Falling Flags
ABC News’ Eloise Harper and Rick Klein Report: It’s been a rough stretch for Hillary Clinton — a tough debate performance, a lost voice, and the revelation that the Clinton campaign had been coaching questioners at events.
Then, on Sunday, everything started falling down around her.
After a very Presidential-esque news conference – Clinton turned around to leave the reporters and their peppering questions. A staffer swooped open a curtain, and chaos ensued. Four large American flags came crashing in front of Senator Clinton as she headed for the door. In a controlled panic, the staffers and the Senator attempted to catch the flags before they fell to the ground.
Watch the i-CAUGHT VIDEO HERE.
"I think the bases are not weighted enough," Clinton said as she propped flags back up. One of Clinton’s aides quickly summoned the advance man in charge to assist in the crisis.
Clinton’s spokesperson shifted back and forth between the cameras and the flag commotion before looking right at the cameras and saying, "Thanks everyone."
There were no planted questions to worry about, but on this Veterans Day the flags dropping all around the Senator created quite a stir among the press before Clinton fled the scene.
There’s more on Clinton’s recent woes — and whether the former first lady is looking more vulnerable than inevitable these days in The Note.
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Maybe that is a sign of what would happen if she became President with a Democrat controlled congress?
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 10:17 am 10:17 am
No comment needed. American flags falling in the presence of Hillary says it all.
Posted by: maz | November 12, 2007, 10:18 am 10:18 am
This is an omen.
America will come crashing down if Hillary is elected President.
Posted by: dlbizzz | November 12, 2007, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Is that karma or what?? Even the American Flags don’t like Hillary
Posted by: Mitch Pawl | November 12, 2007, 10:18 am 10:18 am
A perfect metaphor of what Hillary’s presidency would mean to this country!
Posted by: Miguel B. | November 12, 2007, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Talk about a harbinger of things to come. This is actually quite amusing. Poor Hilldabeast, the fates can’t be silenced despite her all consuming ambition.
Posted by: Allan | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
poor Hillary…
Posted by: artemis | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
Where is the video of this??? I can’t find any other report of this incident online? This sounds hilarious. Can you say media blackout?? Props to Eloise and Rick for reporting the truth and the bumbling Clinton campaign.
Posted by: Kevin | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
That’s exactly what would happen to the country if her or any other leftist Democrat were electron President. It would come crashing down. Didn’t we learn anything from her husbands ignorance of those that want to Destroy America? I know Dems didn’t.
Posted by: Bob Mac | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
The comments are stranger than the story….
Posted by: Rick | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
The ghosts of veterans past definitely don’t want Hillary as Commander in Chief. Hopefully this is a sign of her defeat in the general election.
Posted by: responsibleamerican | November 12, 2007, 10:20 am 10:20 am
“I’m glad you asked that question. I find that it’s the young people who wonder why these flags would spontaniously fall whenever I’m around. Flag falling is something we have to watch very carefully. Obviously, this president and republican administration do not seriously address the concerns of the American people concerning flag falling. When I am president, we will deal with the quagmire brought about by this administration.”
Posted by: Azul | November 12, 2007, 10:21 am 10:21 am
An omen of possible future consequences? Maybe sweeping an unqualified individual into power is not such a great idea after all?
Posted by: Frank Griffin | November 12, 2007, 10:21 am 10:21 am
Well, we sure saw the flags fall with Bush and his republican Congress. Seems like that is all they can do these days is make the flag fall.
Posted by: Wayne | November 12, 2007, 10:21 am 10:21 am
I think this was in Nostradomis’s predictions.
Posted by: Bob Mac | November 12, 2007, 10:22 am 10:22 am
If one believed in symbolism, or metaphors, one might think the Gods on Mount Olympus were sending a message with the falling flags about what will happen to America should this woman be elected our president. Where is a good Delphi Oracle when you need one?
Posted by: Ted S | November 12, 2007, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Even the Flags are out to get Hilary. Dems will call it a pile on make a video calling for the banning of flags as dangerous.
Posted by: Jeff | November 12, 2007, 10:22 am 10:22 am
An omen?
Did the American flags fall because that is the deepest, darkest wish of Hillary? The wish being a change from democracy to socialism? Does Hillary have the wish of changing the “Stars and Stripes” for a “Hammer and Sickle”?
I wonder…
Posted by: Bluecat4usa | November 12, 2007, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Is there video? It would make a great campaign ad.
Posted by: William | November 12, 2007, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Why is it NOW that Mrs. Clinton seems so vulnerable and coming up lacking? She’s the same Mrs. Clinton as always. The only thing now is she’s competing with OTHER democrats, and the media don’t feel so compelled to carry her water as when she competed with Lazio back in NY. “Listening tour”! What a crock! That just allowed Mrs. Clinton the ability to take pictures and nobody as her tough questions. But the media dutifully allowed her to get away with it. But now, things are different. Her opponents are other Democrats, and the facade has been lifted.
….bout time!
Posted by: Darryl | November 12, 2007, 10:23 am 10:23 am
Presidential news conference? Can ABC go a day without holding the Clinton water? Come on, why not talk about the problems with her programs, the massive tax increases, the destruction of our healtcare system or her latest mandatory sick days. Nah, let’s not focus on her flaws but some stupid flag falling.
Posted by: Dave | November 12, 2007, 10:23 am 10:23 am
FLED the scene? Geez how dramatic can u people get? Steve, based upon your comment, if you want to call it a “sign”, maybe you should call it a sign that a Republican was probably responsible for setting up the flags and rigged them to fall on her. No one can possibly do worse for the economy and world relations than the current administration – Republican OR Democrat.
Posted by: Mom in Maine | November 12, 2007, 10:24 am 10:24 am
We need to know where Bush, Chenney and Rove were when these flags were attacking Hillary. Another Congressional hearing is needed.
Posted by: H2OFowler | November 12, 2007, 10:25 am 10:25 am
An Omen. Removing the curtin behind her socialism and continuation of the illegal war and support for attacking Iran reveals the fate of America … the falling flag, the falling dollar, the loss of liberty and freedom.
Posted by: Greg | November 12, 2007, 10:25 am 10:25 am
Is this a sign? This says a lot to me. I’m not voting for any way.
Posted by: Sheba | November 12, 2007, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Sounds like a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to me.
Posted by: Tim | November 12, 2007, 10:26 am 10:26 am
The flags are picking on her because she’s a woman.
Posted by: Swibbie | November 12, 2007, 10:26 am 10:26 am
It was the vast right-wing that caused the flags to fall. Did she step on any? That pic would be worth $.
Posted by: John | November 12, 2007, 10:26 am 10:26 am
times have changed… 40 years ago she was burning them.
Posted by: Patrick Bateman | November 12, 2007, 10:27 am 10:27 am
Probably happened becuse she’s a woman an all those flags are male flags.
Posted by: mark | November 12, 2007, 10:27 am 10:27 am
you can only to so long without having to answer a difficult question. She’s never accomplished anything.
Posted by: linger-longer | November 12, 2007, 10:27 am 10:27 am
Even the Flags are out to get Hilary. Dems will call it a pile on make a video calling for the banning of flags as dangerous.
Posted by: Jeff | November 12, 2007, 10:27 am 10:27 am
Truth is stranger than fiction. In Hillary’s case, I think more than a few flags would fall if she became president.
Posted by: Schratboy, Boulder CO | November 12, 2007, 10:28 am 10:28 am
The flags falling all around Hillary are from the VAST RIGHT WING CONSPERACY.
President Bush’s staff members were hiding behind the stage and pushed them over on Hillary.
I know the Repubicans planed this in advance.
It just smells of a consperacy.
Posted by: Mitch Pawl | November 12, 2007, 10:28 am 10:28 am
It is indeed a sign that Hillary AND her Democrat rivals would all distress Old Glory.
I can’t wait to see the photos of this. I’ll put them right up on my blog with the photo of Obama standing with his hands folded while the other candidates have their hand over their heart while the National Anthem is playing.
It’s clear that none of the current crop of Democrats has the same reverance for the flag, and the great history it represents that you will find among almost any Republican candidate.
Posted by: Mike's America | November 12, 2007, 10:29 am 10:29 am
It is clear comrades that even the US Flag, the very symbol of this over-rated ‘liberty’ such imperialist parrots speak of, even it cannot even stand up to comrade Hillary. I ask you, if it cannot stand up to her then what chance do these imperialists really have? This is good!
