Everyone who follows politics knows that when Barack Obama took off his lapel flag pin he was taking a dig at Republicans and the Bush Administration for hastily slapping them on their suits after September 11th and Katrina and yet leaving the American people hanging out to dry. No serious funding for the rebuilding of New Orleans and no funding for the health care of first responders at Ground Zero yet it's patriotic to invade Iraq and wear the pin. What hypocrisy.
I'm disgusted that this is even an issue and even more so that it's pushed by my fellow Democrats. This isn't about flag pins and patriotism this is about class. Inner city class, country rural class, working class, the elite class and I could go on and on.
I'm a transplanted New Yorker in Virginia, a Yankee. I have met and am friends with some of the kindest most generous southern people you could imagine. Yet if someone from my old New York associations came down to visit they may view my new friends with the old stereotype of "redneck". My new friends who laugh and say they are proud to be rednecks but I find class prejudice offensive.
Yet we have a historical moment with woman and a black man running for President from our party and it's an all out gender, class, and race civil war within our own Democratic Party. As Hillary Clinton said, "Shame on you". Shame on all of us.
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