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- Muzikal203, on 09/06/2008, -38/+251Those people are PATHETIC.
- DJShay, on 09/06/2008, -34/+215They will lie, cheat, steal, sell out their own families for a political victory. They make me sick.
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -31/+207If the Republicans cared as much about America as they do about the flag, the last 8 years never would have happened.
- vamonticello, on 09/06/2008, -32/+175Charges should be filed and McCain should be questioned about distributing stolen property.
The claim of the thief that the flags were next to a dumpster are FALSE.........
The Mccain supporter that stole the flags should be arrested!.......McCain had the nerve to distribute stolen property to BOY SCOUTS
HOW SHAMEFUL - cweathers, on 09/06/2008, -36/+171Such a shame. John McCain may have been a hero once, but he has since joined the Dark Side.
- DemRising, on 09/07/2008, -26/+115This quote from the HuffPo story tells you all you need to know:
"Emails to three McCain spokespersons inquiring where the flags were found and how the McCain campaign obtained them were not returned."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-aw ... - alapoet, on 09/07/2008, -23/+91Typical Rovian Republican ***** move.
Cool that the Obama camp called them on it. I don't think anyone's going to fall for this sort of foolishness this time. Not this year. - briefer, on 09/07/2008, -22/+88These people are responsible for the deaths of 4000 american kids sent to find nonexistent WMD. I don't think I'll be taking flag etiquette lessons from these folks. What I'm more concerned with is the 4000 flag covered coffins that didn't need to be there.
- shpilk, on 09/07/2008, -25/+84These are the same hypocrites that smeared Vice Admiral Stockdale, when he got in the way of their political ambitions in 1992.
These people, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and others likes them are totally without honor. More than one Republican I know has decided they have had enough of these lying, cheating weasels and have walked away from the Republican Party.
Some have come out in support of Obama, others Barr or Paul. But many are just sick and tired of the Rovian politics. They can also see right clear through McCain's cynical pick of Palin as the dog whistle to most extreme, nasty and ultimately hypocritical wing of a dying political Party, and they want nothing to do with it.
This story reveals that McCain's campaign really is the very lowest of the low. - BlueFranco, on 09/07/2008, -29/+83McPalin=Bush/Cheney=CRIMINALS=LIARS=PUTANGS
- tcbishop12, on 09/07/2008, -24/+76These McCain operatives are pathetic. Where are the real patriots? People who would not stoop to denigration of the American flag for deceitful political purposes such as this, that's for sure.
- Muzikal203, on 09/06/2008, -22/+65FAUX news can never be considered accurate when it comes to politics.
- blossomstar, on 09/07/2008, -21/+64This is the all time lowest of low that I've ever seen. These McCain people are obviously rabidly desperate at this point.
- Echota, on 01/05/2009, -31/+72McCain people are scum of America!
Obama/Biden 08! - spyd3rweb, on 09/07/2008, -4/+44The proper way to dispose of a flag is to burn it.
- The US Flag Code. - nycjap, on 09/07/2008, -9/+48"All of the flags at Invesco were picked up and put in bags and into storage, along with the unused flags and campaign signs. The flags were going to be donated, and the signs were going to be sent out to be used elsewhere"
RTFA. - Ant08Kat, on 09/06/2008, -19/+56Fox news accurate, since when? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze!
It's about time they stop carrying water for RNC/Bush/McCain if they ever intend to have some legitimacy in American media. - nobush3rd, on 09/07/2008, -25/+62http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214283.php
According to a article just out from Huffington Post, the story about flags from the Democratic National Convention being thrown away is simply false. The story was jumped on and apparently authored by the McCain campaign. But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News' Carl Cameron.
Longtime readers of TPM will remember that back in October 2004 this site caught Cameron publishing a series of fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry on the front page of the Fox News website.
After I placed a series of calls to Fox News inquiring about the Kerry story, the story was eventually pulled, and Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story. Fox spokesman Paul Schur told TPM: "Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."
Why anybody would believe anything this joker says is difficult to fathom. But he's good enough for McCain. - hmunkey, on 09/07/2008, -11/+47He wasn't even a hero. He crashed 5 ***** times. His pilot wasn't even in the correct position when they were captured. That is called being careless.
If I was in the military and I acted stupid, would that make me a hero? The real heroes are the troops who get the job done the correct way. - bmaggiemay, on 09/07/2008, -13/+48Hey.......Let's talk about how John McCain (who gets 100% disability tax free) has voted down almost every single enhancements for our VETERANS. He thinks that if he improves their lives they won't want to stay in the service...leave them without proper medical care, living on the streets, traveling hundreds of miles for care, no chance to educated themselves when coming home....good thing you weren't treated like that eh, John. These heroes will always be ready to serve with honor. A notion that never ever dawned on these Republicans.
They die on foreign soil so that we may be free and we treat them literally like second class citizens. John McCain should be ashamed. But he isn't. - pdxuser, on 09/07/2008, -10/+45"JOHN MCCAIN: THIEF"
- kmom5, on 09/07/2008, -11/+43Brought to you courtesy of the same network that laughingly declared Obama a muslim.
