ACK posted a link to a photo gallery of Sarah Palin posing for Runner's World magazine in her running clothes. Of course it's a cheap stunt to distract everyone from the fact that she's clueless by reminding everyone that she's attractive (if you're into that sort of thing, of course). But that's not what struck me as odd about the pictures.
Is the American flag supposed to be draped over a chair or bunched up like that? According to the U.S. flag code:
The flag should not be used as "wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery", or for covering a speaker's desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins). Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
The flag should never be drawn back or bunched up in any way.
Now, for those of you saying this is stupid, it's a nonissue, it's much ado about nothing--of course. As was Obama's lack of a flag lapel pin, an issue that the Republicans were so fixated on for so long. Do the same standards apply to Palin? I'll betcha not!
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not much better than this: http://bit.ly/TpW4K
Cripes, is she angling to be a pin-up or a serious politician?
OhmyGod! Does that mean that that Tennessee Bicentennial poster I have of a flag draped over a rocking chair - you know, the one Lamar Alexander signed while he was governor - is (gasp!) against the U.S. Flag Code?
Yes, SoBe. Both.
Oh, God. When I saw that pic I thought it was someone posing as her, or photoshopped, or a joke...I had no idea it was real. Wow. Pretty impressive that she can even suck the awesome out of Independence Day, criminy.
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