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A look into the possible future.

Posted By Maj Pain

Team “O” completes their DNC and wraps things up…….but one thing they didn’t properly take care of apparently are a few thousand American flags from the convention.

I guess it’s easy to get wrapped up in the interviews with Oprah Winfrey and the like but hold the campaign crapper! Even if you haven’t stood one day in uniform, have a relative that has or ever care to, for the love of God, respect the flag. How hard would have been to give one of those pesky interns the job of properly managing the unused American flags from you convention? I won’t even address why they weren’t used but that could be another story all together. Here is an idea, you could have shipped them to troops in Iraq for free to show your support and been a hero. But then again Heroes are not voted to become heroes.

Fron the Denver Post. This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story.

“What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate the total number to be around 12,000 small flags and one full size 3×5 flag.”

I’m not sure what the DNC was supposed to do with unused hand-flags, frankly. But the Republicans are obviously questioning someone’s patriotism here.

Seee the full story here: http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/