Reminds me of the flopped photo of the Obamas that purportedly showed them pledging with the wrong hand that circulated in 2008. And no matter how many times you’d tell the sender that this kind of crap was faked and bogus, they didn’t care. They’d just say, “well, close enough to the truth.”

It taught me that the Obama haters didn’t care about facts.

I’m voting for America Ferrera.  She’s clearly the most patriotic person in the United States.

In Mitts case its a cybernetic control mechanism. with and ipod attached. He just presses play, and the national anthem comes out of his voice box.

I suppose that technically Romney could be correct. It is probably true that Russians don’t place their hands over their hearts when the American National Anthem is played. Same goes for those other commies and former commies.

For two decades, I did not place my hand over my heart, I saluted as every soldier does, with my right hand to the brim of my hat or my right eyebrow while in uniform.

I think the bigger lie is that we didn’t do it before FDR asked us to. BTW, wasn’t FDR a Democrat?

Instead of your first paragraph, give us a list of all the countries, other than the USA, who have a national anthem and put their hands over their heart when they sing it.  That is what is important. The Fact that Mitt talks about it bothers only those that hate this country in the mistaken belief that there was, is or may be a better type some day….there hasn’t been, isn’t, and by the look of what’s happening on the planet, there won’t be.  Rep. West is correct, if you cannot appreciate what America truly is then, please, go where it is better in your personal estimation and leave the rest of us alone….but, then, many of you media and political types wouldn’t be allowed or able to make the money you do here..isn’t that it?

Romney is 100% correct.  Americans are indeed the only people who put their hands over our hearts during our national anthem. 

The people of no other nation put their hands over our hearts during our national anthem.

It’s “Only Americans should put their hand over their heart when the American anthem is played”, not “Only Americans put their hand over their heart when their anthem is played.”  Romney needs to read his “Patriotic Trivia” desk calendar more closely next time.

You beat me to it by seconds!

By the way, does anybody know what that small, dark square is that Romney has on his flag pin? The one on his lapel when he wears a suit. Isn’t that desecrating the flag somehow?
What is that thing???

I am sure his statement goes over well with people who wrap themselves in the flag while carrying the bible. Isn’t that what matters?

1- Since we are not supposed to care about each other, why care about country and flag? The right wing is forever saying collectivism is a bad idea but you can’t get more collective than saying ‘we’ are better than ‘them’. If ‘we’ are not supposed to help each other out, what is the point of the ‘we’?

2- Do people actually believe America is better than every other place on Earth? For whom? Why?

3- How is it possible that Americans think other people don’t ‘love’ their countries?

 I looked it up. It seems that when not in uniform, the proper salute to the flag was to hold one’s right arm up, palm UP, with all fingers pointing at the flag and only do so when saying MY FLAG. Then, Hitler came along with his palm down salute, and we decided that it was not cool for our salute to look so much like Hitler’s salute. We also changed the Pledge of Allegiance from MY FLAG to “the Flag of the United States of America.” 

As for your comment about “those who hate this country,” you can go to hell and take your hatred with you.

You made me look.  I can find two different ones.  One has the GOP elephant and the other looks like a star for something or other I should probably know.

http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/files/2012/02/Romney-pointing-Florida.jpg 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Mitt_Romney_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg 

Yes, as I’ve stated in other posts I’m a first-generation American.  Growing up in Buffalo Dad had us stand with our arms at our sides each time a National Anthem was played on the radio – no matter what country it was from.  To show respect.

This was in the days when we had Old Testament readings, Pledge of Allegiance and a patriotic song every morning to start the school day.  Quite frankly I never saw people esp children cover their hearts until I returned to teaching in 1997 after a 20-year absence.

Anyone who watches the Olympics knows that Americans are not the only one’s who put their hands over their hearts during their national anthem.

P.S.
Go back to Fox Nation where you can lie your ass off without being challenged on it.

That’s a good history lesson. If you put classroom photos of German and American students saluting the flag side by side you’d be hard put to identify the location without a flag being in the picture.

It goes back to the idea that the United States is part of some inexplicable divine plan

A salute to you sir!

Are you serious? I mean, you can’t really be that much of a knuckle dragging troglodyte, could you?

When ubers can’t decently deal with honest discourse, they use their personal hatred to attack….I would suggest you read your last sentence and feel the oozing…of hate! 

Rather a troglodyte than an uber, insane hatemonger like you!!

Perhaps today might not be the day that your atheism comes forth – oh yes, only atheists if republican bashing is necessary.  

The Pres – somehow insinuating that Jesus wants you to pay more taxes doesn’t even rate a teeny, tiny story.  Nothing!  I’m shocked! lol

So, how do you really feel about Jesus saying “PAY MORE TAXES”????

