention to what flag is flying outside of a political party's headquarters. Once noticed, it stirred controversey as it should.

Note the oblivious reaction of Democrat - she still doesn't get why it's an insult to those who have fought under that flag or those who respect what it stands for.






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