I really don’t understand why these people hate our country.

Some button on my keyboard makes words transpose, and I have no idea which one or how I did that….

That said, not a smart move. Perhaps they were relying on the media covering it up? But with the average voter seeing it on the news, and it will be played over and over and over by Beck, O’Reilly and Hannity, this is going to hurt the NY Dems tremendously.

So, yeah. I’m disgusted that people who were elected to office, have no respect for the country that gave them every opportunity they have. When did respect for a flag and a country that gave these people EVERYTHING become a partisan issue? Why is it so fashionable to hate where we come from? What good can possibly come of being self-hating? It doesn’t work socially, why would anyone thing this is an acceptable viewpoint on a grander scale, politically?

I checked the sites for ABC Local news, NBC, CBS, NY 1, the Daily News, and the NY Post, I searched only ” Pledge of Allegiance” to be general enough to find any mention of this. There was none. What a shock – NOT.

It makes me sick to see the erosion over the years of the American Spirit and ideals. In the past, I’ve stopped talking to people who, I found out, never bothered to vote in elections. I lost respect for them at that point, so I had nothing else to say to them. But I realized that’s where it begins. We become complacent, we stop caring, and then the people who end up in office, are representative of that. This is now just an extension, a continuance of that same erosion. Perhaps we can’t see it on a day to day basis, but if people measured the losses of our freedoms and rights as carefully as they measure the millimeters of that might or might NOT glaciers melting, we’d all be talking about this more than who Jack-o left his non-fortune to.

I’d like to say I am surprised…but im not. I have not felt “represented” in my own state for quite some time.

Some samples from the comments:

Republicans are faux patriots. They owe their allegiance to the mighty dollar (which isn’t so mighty these days) and they worship at the feet of their gods (aka Wall Street and multinational corporations).

We all know that the GOP stands for hypocrisy. I love the way the Republicans carry on about patriotism and the adornment of such but they have managed to bloody our flag at home and abroad by this disreputable war of choice in Iraq. A pox on them all!

This ‘error’ may have been intentional on
the part of Republicans.

The two-chamber human brain is very
sensitive to visual symbols.

Volunteers in psych labs who were not told
the nature of the experiment, were first shown
the Nazi version of the swastika which is turned
in the opposite direction of ancient swastikas.

The volunteers experienced physical weakness
and changes in galvanic skin response.

The same subjects were then shown pictures
of swastikas taken from ancient tombs in the
Middle East. Those swastikas are turned in the opposite direction from the Nazi swastikas.

The subjects reported that they felt invigorated
when viewing the ancient swastikas.

We hang the flag with the union to the flag’s
right because that visual image gives us a
burst of positive emotion.

The purpose of the Republican’s displaying
the flag with the union to the flag’s left would
be to weaken the will of the observer in order to
drive the Republican message deeper.

2…and to the Republic for which it stands NOT Elite Liberal Oligarchy–they don’t like normal salt of the earth types voting…especially if they are Rednecks or Christians

3…Under God …they don’t believe in any deity except maby Mr. Obama

4..Liberty and justice for all…they want to apply different standards of justice to diffrent people and take away our Liberty to controll our own property, buy the car we like, discuss religion, protest etc.

“I pledge allegiance to The Light that is Barack Hussein Obama. And to the Quran behind which he stands, one world, under Shari’a, with taxes and servitude for all.”

Over my dead body.