Thread: Bush Brandished Mexican Flag

Bush Brandished Mexican Flag; Novak Says It May Signal 'Loyalty To A Foreign Power'...

In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets all across the nation to protest right-wing immigration proposals. As Media Matters has documented, the fact that some demonstrators carry the Mexican flag has elicited the ire of conservative pundits. For example, Robert Novak has said:

I am no hard-liner on immigration who wants to expel 11 million illegal immigrants, but flags are a symbol of national identity. The student brandishing the Mexican flag signals divided loyalty or perhaps loyalty to a foreign power.

But President Bush himself has publicly brandished the Mexican flag. ThinkProgress has obtained a copy of a five-minute ad that the 2004 Bush campaign distributed to Hispanic supporters. In the ad, Bush can be seen waving a Mexican flag while embracing a young girl. (Watch the full ad HERE.)

What Novak and others fail to understand is that carrying the flag is not a sign of divided loyalty but a demonstration of an American value — understanding and appreciating immigrant culture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/0 ... 18493.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/bus ... ican-flag/

I don't believe this!!!

I never thought I would see the day that a sitting President of the United States of America would wave the flag of a foreign nation!! Especially one that is attempting to colonize our nation!

Waving a nation's flag is not, "understanding immigrant culture," it's how one shows loyalty to one's nation. What do you think a flag is for? A simple decoration with no meaning!?

The leader of the USA has NO BUSINESS WHATSOEVER waving the flag of a foriegn power!!!!!! What in God's name is wrong with that idiot Bush!?!

This is unbelievable! It makes me SICK! What is wrong with this president? He has to GO!!! IMPEACH!!!