Denver Post Photo
The Democrats put on quite a show at their national convention last week.
From styrofoam Greek temples, spectacular fireworks to thousands of American flags, the Democrats did their best to wow America with their extravaganza.
There's one little thing, though. What became of all those American flags?
It has been discovered that the Democrats who attended didn't seem to find them important enough to take home as souvenirs (I am sure some did, but apparently not many).
According to Fox News:
McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.
The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were going to be reused — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry out a “cheap political stunt.”
McCain supporters said the flags were discovered by a vendor at Denver’s Invesco Field after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. The vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and near garbage bins, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.
Boy Scouts were sorting through 84 bags of flags in Colorado on Saturday, before a McCain supporter had veterans distribute them to the audience.
Barack Obama has been whining about alleged attacks on his patriotism. While I don't blame him for the discarded and rescued flags, I do blame the Democrats for this disrespectful offense.
I have attended political campaign rallies for over 36 years. Whenever I received a flag to wave at an event (most came from Ronald Reagan rallies), I take it home with me. I have dozens of them. I even label the sticks with information on where I obtained the flag. I still have them.
Apparently, Democrats aren't sentimental as I am.
Here's an update from the Denver Post:
Update: I just spoke with the person at Invesco who found the flags. He thinks both sides are exaggerating a bit. He claims the majority of the bags with flags were near the trash and it was probably an "oversight" by the Democrats rather than a nefarious plot against the flag, but he doesn't believe anyone was coming to get them. "The flags were there for a week and a day and no one came looking for them," the person said.
Update No. 2. Here's an AP photo of the Democrat National Convention that is telling:
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