Originally published Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Comments
E-mail article
Print view
Campaign Notebook
Campaigns feud over bags of U.S. flags
The McCain and Obama campaigns are feuding about the flag. The spat began at an airport rally for McCain and running mate Sarah Palin. Before the Republican presidential ticket took the stage, radio personality Dan Caplis said veterans were going to give the crowd thousands of small U.S. flags that were discarded and rescued from Obama's Democratic National Convention rally in Denver.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The McCain and Obama campaigns are feuding about the flag.
The spat began at an airport rally for McCain and running mate Sarah Palin. Before the Republican presidential ticket took the stage, radio personality Dan Caplis said veterans were going to give the crowd thousands of small U.S. flags that were discarded and rescued from Obama's Democratic National Convention rally in Denver.
McCain supporters said a vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and around garbage bins after the convention, recovered them and gave them to the McCain campaign.
"We want to find good homes for these flags," Caplis said as veterans carrying plastic garbage bags full of neatly rolled flags distributed them.
A Democratic National Committee spokeswoman said the flags were snatched — not discarded — from Invesco Field.
"American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention," said Karen Finney, a Democratic National Committee spokeswoman. McCain "supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play out a cheap political stunt."
Clinton sidesteps questions on Palin
NEW YORK — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday but sidestepped questions about Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
"This election is about issues, and that's what's going to matter to people at the end of the day," she said after being asked about the Alaska governor.
She only mentioned Palin by name once, at a labor breakfast, when she uttered a modified version of a line from her speech at the Democratic National Convention: "No way, no how, no McCain, no Palin."
Seattle Times news services
Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
FBI reassessing past look at Fort Hood suspect
UPDATE - 11:40 AM
Obama remembers what Fort Hood victims left behind
UPDATE - 11:24 AM
White House: Obama eyeing host of Afghan choices
NEW - 12:06 PM
U.S. announces N. Korea nuclear talks
Bill Clinton meets with Senate Dems on health care

Ken Auletta talks about "Googled"
Ken Auletta talks about Google with Brier Dudley at the Seattle Central Library.
nwjobs

Post a comment

Michelle Goodman blogs about work/life balance.
How to tell your office you're gravely ill
Post a comment
nwautos

Choosing a new sedan? Weigh the impact of your choice on your wallet and on the planet.
Post a comment
- 'Missing' SeaTac man found with new name, in new state
- Police: DNA from officer's slaying matches suspect
- Lt. governor's son shot by co-worker in Kent; gunman then shot self
- McGinn next Seattle mayor; Mallahan concedes as vote gap widens
- DNA, ballistics tie man to cop killing, police say
- Prosecutors consider charges against suspect in police shooting
- Three more fires ignite in Greenwood
- Steve Kelley | Hasselbeck gives Seahawks' sagging season a stay of execution
- Plans call for Triangle to become West Seattle gateway
- Trucker dies as big-rig plummets off SF bridge
- Prosecutors prepare charges against suspect in police shooting
262 - House health bill unacceptable to many in Senate
261 - Pelosi tours Seattle's Swedish after health-care vote
204 - McGinn more than doubles his lead over Mallahan
177 - King County OKs 'don't ask' law on immigration
157 - Resolute Fort Hood soldiers ready for return
128 - Time to bring Ken Griffey Jr. back in 2010
94 - 'Missing' SeaTac man found with new name, in new state
85 - Josh Smith picks UCLA
84 - Cutaia says replay handled properly on Austin TD
71
- For 80-year-old Maple Valley man, hoops aren't just a dream
- Plans call for Triangle to become West Seattle gateway
- Three more fires ignite in Greenwood
- 'Missing' SeaTac man found with new name, in new state
- Silver Lake restaurant destroyed by fire
- Pakistani-American cafe, bar owner on verge of being Granite Falls mayor
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tours Seattle's Swedish after health-care vote
- All You Can Eat | Fruit flies: thrill to the kill
- McGinn next Seattle mayor; Mallahan concedes as vote gap widens
- Rainier Pacific Financial calls rescue 'unlikely'





