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This should come as a surprise to no one, given that this is the same Administration that has been steadily cutting the Veterans Administration budget while not supplying active duty troops with enough body armor, armored vehicles, and first aid equipment such as tourniquettes.

My probelm with Obama's comments is that there is a great deal of harm in requiring the Pladge, most of which falls on the religious. I'm sure as a lawyer Obama must have read the Jehovah's Witnesses Supreeme Court cases while in law school. I do not remember whether Barnette was the first case or the case overturning the earlier decision a mere three years later. Basically, a boy in Viriginia refused to recite the Pledge, as required by state law and got expelled from school and his parents sent to jail for contributing to the truancy of their son. The Supreme Court upheld the Virigina law, mostly relying on case law from anti-Mormon cases from the mid 1800s. This was interpreted as open season on JW's. There were lynchings and one man was even castrated. Causing the Supreme Court to reverse itself three years later as the apparant harm could no longer be ignored.

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