It has taken Obama almost a full week after jihadi gunman Mohammed Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga to order that flags be lowered to half-staff in their honor.
It is unconscionable that Obama refused to lower the flags and only did so after great pressure from lawmakers and others.
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what an EVIL, HEARTLESS, MURDERING, LYING, WORTHLESS, MOOSLIM F–KTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMPEACH. NOW.
It’s easy to understand why people might feel uneasy about the decision to not lower the flag to half-staff initially. But actually, the flag isn’t lowered as often as you might imagine.
Senate guidance on the flag lists out that the flag should be lowered to honor government leaders and dignitaries who p$#%&!@*, but it doesn’t actually mention anything to do with moments of violence. However, it does give the president discretion.
But that discretion is not used very frequently. In the last four years, the flag has only been lowered six times following violent events in the U.S.
Those include: the Navy Yard shooting; the Sandy Hook elementary shooting; the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting; the Boston bombing; the Oak Creek Temple shooting in Wisconsin; and the Tucson shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Each of these tragedies had at least 10 casualties.
It’s also worth noting that in 2009, the president ordered the flag lowered following the Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people, but in 2014, he did not lower the flags for the Fort Hood shooting where a gunman killed three people.
Also, the president did not lower the flags just weeks ago when a gunman killed nine churchgoers in their house of worship in Charleston, South Carolina.
That is just a little context of when we have dipped the flag for violence
i would have inpeach hi m he dont have no respect for our arm force i just love our arm force they are great and super
If they were muslim he would have. Why isnt sharpeton or jackson outraged by this dastardly act?
Put him on trial
Yet, Congress issues an order to lower all flags to half staff but the WH didn’t comply. Care to explain that decision Alex Ryan Johnson?
They did today. 7-21
Insulting and disrespectful
disgusting