Posted by: Mike M. | November 12, 2007, 10:29 am 10:29 am
VIDEO!! We must have VIDEO!
Posted by: BIFF | November 12, 2007, 10:30 am 10:30 am
“IT’S A VAST RIGHT-FLAG CONSPIRACY!!”
Posted by: Benny Raviloi | November 12, 2007, 10:30 am 10:30 am
A microcosm of her campaign right now. What an idiot.
Posted by: Guy | November 12, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
For her majesty, the flags are used, like everything else patriotic, for utility and cover. Trust her about as much as you would her pathological lying-compulsive fornicating husband, but no further.
Posted by: Floyd Rongonski | November 12, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
ha ha ha ha….
I like how the story ends: “the flags dropping all around the Senator created quite a stir among the press before Clinton fled the scene.”
Before Clinton Fled the Scene…. :-)
ha ha ha ha
Posted by: hapster | November 12, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
deliciously appropriate on about a thousand different levels.
Posted by: Chris | November 12, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Its the Bush administrations fault again! Where was FEMA! Bush’s incompetence is the reason for this falling flag tragedy!
Posted by: FEMA | November 12, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
For her majesty, the flags are used, like everything else patriotic, for utility and cover. Trust her about as much as you would her pathological lying-compulsive fornicating husband, but no further.
Posted by: Floyd Rongonski | November 12, 2007, 10:32 am 10:32 am
Not that I like Hillary- I certainly pray she is not elected….. But was W any more qualified to be president?
-curious
>>An omen of possible future consequences? Maybe sweeping an unqualified individual into power is not such a great idea after all?<<
Posted by: c.K. | November 12, 2007, 10:32 am 10:32 am
I hope someone had the good sense to burn the flags. NO, it’s not a shot at Hillary. It’s proper treatment. The flag should not touch the ground, and if it does, it should be burned and the ashes spread over the graves of Veterans.
Posted by: boB | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
This would make a great SNL opening skit.
Posted by: Del | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
On this Veterans Day, maybe the ghosts of soldiers passed representing the four branches of the military = four flags hitting the deck?
Posted by: Buster Bo | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
We need an immediate 9 month congressional investigation into flags, and why the bases are weighted the way they are, and with what material.
Then we need strict new laws governing how to weight flag bases, with harsh penalties and prison time for not following the rules.
A new federal office of flag base weighting will be budgeted for the DOE to ensure school children are taught the proper way to weight flag bases so this tragedy will not be repeated in the future.
Posted by: Jon | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
I hope we won’t need a new theme song.
O, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave?
Thus far, yes.
Posted by: DL | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Although, I’m not a fan, I’m hearten to see that Ms. Clinton at least tried to prevent the flags from falling to the ground. Way to go Senator.
Posted by: Not a fan | November 12, 2007, 10:33 am 10:33 am
WHERE IS THE VIDEO???!!!
Posted by: MikeHenry | November 12, 2007, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Definitely an OMEN!
Hillary would indeed bring the USA crashing down!
Posted by: ricardo maxwell | November 12, 2007, 10:35 am 10:35 am
I’m sure it was the vast right-wing conspiracy that made the flags fall, just as Hillary was leaving the stage. Poor thing. Maybe Bill will come to her rescue once again!
Posted by: Janice | November 12, 2007, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Stop picking on the girl!!!!
Posted by: George | November 12, 2007, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Worth repeating:
” We need to know where Bush, Chenney and Rove were when these flags were attacking Hillary. Another Congressional hearing is needed. ”
And Mom in Maine, verified this sort of ridiculous notion is ACTUALLY BELIEVED but Democrats!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Darryl | November 12, 2007, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Her vail is falling sooner then the Republicans would have liked. Why has it taken so long for Dems to begin to see some of Hillary’s many flaws. Dems refusal to face reality.
Posted by: DawnC | November 12, 2007, 10:37 am 10:37 am
This is amusing, but the real scandal is her staffers getting loaded questions into these events in Iowa. I’m voting for Guiliani. These lifetime politicians scare me. Rudy doesn’t need this, he’s got a hugely successful business. He kicked rump for NYC well before becoming Mayor and a hero.
Posted by: Chris - NYC | November 12, 2007, 10:37 am 10:37 am
She “fled the scene”?
OK, I’m no fan of Hillary, but damn… you think you could be a bit more objective there? Fled? Like they caught her red handed but she got away. Witnesses placed her at the scene of the crime. She once shot a man for snoring. What the hell?
Posted by: Michael | November 12, 2007, 10:38 am 10:38 am
This is news? What a bunch of dopes!
Posted by: MK | November 12, 2007, 10:38 am 10:38 am
Bad omen
Posted by: Jerry | November 12, 2007, 10:38 am 10:38 am
Hillary is use to this! Her husbands pants are still always falling! Funny but sad! WE ALL have let this country be taken over by (Let’s call it what it is) the Communist (Democratic) Party.
Posted by: Ryan E. | November 12, 2007, 10:38 am 10:38 am
It’s Bush’s fault!! It was a right wing conspiracy!!!!!! hahahhaaaa
Posted by: Tesa | November 12, 2007, 10:39 am 10:39 am
First, the debate. Then, the ‘they are picking on me’. Then, wet willie making things worse. Then, the planted questions at the news conference. Then Rangle hamstringing her.
Now God is throwing things…..geez when will it end for poor hildabeast?
New
Posted by: dave | November 12, 2007, 10:40 am 10:40 am
I think the flying monkeys must have swooped in a little too low.
Posted by: Mark | November 12, 2007, 10:41 am 10:41 am
RON PAUL is America’s last and best hope.
I hope everyone reading this article knows to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson | November 12, 2007, 10:41 am 10:41 am
Maybe it’s the spirit of Vince Foster!
Posted by: Tony Z | November 12, 2007, 10:41 am 10:41 am
I’m sure there is no video of this because the media doesn’t want to show her stepping on the flags as she prepares to fly on her broom to her next propaganda stop!!
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 10:42 am 10:42 am
It is a “boys club conspiracy!!! She better have a town hall meeting to find out how to respond!!”
sheesh are we ready for lady Macbeth or what
Posted by: Thomas | November 12, 2007, 10:42 am 10:42 am
ANOTHER RIGHT WING CONSPIRITY NO DOUBT…I WONDER IF GENERAL LEMAY HAD ANYTHING WITH THIS????
Posted by: WAYNE | November 12, 2007, 10:43 am 10:43 am
It’s true! American flags CAN sense evil…
Posted by: dogman | November 12, 2007, 10:43 am 10:43 am
haha!! Ill be looking for the video on youtube!! This is the good lord giving us a sign of things to come in the Hillary express!!
Posted by: Hobbs | November 12, 2007, 10:44 am 10:44 am
Some things are simply too coincidental to be a coincidence….like this telling episode and the fact that the prime anagram for ‘Hillary Rodham Clinton’ hs ‘Damn Chilly Iron Harlot’….we ignore such portents at our peril
Posted by: Robbins Mitchell | November 12, 2007, 10:45 am 10:45 am
Vast right wing conspiracy of course
Posted by: Brad | November 12, 2007, 10:45 am 10:45 am
I’m not that politically creative – but do you see a parallel between the media initially hopping on the Howard Dean bandwagon 4 years ago, when he simply let out a “Yaw!” after a strong performance and the media turned on him? He had the same goofy liberal policies as before, but I think the media determined “this guy can’t win. We’d better get behind someone else.” And Kerry was now the “chosen one”. I think we’re starting to see the same thing here with Hillary being “dissed” by the media for Obama.
Posted by: Azul | November 12, 2007, 10:45 am 10:45 am
Why has this simple, insignificant
event been given so much attention?
People, some flags fell. It’s
called gravity, and it hardly warrants the description “chaos”. If you watch the
video, the idea of applying any
symbolism or significance to it is
absurd.
Posted by: taj | November 12, 2007, 10:45 am 10:45 am
What do nothing congressional committee will hold hearings on this major catastrophe?? It certainly needs Condi, the new Dpt. Of Justice and Gates to answer for this planned attack on the next Commander in Chief! I heard Bill was there but couldn’t help because his zipper was stuck.
Posted by: Jack | November 12, 2007, 10:46 am 10:46 am
What do nothing congressional committee will hold hearings on this major catastrophe?? It certainly needs Condi, the new Dpt. Of Justice and Gates to answer for this planned attack on the next Commander in Chief! I heard Bill was there but couldn’t help because his zipper was stuck.
