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Their statement imparts two claims:
1. Yes, we threw the flags in trash bags and set them at the garbage pickup.
2. We had good intentions.

I'm willing to take them at their word, because let's face it, a man can't read the intentions of another man with any certainty.

But please, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is a pretty transparent “I got caught but you can't prove it” and 10 is “Here's your proof, now apologize,” this Democrat Party reply is a 1.

Does this limp denial logically justify the headline: “SHOCK: BOGUS REPUBLICAN FLAG STORY EXPOSED?” Of course not. But it's good to see the clandestine Democrat-MSM relationship being forced out of the closet, out into the bright light of scrutiny.

I read the update where the person says that flags have been there for over a week and would have been thrown away. The question I have is why wasn't the trash picked up sooner? Don't they pick up trash more often than every week or two? Or was the trash picked up within the last week and the flags remained? I find it hard to believe that convention officials would actually leave trash sitting in dumpsters for over a week in the hot summer sun without having it picked up.

At any rate I think the Republicans are throwing our stories to raise the ire against Democrats and throw up a smokescreen around their own failings. The GOP so desperately needs to make this campaign about why the Dems can't lead the country.

All of you turned topsy turvey by this BS, SHAME ON YOU. I hate you. Each and every one of you. Because you care more about a piece of CLOTH than the patriots that shed their blood for it. SO SPARE ME. Your fake outrage does NOT impress. It is BS, and everyone, including yourself, knows it. It is only to to score political points. And you are lying, in effective, to make those points true. So may God Damn All Republicans Forever. This is my deepest wish and my most sacred prayer.

Is there a right to dispose of ones property, even throw it in a dumpster, if you don't need it anymore?

If I was to sit in my room, with my crayons, and draw an United Stated of America flag on a piece of paper, would I have created an object of reverence?

Some people who burn USA flags are just practicing cultural vandalism, but some are asking, “What's more important, the flag, or my right to burn it?”

Does someone actually have a right, when merely exercising it exposes them to scorn, ridicule and sanction?

I'm hoping the DNC takes legal action against the McCain campaign for stealing the flags.

There is nothing odd about the flags being there. It takes a long time to dispose of that many flags if you want to do it properly. If the Democrats wanted to throw away 125,000 flags they would have thrown them away last week with everything else.

This is a disgusting story from the GOP and doesn't pass the laugh test.

There may well have been flags in trash bags in Dumpsters after the convention. With tens of thousands of people in attendance and huge amounts of decorations, there were likely thousands of pounds of trinkets and displays to be disposed of, no doubt including many flags. Maybe you'd like somebody to go through all the trash from a convention hall and an outdoor football stadium by hand, separate out anything that looks like a flag, and hold a ritual pyre for it, but I doubt anyone did that and I can't see anything wrong with that. (And do you think that's what the GOP did with all their trash after their convention?) It doesn't upset me that flags may have gotten swept up and thrown away after a political convention, and I would assume that's exactly what happened after each and every political convention that has been held by every US party in history so far.

But the flags in the black bags shown in your post are obviously brand new and unused. They are clean, rolled neatly, and tied in identical bundles. It doesn't matter what kinds of bags they are stored in (you can call those “trash bags” if you like, but they don't have trash in them; why not just call them “flag bags”?). It's obvious those flags were leftovers from the convention, and I would assume they were going to be used at some later function, if only for reasons of expense.

Note also that it's obvious the GOP did not “rescue” any flags from actual trash bags – all the flags they show are neat and brand new. Which means the GOP also allowed the used post-convention flags to go out in the trash, after making a stink about finding them. They simply stole the clean, unused ones for their own use and then bragged about it.

For God's sake, grow up and find something real to talk about.

Why don't we let your comment develop into its logical conclusion. You say this like there is a way to not let the rest of the voters choose the next president. As if it was your and only your voted that decided. Show me a case when a presidential election was decided by 1 vote. If that were to happen, how many recounts do you think there would be. It would be even worse than the partisan debacle in 2000 (and I don't have to remind anyone about the hanging chad debate, as if something that subjective could be done in a non-partisan matter.)

you may not intend to insult, but over here in my world, even your last comment to jazz is thick with condescension. i'm fairly certain he grasps what you're saying; i believe he's simply taking the longer, less cynical (i think you confuse that with “less realistic”) view of the american political landscape. and i don't care how right you think you are, patronizing an honorable opponent is reprehensible. spiteful and mean is what it is, no matter what side of the aisle you fancy.

That “put your big boy pants on” term is (in my world, at least) a harmless way of saying that it’s decision time.

It’s a bit like “bite my fat white ass”, only with a little more finesse.