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Published on Mar 14, 2012

An American flag with President Obama's image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county's Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner "a disgrace."

Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn't enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.

"It's absolutely disrespectful," Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion said. "It's totally ridiculous. To put somebody's picture there, to me, it's a disgrace to do that."

Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Florida, snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.

"We read that to her, but she would not accept that," Bradford said. "The discussion finally got a little bit heated."

The flag, which had been flying for several months without complaint and is available online for $12.95, was later removed by Hurlbert. Bradford said Hurlbert apologized for the incident, but did not offer any promises that it wouldn't fly again.

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  • mpw48507

    mpw48507 1 day ago

    Regardless of their reason, it is wrong to have our flag changed, especially with some damn muslim

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  • pat griffith

    pat griffith 3 weeks ago

    we know it the GOP vets . and it was about Obama not the flag itself . not fooling anyone boys .

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  • pat griffith

    pat griffith 3 weeks ago

    it all about getting on TV they could have called  now go after the others I have seen some with peace signs on it for 60 years.

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  • 19werewolf19

    19werewolf19 3 weeks ago

    Kinda hard to believe that America voted a muslim for a president and also a little word of advice for the ones who voted for him next time ELECT AN AMERICAN FOR A PRESIDENT YOU STUPID IDIOTS!!!

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  • Andrew Faletti

    Andrew Faletti 1 month ago

    The American cult of personality

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  • ZedChiffre

    ZedChiffre 1 month ago

    Why do every house has its own flag ? USA must be the only country where they show it like that.

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  • Teresa Rozich

    Teresa Rozich 1 month ago

    Oddly enough, that looks alot like the movies where we predict one ultimate ruler and he puts his face on everything. :( He needs to learn respect for the traditions of this nation.

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  • MrKareemRuiz

    MrKareemRuiz 1 month ago

    HAHA Obama won!!

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  • DynastyPercussion

    DynastyPercussion 1 month ago

    fucking teenagers. what are they good for but living off the sacrifices and benefits of Veterans who died for our country so they could complain about having too much freedom?

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  • Aetherblimp

    Aetherblimp 1 month ago

    fucking veterans. what are they good for but soaking up government benefits into eternity?

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