Posted by: Jack | November 12, 2007, 10:46 am 10:46 am
When you betray the cotton, the cotton turns against you.
Posted by: Mockinbird | November 12, 2007, 10:47 am 10:47 am
Both the actual “news” story and the comments say all that needs to be said. Americans and the Media no longer know what real news is and the readers are salivating with their comments, as if they mean anything. Gonna fall if Hillary is elected? Take a look around ya, will ya. Open dem eyes for just a bit a see what you are all leaving for your children and grandchildren! Ah… never mind… you guys aren’t interested in that! Here and now, that’s all you care for.
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2007, 10:47 am 10:47 am
So, who was the person behind the curtain?
I know she’s the witch, and her aides are the flying monkeys…
Life (clintons) sure does imitate art (Wizard of Oz)!!
Posted by: Bob | November 12, 2007, 10:47 am 10:47 am
Where’s the video?!?!? There must have been dozens of cameras that got this! How about just a still picture please?!?!?
Posted by: John | November 12, 2007, 10:48 am 10:48 am
For all of you that have such hateful things to say about Hillary, good luck with the alternative – Guiliani or the Ken Doll – Mit Romney. They should be able to continue the warmongering and the destruction of our economy. All of you deserve what you get – you put a dolt in the White House who has single- handedly destroyed our reputation in the world, got us into a bloody war based on lies – lined the pockets of his friends with your money and you still haven’t had enough. You would be lucky to get Hillary as President – its time for someone with a brain unless that’s too hard for you to imagine given the mess this country is in at the moment. See you at the gas pump you bunch of morons!
Posted by: Mandy | November 12, 2007, 10:48 am 10:48 am
America already has fallen down thanks to Georgie Boy.
$9 trillion in debt, and growing. A war with no end in sight cause hundreds of billions, for nothing.
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2007, 10:48 am 10:48 am
The wind from the wings of the millions of true American patriots who haved joined the eternal corps was just strong enough to send the flags flying. I believe my Father, Grandfather, and Great Grandfather (all proud veterans who are now together in peace) were in the front of the charge. She only tried to pick them up because she is evil enough to know the damage if she didn’t.
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 10:49 am 10:49 am
I am no fan of Hillary, but this is just silly. Stuff happens when a person is constantly in the public eye. The first Pres. Bush barfed on Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi in ’92. Gerald Ford’s mishaps were legendary. Let it go – she had a silly mishap and seems to have coped with reasonable grace. “Fled the scene?” This is journalism?
Posted by: Terry | November 12, 2007, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Yes, strange there’s no *working* link to the video. Well, AB? Let’s have it…did Hilary get to you?
Posted by: Dave | November 12, 2007, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Flags fight back! Ironic humor and it’s very funny! How fitting for her.
Posted by: TexBork | November 12, 2007, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Uh-Oh.. Another million dollar investigation from Congress.
Posted by: mb | November 12, 2007, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Do you remember the 60 Minutes interview when the Clintons were trying to survive the Jennifer Flowers affair and the camera lights almost fell on Hillary? At the moment when the big lie was being told? Spirit communicates in many ways.
Posted by: John T. | November 12, 2007, 10:51 am 10:51 am
It isn’t real until it appears on the 6pm news to alot of people. Which is why it showed up here where people with more than a 10 second attention span might look for news.
Posted by: James | November 12, 2007, 10:51 am 10:51 am
Although I’d never vote for that lying neo-communist pus bag .. er, ‘scuse me, I mean “progressive”, I question why this is even a news story. Come on folks, this was just an accident that could happen to anyone. It’s totally meaningless. It’s nonsense to think it’s some kind of omen about Hillary’s future.
Posted by: Whatever | November 12, 2007, 10:52 am 10:52 am
Remember the 90′s bumper sticker “Clinton Happens”??
Maybe it’s time for a come back!!
Posted by: Bob | November 12, 2007, 10:52 am 10:52 am
Are you sure that Hillary didn’t plant the falling flags so she could catch them and have a moment where she saved the flag? Everything Hillary does is scripted for efect, I think some one blew it and didn’t do on Que!
I love it Hillary is self destructing, her whole campaign is phoney, I can 100% tell you she got soft ball questions from planted people all over the country ever since she started, it’s the Billy Bob phony boloney how can we fool the voters 100% of the time!
Remember whe Bill Clinton was on the beach at Normindy an mysterously there where a pile rocks on the beach there where no rocks on the beach anywhere except right conviently in front of the ship and there just happened to be a man with a camera as Clinton made a symbol on the beach another complete BS plant, in the Normandy grave yard he picked up little American flags that had fallen in the grave yard and put them back on TV! Everything they do is scripted for effect!
These people are so phoney, remember Ron Browns funeral, where Clinton was laughing making jokes with friends and his hands where going everywhere, he see’s the camera rolling, he goes from happy to somber and crying it 2 seconds flat as the camera rolled, he got exposed!
Iowa Hillary looses, HN, NC, SC Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Ca. then it’s over, the horrible 20 year Dynasty is over!!!
Posted by: anti Hillary supporter | November 12, 2007, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Priceless
Posted by: BizAg83 | November 12, 2007, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Clinton Happens !!
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Really? This is what you people use as fodder for aggression against a democratic candidate. Have you lost all sense of reality where you’re reading into some flags falling down in her presence as a sign of something ill to come, yet everyday, the current administration continues to destroy the very fabric of our country’s ideals through very realistic acts and you stand by with hands on your hearts crying patriotism. for shame.
Posted by: Ryan | November 12, 2007, 10:54 am 10:54 am
Good to see all the BDS* children are at the keyboards today. What will you be whining about when the terrorists come for you and your weak kneed leaders can’t surrender fast enough to save your sorry butts
*Bush Derangement Syndrome
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 10:54 am 10:54 am
Whoa! First God repeatedly zapped Rudy with Lightning strikes in the first GOP debate as he attempted to say how his faith is important to him, just not enough to want to protect innocent, defenseless life in the womb. Now God is saying America will crumble if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidency!
This must mean that God too is hungry for a debate between two candidates who each are driven by improvement and not power, Romney and Obama.
Posted by: iBrock | November 12, 2007, 10:54 am 10:54 am
Amazing how republicans resort to voodoo and superstition. What’s next, a black cat crosses her path and we see a photo of her dressed as a witch?
Posted by: Richard | November 12, 2007, 10:54 am 10:54 am
If you want to avoid the disasters that Clinton, Obama, and Rudy will cause, and all the tax increases that will come along with them, then read up on Ron Paul and support him.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
http://www.teaparty07.com
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 10:55 am 10:55 am
LETS SEE IF THE MAINSTEAM LEFT WING MEDIA CARRIES THIS NEWS.
Posted by: jim pier | November 12, 2007, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Really? This is what you people use as fodder for aggression against a democratic candidate. Have you lost all sense of reality where you’re reading into some flags falling down in her presence as a sign of something ill to come, yet everyday, the current administration continues to destroy the very fabric of our country’s ideals through very realistic acts and you stand by with hands on your hearts crying patriotism. for shame.
Posted by: Ryan | November 12, 2007, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Get this video out there with the soundtrack of Hillarity singing the, “Star Spangled Banner.”
Posted by: HorizonScanner | November 12, 2007, 10:59 am 10:59 am
“yet everyday, the current administration continues to destroy the very fabric of our country’s ideals through very realistic acts and you stand by with hands on your hearts crying patriotism.”
Ryan, you would probably not recognize the amount of sacrifice most of the people here have made since you are obviously blinded by your hatred of Bush. My countries ideals are under attack by people who have pledged to kill you and me. The President and his Cabinet have done everything they can to protect us from people who have made it a oly mission to destoy us. Wake up and smell the burning aviation fuel.
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 11:01 am 11:01 am
“I think the bases are not weighted enough.” Clinton said as she propped flags back up.
I guess that’s what happens when you dump those old rugged, military style “manly” base(s).
Posted by: gwin | November 12, 2007, 11:01 am 11:01 am
Karma:Four large American flags came crashing in front of Senator Clinton as she headed for the door
Video of the Senator on Veterans Day! According to ABC News:
There were no planted questions to worry about, but on this Veterans Day – the flags dropping all around the Senator created quite a stir among the press before Clinton fled the scene.
I hav…
Posted by: Right Voices | November 12, 2007, 11:02 am 11:02 am
The Smoking Gun has the video, but it’s not up yet, and I can’t find it. Anyone know how to get it?
