Much ado has been made over Sen. Barack Obama’s failure to wear a flag pin on his lapel during this campaign. (We have to wonder, however, why Hillary Clinton doesn’t get the same treatment over her lack of patriotic pantsuit pinnage.) Obama apparently drew a larger target on himself by saying that he wore is patriotism in a different manner. It was noted today by Scared Monkeys, though, that the Illinois Senator showed up with just such a pin while out on the campaign trail.

Obama, the very candidate who created the flag pin wearing controversy and said he does not wear a flag pin because he lets his ideas show his patriotism is guess what? Obama now is wearing a flag pin on his lapel while campaigning in West Virginia. So now Obama has had a change of heart and wears the flag pin when he feels the need to pander to voters. So what is Obama’s real position on patriotism?

By making his previous statements about letting his ideas demonstrate his devotion to America, has Obama created a flytrap of his own making? Scared Monkeys may be correct in pointing out that, had the Senator simply brushed the question off in the first place, his decision to so adorn himself is now put into play whenever it happens.

Hopefully we can all agree that some sort of tie tack or cuff links are not the final arbiter of one’s love of country. But a seasoned pol would likely not have allowed themselves to be pinned under such a question in the first place. We’ll have to leave it to the voters to decide how well this was handled or if it was a legitimate issue in the first place.