 ”The Pres – somehow insinuating that Jesus wants you to pay more taxes
doesn’t even rate a teeny, tiny story.  Nothing!  I’m shocked! lol”

I don’t get your comment. There was an article yesterday covering the prayer breakfast on which I commented twice.

My husband is British.  I asked him if they put their hand over their heart in England:  He said “Don’t be ridiculous.  Of course not.”  What about other countries??????

You lefties just don’t get it!  Conservative Republicans are the only people on earth who truly LOVE their country!  The other 99% of people who are living, or who have ever lived, are hopeless empty shells who drift the earths crust for too many years before they’re consigned to the hellfires.  

Still, I’d rather have herpes than an episode of Republicanism.

Trog, learn how to use über before you try to use it again.

The claim is neither weird nor false – he is absolutely correct.

Tommy is digging deep – did Team Obama call and tell you to jump or something?

This article, and the time spent compiling it, is ludicrous. TC – you are flat out wrong on this one, and you should issue a correction.

 Thanks! The star with a circle in it got my curiosity, so I did some (Google) research. It is the Eastern Star (AKA Venus) and it has symbolic significance in both Mormon and Masonic traditions. http://www.ldsendowment.org/masonry.html

Whether elephants or stars (with specific religious meanings) I still say it is wrong to place them ON the American flag, whether as a lapel pin or as a poster or as a flag on a pole.

It’s weird and 100% false. Even a 10-year-old knows that.

Women the hand over heart gesture in Panama, men do a similar thing but only with the side of the hand like a military salute but over the heart.

How do i know? We used to do it every week at my school. I’m sure there are many other nations that do the same.

Any more questions?

Actually, it isn’t the eastern star. My grandmothers were both members so I know what that looks like.  Here is the eastern star symbol on a flag pin:
http://www.annettewintters.com/pictures/new%20oes%20flag%20pin%20001.jpg 

The one that Romney has looks more like an old time sheriff’s badge with an interstate symbol in the middle.  I have now looked a little but can’t find a badge like that (sheriff, ranger, interstate police, highway patrol), it may not even be a badge.  Maybe if I can figure out where the picture was taken…

Putting something on a representation of the flag doesn’t get me going unless it is something like a stormfront symbol…remember that a lapel pin isn’t the actual flag, though the way Obama caught it for not wearing one, you would think the GOP thought it was. 

Ok, after painstaking research, it is….

a Secret Service badge.  

http://www.vote29.com/newmyblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Secret-Service-Badge.jpg

What do you think uber means?

Stop embarrassing yourself Tina. You are dead wrong here.

     Mitt and his crowd are really starting to show their smug “elitist” colors. They are they pissed
their stupid ivy league frat boy intimidation, peer pressure, inevitability tactic isn’t working on the dumb T-baggers and evangelicals’(snake handlers). Who are they to stand in the way of their idiot replay of the 2008 race which they screwed up so damn badly that they lost the senate and the house with decrepit John McCain? Now they are running the same campaign as if only they did it enough times they’d eventually win.
      Mitt having to pretend even more deeply that he is a ‘REAL’ conservative is painful as well as unconvincing. The GOP is now is the total Bush crime family mafia we libs told them about. I thank them for being t-bags and not heeding our warning. The 1% could care less if Romney can win, they do NOT want their way of life changed, they will back anybody they think can get the job done. 1% is a lot more than even a double wide-trailer can hold. Since ” Citizen’s United” the GnOP simply doesn’t need a fake “grass roots” front anymore. They can spend as much as want with no legal blow-backs at all. (ask Newt)  

 Your post was filled with republican LOVE.

May I echo an old line from Ann Richards, substituting “Mitt” for “George,”  

Poor Mitt, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth!

Have you learned about “hyperlinks”? Try Control+F, search “array,” and click.

Are you serious?  Every country has its own way to show respect for their Anthems.  Some salute the flag, others stand in attention.  There is nothing to brag about putting hand over your heart.  

What childish man Romney is.  He’s probably trying to get some mileage off the time Senator Obama didn’t put his hand over his heart for the anthem (although he was singing it)

This seems like a middle school level of strategy. 

Romney looks like a President until he opens his mouth.

Sad when an article was just published questioning the relative intelligence of our NEW GOP party, scientifically speaking, and here is their golden front runner speaking to them right in front of the whole world as if to say:: YOU GUYS WON’T QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF WHAT I SAY. IT’S BEEN PROVEN THAT YOU ARESTUPID. SO RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW LISTEN TO ME LIKE APT LITTLE CHILDREN. NON-READING NON-TRAVELING XENOPHBIC IGNORANT KIDS.. AND I’LL REPEAT THIS LITTE DITTY BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN COUNT ON YOUR SUPPORT!! AFTER ALL YOU REALLY JUST WANT THE MUSLIM OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT ANYTHING I DO OR SAY!! NOW ELECT ME I’VE BEEN UNEMPLYED FOR OVER 2 YEARS!!! LOL

Kind of a scary statement when you step back, look at the long list of presidents and try to draw a good circle around the president who just looks like a president.