This needs to be sent to Rudy’s people asap.
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2007, 11:03 am 11:03 am
What really disturbs me is the amount of personal bias these comments show. It appears to me that they are just another chance for people to get in their personal attacks over something that is as unimportant as “acts of nature” or not enough caution in securing the props. Come on guys………a little intelligence please!
Posted by: Janice | November 12, 2007, 11:05 am 11:05 am
Seriously? This passes as news?
People need to assess the character and opinions of their presidental candidates. They do not need to consider this nonsense.
Posted by: Matt | November 12, 2007, 11:05 am 11:05 am
I bet MSNBC will blame Bush for
makeing the FLAGES fall,they blame him for everything else.
Mack
Posted by: Mack C. Stewart | November 12, 2007, 11:05 am 11:05 am
The amount of comments on something as trivial as this shows more about the posters than it does about the actual subject
Posted by: John Ryan | November 12, 2007, 11:06 am 11:06 am
I think this incident is more symbolic of the state of our nation. The flags crashing and Hillary coming to the rescue. Our country screaming for help, she needs us now. Bush has completely screwed up our image around the globe and our financial status at home is in equal dissary. READ guys…educate yourself then make an informed decision. I’m not voting Hillary yet…she hasn’t convinced me.
Posted by: UR Brain | November 12, 2007, 11:06 am 11:06 am
Stop picking on the girl? (?) (?). Excuse me Miss Janice, but when this tough, smartest twit in the world becomes our next prez, I will DEFINITELY BE PICKING ON THIS GIRL BECAUSE IT IS STILL LEGAL AND TO PAY BACK DEMS FOR PICKING ON BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS…SO BRACE YOURSELF. REPEAT: BRACE YOURSELF!
….you know how us mysogenist men can be……
Posted by: gesurvivor | November 12, 2007, 11:07 am 11:07 am
I enjoy hearing about anti-Hillary stuff. Flags falling in her presence is great symbolism. I hope she continues to falter and eventually drop from public life. Can’t wait for days I don’t have to hear about her.
Posted by: John Wark | November 12, 2007, 11:08 am 11:08 am
The same people that conspired to knock Scare America’s Randi Rhodes off of her barstool, set this flag escapade up! Those lousy Republicans!!!! LOL
Beef
Posted by: Beef Daddy | November 12, 2007, 11:08 am 11:08 am
Bush did it.
Posted by: ben | November 12, 2007, 11:08 am 11:08 am
Maybe the dead babies of Waco did this? Not wanting to see the Clintons back in office, having dealt with the consequences of their “ideas” before, could be the dead at Ruby Ridge,or the over 3,000 victims of the bad blood scandal from his/her Ark. days, hmm could be alot of things hu?
Posted by: amanda | November 12, 2007, 11:09 am 11:09 am
If you think those bases were not strong enough, wait until we are attacked again and we find out how weak our real bases are because of years of mindless closings under BRAC (especially during the Clinton drawdown). People will be shocked at how weak and vulnerable we are. I can hear the crying now: Why oh why did we allow ourselves to get in this position? Oh woe is me… and all of you Bush haters (Code Pinkos) that are proud of teaching your kids that the military is bad: who will fight to save you then?
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 11:09 am 11:09 am
The flags fell because of global warming. And the only solution to this problem is stem cell research.
Posted by: JoeBob | November 12, 2007, 11:09 am 11:09 am
I bet MSNBC will blame Bush for
makeing the FLAGES fall,they blame him for everything else.
Mack
Posted by: Mack C. Stewart | November 12, 2007, 11:10 am 11:10 am
Somebody quick, where’s the video!!!!
Posted by: Newzaroo | November 12, 2007, 11:11 am 11:11 am
I’ve seen at least three different links to the video this morning, and every one is suddenly “service unavailable”. Looks like the Hillary damage control hit squad and their happy servants in the media are working hand-in-hand as usual.
Posted by: p3orion | November 12, 2007, 11:12 am 11:12 am
This is a vast right wing conspiracy
Posted by: ryan2 | November 12, 2007, 11:12 am 11:12 am
Funny things do happen on the campaign trail. Some of these comments are hilarious. Others, well…..maybe need to lighten up a bit.
I do wonder what her words/reaction was AFTER she got away from the microphones (she has a reputation for lashing out with some pretty foul language).
To be a fly on the wall……
Posted by: Mac | November 12, 2007, 11:12 am 11:12 am
Happy Vetyerans Day to all of my brothers and sisters in arms who risked all in their service to their fellow (often ungrateful) citizens. God Bless America and God protect us from ourselves.
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 11:13 am 11:13 am
It is obvious the problem with the flags is that they were made in china. Just another example of cheap goods hurting hard working american citizens due to the trade agreements of this administration. mr. bush bring flag pole production home!
Posted by: steve | November 12, 2007, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Happy Veterans Day to all of my brothers and sisters in arms who risked all in their service to their fellow (often ungrateful) citizens. God Bless America and God protect us from ourselves.
Posted by: MstrMac | November 12, 2007, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Each flag stands Obama, Edwards, Dodd, and the fool how try to plant questions for Hillary. This is what is called a symbolic PILE ON of Hell-Larry. As president, this she-mail wannabe will ban all american flags at her future press conferences. But I digress. Let’s be honest, those wonderful flags do the american people and our besmurched troops a huge propaganda favor against her and the treasonous liberals in congress. Thank you old glory.
Posted by: jack wills | November 12, 2007, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Where is the country’s reputation tarnished? In Europe? No! In the African continent? No! In Asia? No! Other than Cuba and Venzuela, what “countries” where is the rub? And the economy? The strongest ever in US history.
You keep spouting the same old worn out democrat talking points. The facts do not support your tripe! I suggest you move to Venzuela or Cuba and enjoy all the freedoms Hillary would bring to the oval office.
Posted by: Reggie | November 12, 2007, 11:16 am 11:16 am
Every site that has this article and a hyperlink to a video of the event has a message saying that the video is no longer available! Has Hillary Clinton coerced everyone into not showing her embarrassing video??
Lorna
Posted by: Lorna Alexander | November 12, 2007, 11:16 am 11:16 am
All the video links say:
SERVICE UNAVAILABLE
If this accident had happened to a Republican, it would be available everywhere. Think about the implications of that for how the media contributes to our impressions of candidates.
Of course the falling flags incident means nothing in and of itself, but it is quite meaningful in illustrating how the MSM will protect a Democrat from embarrassment.
Posted by: sherlock | November 12, 2007, 11:16 am 11:16 am
Perhaps, a message from GOD? No progressives don’t believe in GOD.
Posted by: Govchance | November 12, 2007, 11:17 am 11:17 am
For all of those “this is what is to come” nostradamus’s… look at the shambles our country is in now because of Bush. A war we can’t get out of, a declining economy, and no public faith in the government… IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE!
Posted by: yezzir | November 12, 2007, 11:19 am 11:19 am
Take note America. Kerry will come on tv tell the world Bush caused the flags to fall. Hillary will complain she’s a victim. Obama will ‘FINALLY’ salute the flag. and Edwards will celebrate with a haircut and facial.
Posted by: dedubya | November 12, 2007, 11:21 am 11:21 am
Even tha American flags “made in China”, the country Bill Clinton sold us out to does not want her to be president.
Posted by: WIlly Brown | November 12, 2007, 11:22 am 11:22 am
I noticed that the flags all crashed down to the LEFT.
Posted by: Fred | November 12, 2007, 11:22 am 11:22 am
Yes, leave it to the right wing to read omens and portents of things to come from inanimate objects. Next what will we have, casting of the bones and reading entrails? No wonder they did such a bang up job on reading the pre-war intelligence about WMD’s
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 11:22 am 11:22 am
Why are so many conservatives superstitious fools?
Posted by: Doug | November 12, 2007, 11:23 am 11:23 am
The flags falling are similar to lightening striking when someone has done something wrong.
Posted by: Dr. Joshua E. Gates | November 12, 2007, 11:23 am 11:23 am
Hopefully it is a prophecy from Old Glory herself because the image of her walking from the WH to Marine 1, and her saluting the Marine standing guard at the bottom of the steps turns my stomach!
Posted by: CJ | November 12, 2007, 11:24 am 11:24 am
I’m not fan of Hillary. However, to all the commenters who said it was a portent of things to come if she’s elected…At least she tried to catch the flags. Bush would have sat there reading “my little goat”, just like he did on 9/11. And have someone pick up the mess. Just like he’s doing now.
