Absolutely right, Clinton was not thrown out

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Days before the anniversary of September 11, on the same morning that John McCain and Barack Obama released a joint statement pledging to avoid politics in light of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, McCain's campaign accused Democrats of throwing away 12,000 American flags.

"The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there," Fox News reported, "and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage" for a rally in Colorado Springs, Col.

But according to a senior official involved in organizing the Democratic convention, the McCain camp is simply lying about the flags.

"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," the official said, speaking anonymously since he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Fox News' Carl Cameron and Bonney Kapp reported that they had "been told" that "a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign."

The Democratic convention official says that's not true.

"It's pretty reprehensible on their part," he said. "Someone made an assumption, took the flags, and essentially lied about what was going to happen to them. I mean, c'mon, we were never ever going to throw out flags."

Emails to three McCain spokespersons inquiring where the flags were found and how the McCain campaign obtained them were not returned.

UPDATE: DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney issues a statement: "American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. John McCain should applaud that, but instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism. On the same day he agrees to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero on September 11, John McCain attacks the patriotism of Obama supporters who so proudly waved the American flag at our historic event in Denver just days ago."

some us who smell something foul. Charges "can" be filed against him again. And for now he is "still in custody." Pretty soon, Gitmo will be closed and they won't have sufficient evidence to refile charges and they will say they have no choice but to release him...

certain he knows how to catch BinLaden and he puts country first it behooves him to tell anyone who will listen!!!!!

I think it will be all over after the first debate. Obama's poll numbers creeping up, but after debate, will skyrocket.

I should not have posted anything about myself, beliefs or opinions. I should have checked all messages from you first to make sure that I would agree with you so as not to expose your narrow-minded views to anything other than just that.

Absolutely. I just have such a strong belief in respect for one another. We need to think about what our chidren/grandchildren are witnessing us and others do and say each day. I don't care if the president is white, black, Indian, Asian, or otherwise...if he can just do his best for the country and, I know this is a long shot but, this not turn into a black/white issue. He's just a person. What does his skin color have to do with anything? We are all just people.

I keep thinking of Kennedy. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I just hope he doesn't try to do the convertable thing. I think he mentioned doing it at one point.

I really don't think Bush will try the directive 51 thing or anything like that, although I wouldn't put it past him.

....we could keep at this for a week and never convince one another, which is fine. We don't get to vote on this issue. America has spoken. We want change. The dems will have enough votes in congress to ram this through without any input from you or me. As AL Gore says: The science is settled. The debate is over.

1. You have such a low opinion of our elected officials (what with the lobbying, bribing, the royal retirements and all) yet you want to turn your healthcare over to them exclusively?

2. If you or someone you love are denied by your insurance company, you might be grateful for the opportunity to accept charity or hock everything you own for the chance to get help. Or you could just roll over and die. Your choice.

4. If you haven't the energy to fight with WDGD (We Don't Give a Damn) Insurance, what makes you think you can take on the FBHR (Federal Bureau of Healthcare Rationing)?

5. Why should you be bankrupted by having to pay higher taxes to provide healthcare for me or my family?

Anyhow, we both need to get a life, so I'm all finished posting about this subject

If my neighbor likes to slap his wife around a little, what business is it of mine? (Other than her screams occasionally waking me up at night, which is easily remedied with earplugs.) And if she should pound on my door one night asking for shelter - what kind of fool would I be to let her in? That might put me in the position of having to defend her - and would probably make her husband real mad. And when I hear multiple gunshots two streets over (a regular occurrence - there's Section 8 housing over there and they get kinda frisky) why should I care? Unless bullets are actually punching through my walls, is it really my business? And when I see someone breaking into my neighbor's car (not the wife beater - the other neighbor) is it really my place to intervene? If I see a shoplifter in a store shall I carefully avert my eyes - because what concern is it of mine?

Sure, I know, the appropriate thing to do is call the police in all these instances. But what if the cops are to the neighborhood as the UN is to the world? What if, when you call, they cannot be bothered to leave the station? Or maybe they convene a panel to study the problem in very general terms? Or what if maybe they just do a drive-by investigation? Or what if they actually go up to the neighbor's door and asked to speak to his wife and the man says, 'My wife. My house. Get lost.' And what if they then issue a very stern warning and leave? What if this happens every Friday night for years?

what we have is a mess, but what we will get with government-controlled healthcare will be so much worse. I have no clue how to solve the inequities in our current system but I know that letting big government take over for big insurance is another step in the wrong direction. It's another example of 'we must do SOMETHING' without having a clue what that something should be. We have to do something effective and nobody knows what that is.....yet.

If you think insurance companies are difficult to deal with now, wait until you have to get approval from a government bureaucracy. The inefficiency and expense of anything the government manages is legend.

Presently, there is a monetary incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs, for medical equipment companies to design new technology, for scientists physicians to perfect new treatments and techniques (other than having something named after them). When the government has sets profit limits and salary caps to prevent 'obscene profits from the illness of others' nobody will have much reason to break a sweat to do these things (again, other than having something named after them).

You CAN indeed murder someone and you WILL indeed be arrested. The difference is you actually CAUSED HARM to someone. You didn't do something that just went against the opinions of another person.

I have two children myself that are young now and I understand about "protecting" children, but give me a break, this world is so corrupt it's ridiculous! There is A LOT that I need to protect them from, NOT the fact that two people may love each other and happen to be the same sex.

I am not gay, so therefore I have no right to say yes or no to gay marriage, but I would never put someone down for having different beliefs than I do.