AND YET ROMNEY IS THE CURRENT KING OF THE NEW GOP!!!!! Think about that… Kinda scary!

Especially when saying America is the only country to do so, when in fact, we aren’t.

 You think that somebody that served in the Mormon Missionary Program to France would know the French do the same thing we do. Evidently he never cared about what others were doing around him.

But yes, were the only country that places our hands over our hearts during the American anthem.

 First, let’s admit that the whole thing is trivial, but I say it can’t be a Secret Service badge ‘cuz Romney didn’t get Secret Service protection until very recently, and he certainly has no reason to wear that badge under any circumstances.
I stick with a very stylized Eastern Star because I first came across a basic star (✰) with a basic circle inside it identified as the Eastern Star. Add that Romney’s pin includes what looks like lots of other stars (or diamonds?) spread around the star part, and you have a fancy piece of jewelry.
I think it has Mormon significance, even if not Masonic.

OK, but…

http://www.mountain-skies.org/images/ussspin59.JPG 

Of course it’s trivial, but it *is* a nice side trip.

 OK. Gotta go with the Secret Service thing, I guess.
I just have a hard time making the connection of Romney wearing it if that is what it is.

Now, about those shamrocks on his tie. :-)

I grew up in the 1940s, we only put our hand on our heart for the Pledge of Allegiance (which had no”under God” phrase in it then) which we said every morning at school.  We said it right after the Lords Prayer, which is how we knew who was Catholic because they had extra lines and kept going at the end.  There was no hand on the heart for the Star Spangled Banner (which Romney probably calls Oh Say Can You See) like he calls America The Beautiful “Oh Beautiful For Spacious Skies”). This is some new made up right wing requirement.

Other people put their hands over their ears when the US anthem is played or, worse, sung.
Neither text nor tune were good choices. A failed rocket attack set to the tune of a drinking song that even sober people have difficulty to get right? There would have been so many far better choices. Many favor ‘America the beautiful’, although there are issues with that too (not with the song itself but with it being the national anthem). I tend towards ‘The Battle Cry of Freedom’ with modified text (since there are very different lyrics for the Union and Confederate original versions). That would be both easy to sing in tune and sound genuinely American. It also has the advantage that the performance can be tuned to the occasion (lighthearted or solemn).
But I guess, if put up for a vote, the winner would likely be ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ which would be even worse than the current one.

I know, and since the picture was taken in December, Paddy’s day is no excuse for it.  I actually then wondered who made the tie and how much it cost.  Hold me back before I search for that too!  
I am thinking someone who admires him gave the pin to him.  The photo was taken in Arizona.  Maybe he got it from McCain?  

We can talk all day about the gaffs of every one of the candidates and those of Obama, big friggin deal.  Americans need to look at the facts, instead of the idiotic MSM Liberal BS.  The facts are that Mitt or Newt, or Cain, or Palin, or either of my two pet minature pigs, Muhammud and Allah, can and will do a better job than the Dummy Board reader, Obama!  Just a Simple Truth that the Liberals hate, lol!

Mitt Romney – your choice for the best one liners of the election cycle

Remember the fake photo of Obama holding the telephone handset the wrong way and the other of him puffing on a cigarette? The rightwingers were so desperate to smear him they just MADE STUFF UP!

American exceptionalism baby! We are the only country where people inhale 21% oxygen in the air!

Haha…funny.

There are plenty of gaffs yet to come from this flake.

This guy is becoming an unfunny clown. Put on a red nose & oversized shoes Bozo.

Good comment. That flake Mitt would be more accurate to say that Americans were the source of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior via the Pledge of Allegiance (before the hand-over-the-heart the gesture was the Nazi salute). The Pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (see the discoveries of the historian Dr. Rex Curry). That behavior came from flakes who behave as Romney does. 

Actually, Sharin, while I am aware of at least nine nations where people place their hand over their heart during a national anthem (because I’ve been in those nations and have seen it first hand), what actually bothers me is that Romney lies through his teeth every day and there are folks in this country who either don’t realize it or care enough to know the truth.

As for Rep. West, I refuse to take lessons on patriotism from a man who copped a plea bargain and resigned his commission in the Army rather than be court martialled for abusing both his own troops and Iraqi prisoners. The man is a disgrace.

You know what, you are right.  I don’t remember doing it as a kid either, now that you mention it, and that was several decades after you.

 I guess don’t read, don’t know, unintelligent is the kind of American GOPers are.