Posted by: raging moderate | November 12, 2007, 11:24 am 11:24 am
I believe that the real illary will come shinning through all the glitter. Her life has been somewhat two faced. A socialist at heart.
I would fear that Bill would be her confident in the decisions she would make. It turns my stomach to think of her as President.
Posted by: Al Farr | November 12, 2007, 11:25 am 11:25 am
I know
it is the right winged conspiracy
isn’t that always her answer
Posted by: michelle | November 12, 2007, 11:26 am 11:26 am
I dislike Hillary and won’t vote for her, but I think calling this a metaphor or omen is reading in too much.
Posted by: AG | November 12, 2007, 11:26 am 11:26 am
1) Of course the questions were planted. It’s the oldest trick in any political book. If someone won’t ask the question for your message for the day, put someone up to it.
2) I think the falling flags may have been set up, in hopes of a photo op of “Hillary picking up our fallen flag”, like the setup of Bill Clinton on the beach at Normany, “finding” a pile of stones, and arranging them in a symbol of a cross.
The Clintons are in the business of symbolism over substance. At least Obama believes in why he is running. She’s ruined the Dem Party.
Posted by: dennyt | November 12, 2007, 11:27 am 11:27 am
So…why has ABC disabled the link to the video? Surely they aren’t censoring content, are they? Nah….ABC being the fine, non-partisan, un-biased news orginization that they are would never do such a thing…would they?
Posted by: Mark in IAH | November 12, 2007, 11:27 am 11:27 am
It’s Bushes’ fault Hillary. He planted those trick flags.
Posted by: AC | November 12, 2007, 11:27 am 11:27 am
where is the video. do they have that much power to shut it down
Posted by: bill | November 12, 2007, 11:28 am 11:28 am
can she just quit already?
Posted by: mikedee | November 12, 2007, 11:29 am 11:29 am
So the flags are committing suicide in front of Hillary…..priceless.
Posted by: mstory | November 12, 2007, 11:29 am 11:29 am
A sign that she is a cook goose.
Laugh for us cause we just love the chicken cluking
Posted by: Big Dog | November 12, 2007, 11:29 am 11:29 am
It can’t get any worse than the Bush administration.
Posted by: Manny | November 12, 2007, 11:30 am 11:30 am
Bush must have set-up the flags to fall. I’m sure it was remote controlled. Or, the flags were bowing down to her to hail in the next president. :-)
Posted by: John Spankman | November 12, 2007, 11:31 am 11:31 am
What has happened to the falling flag video link? Was it suppressed?
Posted by: mick | November 12, 2007, 11:32 am 11:32 am
Just being a member of David Rockefeller’s pro-war and pro-North American Union private thinktank, the Council on Foreign Relations, is enough for Hillary to destroy American sovereignty. This woman is bought and paid for, 100%. She does not represent American citizens, only international corporations. Same goes for most of the candidates except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Do your homework, people!
Posted by: Jersey M. | November 12, 2007, 11:32 am 11:32 am
Even cosmic intervention aside, the falling flags is demonstrative of the contempt the Rodham-Clinton camp has for our Coutry’s sacred symbols, and by inference, military and people, that proper care of the flags was not taken in so important a venue. Why does this women want to be President anyway?
Posted by: Matt Sullivan | November 12, 2007, 11:33 am 11:33 am
Those flags are clearly sexist males. How dare they try to make Hillary look bad on TV! More “politics of pile-on!”
Posted by: squeenter squillo | November 12, 2007, 11:33 am 11:33 am
Even the American Flags fight it’s suppressors! USA! USA! USA!
Posted by: Buzz | November 12, 2007, 11:34 am 11:34 am
In the years to come Political Commentators will look back on this moment as the “Swift-Flagging” of the failed Presidential Campaign of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Chad Durbec | November 12, 2007, 11:35 am 11:35 am
A crisis? Did I read this correct. “One of Clinton’s aides quickly summoned the advance man in charge to assist in the crisis.”
Why is everything a crisis?
And now she is fleeing the scene??
Way to sensationalize everything ABC
Posted by: Dan | November 12, 2007, 11:35 am 11:35 am
maybe she should plant the flags and waive the questions
Posted by: ernie theurer | November 12, 2007, 11:35 am 11:35 am
I question the timing.
Posted by: libby | November 12, 2007, 11:35 am 11:35 am
Figures the video is no longer available. I wonder what Clinton hack/operative/spin doctor/lackey/cover up is responsible for bringing down the server.. I guess they can’t handle the truth!
Posted by: Bill | November 12, 2007, 11:36 am 11:36 am
I wonder what would happen if she went into a CHURCH!!
Posted by: SeaGee | November 12, 2007, 11:36 am 11:36 am
What a bunch of nasty people! Perhaps the flags were embracing her.
It’s not a wonder that our country is in such chaos with attitudes like this.
It takes a lot of courage to run for the highest office on the planet. Let’s have a little respect for those who are willing to do it.
Everyone who posted the unkind remarks should make it your business to qualify to run for an office in the next election. What is that old saying about walking a mile in the moccasins?
Posted by: Janet | November 12, 2007, 11:37 am 11:37 am
Reminds you of what Homer Simpson did to The Stone Cutters Parchment! LOL!!!
You can’t make this stuff up!
Posted by: coast2coast | November 12, 2007, 11:37 am 11:37 am
Its funny, your hatred of this woman blindly makes you look at the flags falling around Hillary as a sign that America will fall if she is president, what you failed to see and read was that she and her staff caught the flags before they hit the floor, which is a sign that she will keep America from falling WHEN she is president.
Posted by: ubuibi | November 12, 2007, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Who cares? The Clintons will continue going on being the train wreck they always have been. The only difference is they always walk away while others are left to pick up the pieces. It would have been nice though if either of them had done an honest days work in their entire life.
Posted by: Richard | November 12, 2007, 11:40 am 11:40 am
Flags: Obama won’t honor them, Hillary knocks them down.
The symbolism is just so fitting.
Posted by: Paul F | November 12, 2007, 11:40 am 11:40 am
Maybe she didn’t tip the flag rental guy.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 11:41 am 11:41 am
Hillary will likely win the election and the country, like the flags, will come crashing down. Even the world power brokers hiding behind the curtains will not be able to stop it….
Just another one of those things that makes you go, Hmmmmm….
Posted by: Scarman | November 12, 2007, 11:41 am 11:41 am
I love when people talk about quagmires.
It let’s me know immediately they have a quagmire between there ears.
Posted by: CR | November 12, 2007, 11:43 am 11:43 am
Janet ~ You ask for RESPECT for a woman of her jaded character?? I’d rather respect a snake, because at least a snake will show what it is and what it’s motivations are. Hillary will not show her scales and fangs until she is in power. God help us all.
Posted by: Paul F | November 12, 2007, 11:43 am 11:43 am
Thanks Kevin for posting an alternate video. However it’s not as funny as I hoped it would be – I thought the flags fell ON TOP of her. Now THAT would have been funny.
And did I see that only the flags TO THE LEFT fell down? bwahahaha! that’s a bad omen for the Democratic party.
Posted by: Sally | November 12, 2007, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Even American flags are asking for hillary’s help. They need help to stand straight with the help of Hillary.
Posted by: Raj | November 12, 2007, 11:47 am 11:47 am
Take notice all yee who read this. This is the outcome should this person become leader of the greatest nation on earth, it will as did the flags, come crashing down around us with absolutely no way of saving it for the future generations to come. If this is to happen, now is a good time to teach your children arabic, for they will need it.
Posted by: james | November 12, 2007, 11:48 am 11:48 am
Hooray for Old Glory defending America!!! The Washington Monument may take a crack at her next.
Posted by: JP Zingher, esq | November 12, 2007, 11:48 am 11:48 am
Amen, James!
Posted by: Sally | November 12, 2007, 11:49 am 11:49 am
A SURE SIGN OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN to America if she was ever President! AMERICA WAKE UP!! LIBS WAKE UP!! Our country is too great to see a Hillary Clinton turn it to a socialist state!
Posted by: Larry | November 12, 2007, 11:49 am 11:49 am
I’m looking forward to seeing the clip, but your player appears to be swamped.
Maybe after the Drudge Tsunami rolls back out to sea, I’ll have a chance to. There’s a reason why Drudge placed 3rd on the Telegraph’s list of most influential conservatives. All hail Drudge!
