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American flag with President Obama's image sparks outrage at Florida Democrats
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.
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