Ethics

OMG! Obama is a Communist (again)!

By Ed Brayton

Here's the right wing's latest idiotic freakout, this time over an absolutely normal diplomatic courtesy. There was a celebration last weekend of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in a public park next to the White House and -- gasp! -- they flew the Chinese flag over the event. That has Chuck Baldwin, former presidential candidate of the badly misnamed Constitution Party, foaming at the mouth:

Lest anyone doubt the communist leanings of President Barack Obama, look no further than to his decision to hoist the Red Chinese flag (for the first time in history) over the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, September 20.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).