How low can a campaign go? Fox news is reporting on the horrors of discarded flags after the Denver convention and plan to make quite an ordeal out of this.
http://elections.foxnews.com/...
John McCain’s presidential campaign prepared to chastise Democrats Saturday over leaving behind piles of miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver.
Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time in Colorado Springs.
So, there you go. The McCain campaign is going to exploit little boys to make a pointless point. This campaign is in the dumpster.
This is not a campaign of change. It is the tired politics of fear mongering and attempt to divide the country by suggesting they are patriotic and others are not. Remember how well that flag burning ammentment (stunt) went the last time around. I am sure Bill Frist would be proud of these tactics but I don't know who in their right mind finds this to be a good move. Here's a little flashback!
But as the Fox News host points out, these moves are nothing more than pandering to the right-wing base. Flag-burning incidents declined rapidly after 9/11 and haven’t shown any signs of rebounding. Right now, Cuba, China, and Iran are the only other countries to ban flag desecration and the issue doesn’t even show up on recent polls as an important priority for the American public.
On gay marriage, only 40 percent of the American public ranked it as an extremely or very important issue in a Feb. poll, behind eight other issues, including terrorism (89 percent), the war in Iraq (89 precent), the economy (88 percent), and health care costs (88 percent).
Looks like the "heart and soul of the American people" have different priorities, Sen. Frist.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
How shameful can you get. Juxtopose their shameful dumpster diving with the fact that under the helm of the repulicans honest, earnest pulic servents such as Joe Biden was not allowed to see the flag draped coffins of our fallen soldiers and comfort the families.
On CBS News's "Face the Nation" yesterday, Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) told Bob Schieffer that the Defense Department policy forbids him from paying his respects to fallen soldiers as their coffins return to the US through the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Though no cameras and no press would accompany him, Biden said he had to receive express permission from the Pentagon to join a grieving family that had requested his presence as they met their deceased son who died in a car bomb in Iraq.
"I'm allowed in the military base. I'm not allowed to go to the mortuary," he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Also juxtopose this divisive stunt that exploits boyscouts and does nothing to advance the national discourse with some words from Barack Obama's convention speech.
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.
So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first
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I agree with all Barack Obama said but now I disagree with one thing. John McCain has just proven that he does NOT put our country first when he resorts to dumpster diving and divisive politics to make a pointless point. Shameful to the extreme!