There is one possibility that explains the reappearance of the flag pin as something other than pandering. Perhaps, like his wife Michelle, Obama is for the first time in his adult life, proud of his country. In making him the Democratic nominee, the U.S. has earned his patriotism at last.
Greenwald shouldn’t be so quick to accuse Obama of an inflated sense of himself; it’s probably nothing more than political opportunism at work.
