At Okie Manor — Honoring and respecting the flag!

Over at Hot Air Ed Morrissey reports that the Obama Campaign had a little trouble figuring out what to do with over 12,000 American Flags that his supporters attending the Obamessiah’s Greek-column speech decided were just so much refuse.

Democrats brought out tens of thousands of American flags to Invesco Field, saluting Barack Obama as he spoke from the Styrofoam columns of the Barackopolis at the conclusion of the Democratic convention. Perhaps some of them took the flags home as souvenirs, but where did the rest go? According to David Harsanyi, they went into the trash — and would have gone to a landfill, except for a worker at Invesco who rescued them from the dumpsters:

That’s right buckaroos, those Green-conscious recyclers of all things plastic and glass couldn’t put two and two together and figure out that those flags could be reused at another rally, or that they could be given to local organizations for veteran grave decorations, or maybe just taken home and treasured as a memento of attending such a “historic” event. Sorry, my bad? These are Liberals — they support the right to burn the flag, to piss on the flag, to tromp all over the flag, don’t they?

The Obama campaign strongly objects to the story that they were going to throw the flags away. They claim that any flags removed from the stadium were in essence, “stolen”. Ed comments:

No one suggested here that it was a “nefarious plot”, and like Harsanyi, I hardly think that Obama would have directed his staff to throw 12,000 American flags in a dumpster. In fact, until Team Obama issued this ludicrous statement, the story didn’t have anything to do with them. However, the obvious carelessness with which the DNCC treated the flags is a rather revealing moment for them, and the lie for people in Obama’s organization.

Update IV: Gateway Pundit has pictures of individual flags sitting in trash bags, but that’s not the DNCC’s fault; it’s the fault of the individuals who threw out their flags. The DNCC couldn’t possibly be expected to sort through all of the thousands of bags of normal trash. They can be expected to know better than to toss 12,000 American flags in with it.

Maybe we are being a bit too hard on the poor attendees at the Invesco event. After all, they probably all learned their flag etiquette from Barack’s ol’ buddy of 20 years and self-admitted domestic-terrorist, Bill Ayers.

Unrepentant William “Bill’ Ayres desecrating US flag:
“We didn’t do enough . . .”

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