Democratic Rally Attendees Vote Down Pledge of Allegiance

In my final entry last night, I asked, "Are conservatives more patriotic than lefties?"

As I noted, it's almost self-evident that conservatives are more genuinely patriotic than those on the left, and it's apparently not just the RADICAL LEFT, but regular Democratic Party activists as well.

It turns out that at a legislative district caucus in Seattle over the weekend, Democratic partisans booed down a suggestion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance:

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.

Groans and boos at the notion of pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States?

The meeting included intense jockeying for positions as delegates to the Washington state Democratic convention, so these people are true-blue (as in "blue state") Democratic Party activists and officials.

Of the 67 delegates apportioned at the caucus, 53 went for Obama and 14 for Clinton.

This was an Obama crowd. God help the United States if this man's elected in November.

See also the introduction to my recent series on far left-wing progressives, "No Enemies on the Left? Progressives for Barack Obama."

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin