Campaign dispute over the flag

Source: The Sunday Star Ledger- September 7, 2008
page 10 section one

I read an article this morning in the newspaper, it told about a campaign dispute- over the American flag!

Barack Obama and John McCain recently agreed to appear together at a September 11th event at ground zero. At the republican airport rally for the McCain- Palin ticket, a radio newscaster announced to the crowd that veterans were going to give out small american flags that were discarded and rescued from Obama's DNC rally at the Invesco Field. He told the crowd that these flags were going to be thrown away or burned, and that they had been found in trash bags around garbage bins, and were given to the McCain campaign to rescue them.

The Democratic National Commitee and the Democratic convention said that these flags had actually been stolen by the McCain campain from the Invesco theater. Karen Finey, a Democratic National Commitee spokeswoman said that those flags had been waved proudly that night, and that instead of appreciating that, John McCain had took the left-over bunch of flags and made a political stunt questioning the patriotism of the democrats.

This story is very strange, and it is also humorous that a dispute would start out over the American Flag, something that should keep the country together. It would appeal to patriots in general, as it tries to show which party is more patriotic. I think it basically means that the struggle for the election has kept the parties so desperate for votes, that they are willing to stoop to the level of pulling ridiculous political accusations like this. I thought it was interesting to see that conflicts like this are arising amongst the parties and how they are trying to take votes from each other using childish methods.