Posted by: TomInRoyalOak | November 12, 2007, 11:51 am 11:51 am
That’s what happens when you buy cheap US flags from China.
Posted by: Mauricio | November 12, 2007, 11:51 am 11:51 am
Thats just what the country needs a: lier,cheat, and thats just her husband!
Posted by: Walter | November 12, 2007, 11:52 am 11:52 am
Who killed the video???????
Posted by: phil | November 12, 2007, 11:52 am 11:52 am
DUMB UBI POSTER WROTE:
>>what you failed to see and read was that she and her staff caught the flags before they hit the floor
NO SHE DIDN’T. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO KNOCKED INTO THE FLAG BECAUSE SHE’S A CLUMSY OAF AND THE FLAG FELL TO THE FLOOR AND SHE DIDN’T CATCH IT. IT WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR. CRASH!
Posted by: Sally | November 12, 2007, 11:52 am 11:52 am
OH LOOK, THE IDIOT AMERICAN PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL BANKERS WHO OWN MOST OF THE PLANET’S WEALTH AND WHO SEEK A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DISTRACTED THE UNEDUCATED SHEEP. LOOKS LIKE THE SHEEP DESERVE TO BECOME CORPORATE, POVERTY-STRICKEN SLAVES WITH NO PRIVACY. YOU GET WHAT YOU WORK FOR, IDIOTS. VOTE FOR THE “TOP-TIER” CANDIDATES IN 2008 AND LOSE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR FREEDOMS.
Posted by: Jason Gesmundo | November 12, 2007, 11:52 am 11:52 am
Flags falling in gretaer number everywhere are more sure signs of the Gorbal Warming apocalypse. We must slay free enterprise NOW before it unleashes flesh-eating monkeys upon us.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 11:53 am 11:53 am
If appearing on Veterans’ Day brings American flags crashing down, I shudder to think what happens next time she appears in a church.
Posted by: Jay | November 12, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
Considering, a true American is not supposed let Old Glory touch the ground while on staff for any official American business, war, political statement, or public showing, this goes to show us the true character of Hillary Clinton. She not only let the flag drop, but she ran away, instead of taking responsibility for the grounded American Symbol. She ran away.
Posted by: Craig A Sheffield | November 12, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
THE FLAGS ARE TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING!
Posted by: MK | November 12, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
Everyone else is saying it, and I will too: this is just a little Shakespearean-style forshadowing of what will happen to this great country if she ever becomes president!!
Posted by: Georgie Porgie | November 12, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
GLOBAL WARMING!!!
The winds became unusually strong and the fire, no, oops, the flags were forced to fall.
I vote for the Congressional investigation. We need to get to the bottom of this.
Posted by: Mac | November 12, 2007, 11:55 am 11:55 am
Saw the video. It’s really not as deep as people want it to be.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 11:55 am 11:55 am
Or perhaps it was a Clinton style staged event, where Hillary has the chance to “rescue’ the falling flags!
Posted by: Tony | November 12, 2007, 11:56 am 11:56 am
Poor Billary, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Probably another vast, right-wing conspiracy!!
Posted by: Lorraine | November 12, 2007, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
You focus on the substantial crap that barely dents the thinking of her loyalist followers, when we have things like hillcapDOTorg providing details for serious wrongs this person has done.
I see this kind of reporting as more means to pass a sympathetic vote on her …
Just to say; there’s several better reasons to NOT give her the nomination than what’s being provided nationally.
Posted by: Joseph | November 12, 2007, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
These comments had me ROTFL! Even the ones coming to her defense, which made me laugh even harder. People, this woman is a polarizing figure (which can be gleaned from the comments here), and would make a terrible president. TERRIBLE PRESIDENT! Still, this was a great read this a.m. Thanks for the endorphine rush!
Posted by: WettingMyPants | November 12, 2007, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
Where is Rep. Joseph Kennedy when you need him? We need him to sing our nation’s national anthem in this time of need for Hillary. Last time he sang it, he almost got 3 words of it right!
Posted by: JCB | November 12, 2007, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
seriously, why is the fact that the flags were knocked down reportable news. What about her speech etc… or does that require too much effort and research to be important…
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2007, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
ohoh….its all the fault of global warming, suvs, a vast right wing conspiracy and bush. and its a perfect
example of what would happen if hillary takes office: America would fall.
Posted by: Beverly Daniel | November 12, 2007, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
There will be no flags falling around Dr. Ron Paul.
Posted by: Ray from Texas | November 12, 2007, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
Way too funny!!! Those flags dropped faster than her husbands trousers with an intern.
Posted by: USMC | November 12, 2007, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
Hahahahahaha…just desserts..that is symbolic of what will happen to the country if this witch is elected
I can’t see the video yet..says “server too busy”..lots and lots of people are stopping by to see this train wreck of a woman get what she deserves!
Posted by: Brett Caudill | November 12, 2007, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
FOX NEWS to the rescue!! They have the viceo up..I love a good laugh in the morning.
Posted by: LM | November 12, 2007, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
Hahaha! Oh the irony. PLEASE tell me that’s an omen for Hillary. Regarding the Ron Paul comment above, he and his ilk are anti-war pansies like peacenik libs. We don’t need pacifism during our nation’s distress of constant terror threats both at home and abroad.
Posted by: Lt. Dan | November 12, 2007, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
The flags are attacking the communist,salute
Posted by: glenn | November 12, 2007, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
If this had been a Republican the DNC would have launched attack ad after attack ad and this would be non-stop leading negative Liberal Media coverage for a week. As usual, Hillary gets off easy because A) She’s a Democrat & B)she’s a woman.
And we all know that’s the truth of the matter.
Posted by: TruthBeTold | November 12, 2007, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
The video seems to be working again, at least for now. Thanks ABC, for doing the right thing and putting it back up.
Now, while you’re in a mood to do even things that might cause Her Majesty some difficulties, how about getting into some less-trivial issues?
–Ask her about the 1993 Healthcare task force.
–Ask her when the Archives will release those messages Bill is stonewalling.
–Ask her where those billing records were for the two years between the time when they were subpoenaed and when they showed up.
–Ask her who really ordered the firings in the Travel Office.
–Ask her how she made a 10,000% profit in ten months trading cattle futures.
–Ask her if she thinks it was appropriate for her brother to make hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for a pardon for a convicted felon, a pardon that was granted hours before her husband left office.
–Ask her if, knowing that Bill lied about Monica Lewinsky to the entire country (and under oath to a grand jury), she really thinks Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Gennifer Flowers all were lying.
–Ask her if she thinks enabling his behavior and “standing by her man” is appropriate for someone who considers herself a feminist role model.
–Ask her what accomplishments she has made in her term as a Senator.
–Ask her what she has ever done that makes her qualified to lead our country, let alone its Armed Forces.
Heck, just ask her if she’s come up with an answer to Tim Russert’s illegal-alien driver’s license question yet!
It shouldn’t have to be left up to us schmoes on the internet to ask the tough questions. You’re the reporters. It’s your job. How about doing it?
Posted by: p3orion | November 12, 2007, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
Well from the comments Hillary Clinton doesn’t appear to be the one to bring this divided nation together. After all Hillary has spent her life fighting Republicans (except when she was on the Young Republicans club in college). She’s a divider which is exactly why I’m voting for Mitt Romney who a believe can bring our divided nation together again.
Posted by: Allen Ridge | November 12, 2007, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
Yeah…that’s the solution….waste your vote on Ron Paul….hahahahahaha!!!
How about a Ron Paul-Mike Gravel ticket?
Posted by: Don Raul | November 12, 2007, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
Jesus weeps! The posts by the right wing hate squads makes you wonder if some people should merely be given Nerf Votes – a new category of votes that couldn’t really do any damage even when wielded by the hateful, the demented and the irrational. I move for a constitutional ammendment that would require people to be at least half rational in order to cast a real vote.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
“American flag bases”
(made in China)
Posted by: SHAWN | November 12, 2007, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
It’s global warming, damut. It’s softening the flag bases. Quick! Call Al Gore!
Posted by: Awkins | November 12, 2007, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
That was hillarious- and probably an omen.
anyway its conspiracy not conspency….liberal teachers suck
Posted by: Jules | November 12, 2007, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
Yeah…what p3orion said….times two.
Posted by: Other Brother Daryl | November 12, 2007, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | Nov 12, 2007 12:14:10 PM
“I move for a constitutional ammendment that would require people to be at least half rational in order to cast a real vote.”
