Seattle Democrats Vote Down Pledge

Via Michelle Malkin, what do you think of this story? She links to the left-wing blog Stranger:

Oh, Those 43rd District Democrats
posted by ELI SANDERS on APRIL 5 at 15:50 PM

There was some time to kill as multiple tallies of the delegates and alternates were done, and when the time-killer of taking audience questions had run its course and the idea of teling jokes had been nixed, someone suggested doing the Pledge of Allegiance to pass the time. (Are you listening, right-wing bloggers? This is going to get good.)

At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which there was only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hat) was shouted down.

Do you think it was that icky-God word that caused the Pledge to lose? Or was it the whole American flag issue? Where were the Barack supporters with their Chavez flags? Maybe Guevara flags could have carried the room.

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Che Guevara flag hangs in the office of volunteers organizing for Barack Obama in Houston, Texas.

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Did you know that the pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist with the purpose of teaching obedience to the state as a virtue?

Hugh–while Mr Bellamy might indeed have been a socialist and wrote the Pledge with the intent you describe, I would suggest he failed totally.

The key words are “obedience” vs “allegiance.” One is not synonymous with the other. So while authorial intent was one thing, the reader (or reciter, in this case) senses something totally different.

I do not propose throwing out the baby with the bathwater and neither do I support disposing of the Pledge because of its writer or its origin.

I0 believe it is one of very few good things to come out of the socialist movement even if an accident.

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