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Sheriff Rick Clark of Pickens Co South Carolina tweeted that he will refuse President Obama's direction that US flags be lowered to half-staff, in tribute to Nelson Mandela:
This from the same president who couldn't bother sending a representative from the administration to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
No matter his achievements, count me among those who don't see the necessity of lowering the flag of the United States for a foreign head of government and/or state.
Sheriff Rick Clark of Pickens Co South Carolina tweeted that he will refuse President Obama's direction that US flags be lowered to half-staff, in tribute to Nelson Mandela:
Clark's stated reason? Mandela's not an Amurrikin, he-yuck he-yuck.
Stay classy, SC...
President Obama doesn't have control over local jurisdictions' flag poles. :/
Last edited by Ibginnie; 12-06-2013 at 05:55 PM..
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