So do I – that would cancel out about just about all of the Democrat vote.
Posted by: Jesus Freeps | November 12, 2007, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
There is no such thing as a wasted vote.
Stand up for yourself, and vote for who YOU think should win, not who the Main Stream Media tells you should win. This isnt a stupid episode of American Idol, do some reasearch and really understand the issues and candidates, there is a HUGE difference between Ron Paul and the rest of those who represent the same old garbage.
If you want REAL change vote for a candidate who has integrity and understands foreign relations and the economy, and who wants to help us here in America before spending $$ billions over seas, then vote for Ron Paul.
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
Now, now… let’s not talk of disenfranchising the Irratio-American community. Dennis Kucinich deserves his right to vote, too.
Posted by: p3orion | November 12, 2007, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Why blame the anti-Hillary comments on the “right wing hate squad”?? There are many clear-thinking Democrats that also think Hillary would be a bad president. What do you think the other candidates are doing, running against her?
Posted by: Anonymous | November 12, 2007, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
The Lord showed us awhile back (2006) that Hillary will be our LAST elected president; He told us in 2001 that she would be elected. The flagfall is a very significant sign of what’s to come – God’s judgment on America.
For another picture of America’s future, look up the vision given A.A Allen by God on July 4, 1954. It’s on the Internet, and it features the Statue of Liberty.
And for a preview of what’s coming to America’s Sodom and Gomorrah (S.F. Bay Area), look up A.C. Valdez on the Internet and read the prophetic vision God gave him in 1929. The fulfillment of this vision will mark the beginning of the end of America, and it will take place within a very few years.
America’s last hours are going on now, and there will be no more “good old days.”
This all is “Thus saith the Lord.” As it is written, “…God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psalm 7:11), and “The wicked shall be turned into HELL, and all the NATIONS that FORGET God.” (Psalm 9:17) SELAH!!
Posted by: Gordy | November 12, 2007, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
A sign from God I would presume.
It is foolish to disavow these signs. Hillary is possibly the anti-christ and what else do we need to prove it besides the Flags of our country falling down on Veterans Day.
It is a sign I say, a very big sign. Do not let her near contro of our troops, they will fall like the flags did.
Posted by: Bill | November 12, 2007, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
Hey Mom in Maine. Guess you subscribe to the theory that there is a vast right wing compiracy of getting the flags to fall on Hillary. Hillary doesn’t stand for anything, why should the flags stand for her??
Posted by: SilasSez | November 12, 2007, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
SIGH!!!! Why is it, no matter what the story, there is always some dope smokin, hippie, liberal making the inevitable transition into a conservative touting Ron Paul? Look, the PRIMARY job of our president, aside from being commander and chief, is the head of foreign policy. Ron Paul is pathetically weak on foreign policy. Until he grows a pair he will never be taken seriously.
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
Excuse me, but Ron Paul is a member of International Relations committee, how in the world do you have the nerve to say he knows nothing about foreign policy?? He knows and understand more than any of these candidates.
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
Omen? Karma? Seriously?
You people are seeing exactly what you want to see. Hand of God? It’s called a coincidence.
How about, “Oh no! The ink in George Bush’s pen ran out! This must be a sign that his power over legistlation is waning!”. It means nothing.
I can’t believe this is even considered news.
Posted by: seriously | November 12, 2007, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
Omens of things to come.. HRC is the end of American freedom.. even the fates show us our error.
Posted by: Richard | November 12, 2007, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
Not sure if this has been said..couldn’t quite read all the comments…but I bet the flags heard that Hillary has friends that like to burn all their stars and stripe buddies and that she would more than likely call it freedom of speech so they dicided to take a shot at wiping her out by ganging up on her.. Just a thought
Posted by: john | November 12, 2007, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm
Hillary has just announced that if she had not been fooled by Bush’s lies that reiterated her husbands truths about the adequacy of the flag eqipment that she never would have purchased it and been its foremost advocate among the DemoCrats.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
An omen? Of course this is. No other explanation. I think your beginning to see her going down in flames.
Posted by: WatchingHillary.com | November 12, 2007, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
And God has spoken…The fall of a Nation is to be associated w/ her in office.
Posted by: VeteranD | November 12, 2007, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
Why do leftist like Rodham have American flags flying behind them when they much prefer to burn American flags?
Posted by: Tom | November 12, 2007, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Hillary and her type (liberals) have pressured the school systems around America to stop teaching patriotism, loyalty, and Godliness through lawsuits, etc. When these kids start (it is already happening) will they vote as patriots to this nation or just to satisfy their own agendas? I live in fear of the “me only” generation that the liberals have ushered in with the liberal tripe they have shoved down the throats of our achedemic system.
Hillary is a pawn of socialism, but Obama is even worse. Edwards is just an ideological idiot.
Posted by: Doc | November 12, 2007, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
Wow most of you people think the flag is
alive, or that god knocked them over.
I really worry about this country when
we have so many truly CRAZY people.
Bush/Republicans controlled the country
for the last 6 years. They knocked over more than just flags. and they
fixed NOTHING.
Posted by: blackie | November 12, 2007, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm
One more Dem tries to throw in the flag to stop the horrible string of Bush victories over the Afghan, Iraqi and Libyan terror rogues.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
It’s just one more guy “piling on”
In this case, God :-)
Posted by: adsfad | November 12, 2007, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
NOTICE EVERYONE!
THE ONLY FLAGS THAT FELL WERE TO THE LEFT OF HILLARY CLINTON AS SHE PREPARED TO WALK AWAY. THE LEFT! THE FLAGS ON THE RIGHT STAYED PUT! LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! THEY WILL WIN NEXT YEAR!
Posted by: Sally | November 12, 2007, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
I find it ironic that, despite the much-touted “morality” of God that many right-wing/conservatives proclaim to be the foundation of their values, all I see on forums like this, are messages of hate, vindictiveness, narrow-minded ignorance.
Good game religion, good game.
Posted by: I can't believe you guys | November 12, 2007, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm
Caught on i-video? Where is the TV coverage this ?!
Posted by: cm | November 12, 2007, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
God doesn’t pick dummies for servants. He picks the humble but brave. You might try that sometime, “I can’t believe you guys”. :)
Posted by: Sally | November 12, 2007, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
I don’t believe in omens and one does not need such thing to know Hillary C. by herself would be bad news enough then when you add Slick Willy to the mix. No way. This country cannot stand four years of these two clowns.
Posted by: Will in NC | November 12, 2007, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
We are just tired of Liberals being able to say anything (no matter how vile or ignorant) and get away with it, but when a Consevative says anything the liberals (media) dog pile them.
Posted by: URSTUPID | November 12, 2007, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm
The personal attacks on Mrs. Bill Clinton by these flags must be stopped. Wow, they were really piling on her on that stage. I bet if you really focus on the flags, you will see Karl Rove knocking them down. Or it could have been the same unnamed staffer that was setting up the phony questions. Either way she is the victim of some nefarious action. I hope Bill Clinton rushes to her defense, these flags are engaged in the politics of personal destruction an must be stopped.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
Someone please explain to me the disparity between what the mass media say in regard to Hillary’s presidential inevitability and the negativity I hear everyday main street people say about her. I estimate that America is against her 20:1
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
I think that the falling flags
are a sign of Karma. If you try to
fool the people eventually life
catches up to you. Already I see that
it has 50,000 hits.
Posted by: LOUIS SIMPSON | November 12, 2007, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Well Bubba is in Arkansas doing a Conference on Philanthropy..
So dang he missed his horrible wifes incident.Either way if bubba is making any type of money from his conference,he wouldn’t leave money to see about hillary anyway.Remember 1 thing about Bubba,money talks and B.S. walks.So what hillary just went thru means crap to bill,he figures she can take care of herself.And his money is still flowing.
When people get to know Bubba they will find out,how sincere he is about his pet projects and not about his wife’s
failures or screw ups.
Thank You for the Applause.
Posted by: LadyBug2 | November 12, 2007, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm
Billary Clinton is a communist. So is Obama and the rest of the liberal Democratic party. They want to destroy America.
Posted by: Don't B Fooled | November 12, 2007, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
Now that the wind has shifted again and Iraq is more secure than ever watch Hillary try and dust off her Bush victory bandwagon credentials she trashed over the last several months to goose up her Hippie Earthmuffin support.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm
I believe the men and women who have served and died for this country have just weighed in on Hillary’s campaign.