Yeah, that just reeks of accuracy. - DJShay, on 09/06/2008, -17/+49Seems to me the guy shilling the story for Fox, Carl Cameron, has made up crap before and had to retract it. Fox is for rubes.
- Jauladeoro, on 09/07/2008, -19/+50So, when is the McCain campaign going to pay Obama back for the flags they stole?
- grlykool, on 09/07/2008, -25/+56And McCain claims he's a Christian!
- thegrantman, on 09/07/2008, -11/+41What were members of the Republican party doing near the trash?
- JekJob, on 09/07/2008, -29/+57"Republican" has become a synonym for a lying, cheating, asinine, sophomoric, disrespectful, selfish, detestable crook.
- kmom5, on 09/07/2008, -8/+36Did you even check out your own link? It even says McCain supporters said..
I have heard/read two conflicting stories about the 'discovery'
of these flags. One says McCain supporters found them, one that a vendor
found them and gave them to the McCain camp. Neither make sense to any reasonable, objective person. - siszam, on 09/07/2008, -21/+48It's disgusting that Republicans get emotional over a piece of fabric made in China but they don't mind killing our troops or letting millions of Americans live without health care.
- FreddieD, on 09/07/2008, -5/+30Searching for their reputations, apparently.
- voxlisa999, on 09/07/2008, -19/+44Someone need to call out McCain for this dirty trick that insults the American people and insults the American Flag. All Americans should be outraged and offended to the core that McCain would stoop to such dirty tricks as using the American flag- the flag that people have died for, shed blood, for given their lives for that flag. That McCain would use it this way is despicable and calls into question his judgment and character trying to trick the American people.
- DJShay, on 09/06/2008, -7/+32Well said indeed.
- abaad, on 09/07/2008, -6/+27What's even more pathetic is that people support him. Why can't people see that McCain has no problem taking America down the wrong path? More pathetic still is the use of the name Maverick, when did decency become unpopular?
- gsadamb, on 09/07/2008, -19/+39When normal people take things that don't belong to them, they get arrested.
- johnnr2, on 09/07/2008, -13/+32Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago? Is the country better off now than it was 8 years ago?
- FreddieD, on 09/07/2008, -7/+26McCain hired the same guy who smeared him horribly in 2000. He basically said "Wow you play dirty. I could use a guy like you on my team!"
Would you expect nothing less out of those guys? If you can't find any legit dirt about your opponent, just go fabricate something! - cavitator, on 09/07/2008, -9/+27They will also sell out their own country. And the concept of honor. And decency.
- rharrie, on 09/06/2008, -15/+32You are repeating a lie, mogebier. Get your story straight.
- nihilville, on 09/07/2008, -2/+19Ha, yeah...
If your idea of adding to this site is summed up in that last comment, then thanks for leaving.
Now please try to be quiet, sweetie. The adults are talking. - facelesscoward, on 09/07/2008, -3/+18This story has seen a number of updates. It looks like this was all a big misunderstanding between the Democrats, Invesco, and the Republicans. Lame. Buried.
Although McCain's decision to pitch the Democrats as being on the side of the enemies reeks of Rovian campaigning probably even worse than anything I ever saw out of Bush and Dick. I guess running on issues is detrimental to his chances. - kmom5, on 09/07/2008, -2/+17Nice try.
These are the flags they are referring to:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/rep ... - charm803, on 09/07/2008, -2/+16You don't count the thousand innocent Iraqis, I see.
Can you call the families of 4,000 troops and tell them that they don't mean nothing? Pshft! It's ONLY 4,000 troops! Who cares!
/s - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -6/+20McCain - still no lapel pin.
- niczar, on 09/07/2008, -3/+17What do you propose they do with disposable items that feature a flag graphics?
Besides you americans and your flag worshipping are pathetic, it's something unseen in Europe since the early 1940s. You live in a fascist state and you don't realize it. - gadgetlust, on 09/07/2008, -3/+17And if the Republicans had the slightest understanding of the Judeo-Christian values they purport to represent, they would refrain from the idolatry of worshipping that Goddamn flag.
Just sayin'. - JohnnyKdiggs, on 09/07/2008, -4/+17Democrat or Republican, you gotta admit that's a pretty clever political stunt.
If only the Republicans were as good at running the country as they are at running campaigns... - nihilville, on 09/07/2008, -10/+22So, you are of the opinion that repeating a lie often enough makes it true?
Typical Republican. - Azio, on 09/07/2008, -5/+17They shouldn't have made these "flags" (pieces of paper stapled to wood sticks) in the first place, look at all the trash they generate.
Yes, trash. What is anyone going to do with a paper flag when they're done with it, besides throw it out? It's not the end of the world. You Yank flag-worshippers make me sick. Find something worthwhile to expend all your energy on. - folkish, on 09/07/2008, -0/+12I can't believe a story like this is actually unfolding... Canada is getting ready for an election next month, and I think I would emigrate if something like this happened between the Liberals and Conservatives up here, it's astounding.
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