Posted by: Steve I. | November 12, 2007, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
Well Bubba is in Arkansas doing a Conference on Philanthropy..
So dang he missed his horrible wifes
incident.Either way if bubba is making any type of money from his conference,he wouldn’t leave money to see about hillary anyway.Remember 1 thing about Bubba,money talks and B.S. walks.So what hillary just went thru means crap to bill,he figures she can take care of herself.And his money is still flowing.
When people get to know Bubba they will find out,how sincere he is about his pet projects and not about his wife’s
failures or screw ups.
Thank You for the Applause.
Posted by: LadyBug2 | November 12, 2007, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
And as Hillary spoke the flags came down
Left and right and all around.
It was dishonesty
Disturbed their gravity.
And as she spoke the flags came down.
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
God really does have a sense of humor and is trying to show America the diaster that Hillary is and will be for America.
Posted by: chrisb | November 12, 2007, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Tsk, Tsk. Very funny from the party that keeps yelling “The Sky Is Falling”. LoL
Posted by: Al In Vegas | November 12, 2007, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
.
“Four large American flags came crashing in front of Senator Clinton as she headed for the door.”
Now, even God has gotten into the STOP CONNIVING CALCULATING CLINTON movement.
Wake-up Dems – the party can do much better than Conniving.
.
Posted by: ALEX H. | November 12, 2007, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
According to a website which lists the omens associated with different things falling, it says this about flags:
FLAG.—If it falls from the staff, while flying it means danger from wounds inflicted by an enemy.
’nuff said
Posted by: Patty Markle | November 12, 2007, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Just so everyone is clear, this is not about tips, or planting questions, Falling Flags, or Chinese Money Laundering.
This is about the Clinton’s World View:
They both have a firm belief that Reality is not what has actually occured in this existence, but what they can convince the majority of the population to believe occured becomes Reality.
To them Reality is something that can be manipulated and shaped to their own advantage, despite of what has actually occurred. Just look at Bill’s Presidency (or Post Presidency.)History revised before our eyes by trying to reconstruct reality.
This World View is inherently evil. BUT – Don’t take my word for it; look at Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad, Chavez and the list goes on, But they all employed the very same tactics.
Both Clintons believe that one Superpower is dangerous and needs a Counter Superpower
(In this case China — so show us the money!)
Naturally the Clinton World View has permeated their entire Spin (Or Propaganda) Machine.
The tactics (The 4 D’s) they used to Deflect, Deny, Discredit, Destroy are time tested and work as well today as they in Stalin’s time. (I was kind of hoping this species would have evolved as little more)
This manipulation of Reality can only be accomplished with the cooperation of the mass media. This is why scenarios’ that take even the best politicians down, run off the Clinton’s like water off a Duck’s back.
In the first Clinton Presidency, the Media protected, admired and marveled at how well Bill could lie and manipulate with such grace and bravado.
This could not happen if there were real journalists and a free press today, there is not. The sad fact is – they are as plastic and phony as the second Clinton Campaign.
This is why the Clinton’s can lie about anything from tips to planted questions to dubious suicides. They know they can manipulate Reality and destroy the accusers with the help of a compromised media that loves them and fears them at the same time.
Posted by: Bill | November 12, 2007, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Boy – you right wing nut jobs are just scary crazy. You can’t talk issues – you just talk hate – the Christian Jihadists who march us toward Armageddon. Your definition of patriotism is warped beyond all recognition. Blinded by your own arrogance and self-righteousness, you are bereft of common sense and any understanding of what democracy really is. What’s next for you crazies? Suicide bombing?
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
Everyone keeps saying this is a BAD omen and that it’s a sign of things to come is she is elected president. In many ways, our country has already fallen under George Bush. Has anyone even thought about the fact that Hillary picking the American flag up AFTER is fell is a sign of her restoring our nation? I would think so…
Posted by: Mario | November 12, 2007, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
oh she picked them up – let her alone. Is this what the media is really going to focus on?
Posted by: BenMurphyNYC | November 12, 2007, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
I wonder if they followed the protocol for disposing of a flag that has fallen to the ground. I guess they think the flags were just props and treat them as such.
Posted by: SAm | November 12, 2007, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
Wake up and smell the ‘ 0 unempoyment rate’ and the increased wages in America. Are you truly blind, deaf and stupid, or just a brain dead democrat? You can either talk to your shrink or the governor of your state for your peoblems.
Posted by: Scrapiron | November 12, 2007, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
it was dead veterans speaking out against this totally unqualified phony senator from a pagan state.
Posted by: deroy | November 12, 2007, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
>> What’s next for you [Christian Jihad] crazies? Suicide bombing? <<
Yep. Should happen any day now. Just as bad as the real Jihadi massacres on our innocents and non-Muslim people everywhere you and your DemoCrat leaders call a "bumpersticker" war. A war they plan on losing ASAP.
Any day now. Just like the Great Bush Oil Theft in Iraq and Afghanistan and soon, Iran. Should happen any day now. Right, Earthmuffin?
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
Hillory has no redeeming qualification for the Presidency other than blind ambition and socialist guidelines, but this article and video show more of the media than Hillory.
“presidential news conference.” An editorial bias, and nothing to substantiate it. Secondly as much as I despise Hillory, her spin, and her policies, there was no chaos here and no panic. A couple of flags got bumped, they stopped to put them back up and left…The only news here is the editorial hype…You guys and ladies in the media stink…. report the news not your whims and fantasies….
Posted by: John MacIntyre | November 12, 2007, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm
Hillary keeps hollering “When She Is President”
Who in the hell gave her that idea.
She acts like other candidates are below her and she’s the smartest in the race.That’s why i don’t care about her.She never uses her brain to think before she speaks.She’s Miss Almighty and think others are failures.Take a deep look in the mirror Hillary before judging others,you might find you need to clean up your own house, mine and body, before judging others.
We only have one God
and you’re not God.
So you’re not perfect.
So Stop downsizing the candidates,cause actually they could teach you something.
Posted by: LadyBug2 | November 12, 2007, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm
I see that the Freepers have fallen in a swoop, like the vultures that they are, to try to pick apart Hillary over the non issue of a few falling flags that someone knocked over.
Pathetic…..
Posted by: Bea | November 12, 2007, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
This video was a major dissapointment!
Posted by: Cooper Hightower | November 12, 2007, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Reading the auguries:
The flags falling is America under Bush. It was Hillary who prevented or restored to flags to their rightful place.
Now falling off a stage would’ve been another story.
Falling off a stage is never a good sign e.g. Bob Dole, Gary Bauer, etc.
====
Posted by: greenpagan | November 12, 2007, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Are we really calling that chaos?! Some flags fell and she tried to pick them up. I think some people are trying to make some hay out of nothing.
Posted by: Austin E | November 12, 2007, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm
Karl Rove at it again.
Posted by: LV | November 12, 2007, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
It’s obvious that these flags are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy of flags against the former first “lady”.
Posted by: Blackhawk | November 12, 2007, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
No chaos here! Just a pretend Commander in Chief who turned coat on her military support of winning the Jihad declared against us trying to look like a fighter on Veterans Day and having the flags fall down around her.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
You would need to ‘suspend disbelief’ if you think it was not caused by Bush and global warming.
Posted by: ck | November 12, 2007, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
It’s interesting watching conservative Jesus-freak nut jobs getting into a lather and sliding off their respective chairs at a non-event.
Hey Jesus freaks: ECONOMY!! ECONOMY. You have no idea how bad things are about to become due to your little Jesus freak boy wonder running the county. Please grow up and look at your wallet.
Posted by: Bill W | November 12, 2007, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
This campaign gets funnier and funnier. Of course this would never happen to Obama cause he doesn’t believe in the American flag so he’s safe.
Posted by: YourMan | November 12, 2007, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
That cinches it. The war is lost. Our sodiers are terrorists. The defense of our country against the Jihad’s promised “American Hiroshimas” vowed during the Clinton term is just a bumpersticker.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Oh Please. A minor accident occurred, which Hillary and her staff handled very well. Hillary herself reacted quickly to prevent the sacred flags from touching the ground. You people are really grasping at straws when you say this is Karma, and veterans ghosts, etc. ad nauseum. Nobody could run this country into the ground moreso than Bush has done over the last 7 years. His abysmal poll numbers are testament to that! You 23%ers are small in number, but you whine enough to be pesky!
Posted by: Scuby | November 12, 2007, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Won’t someone make a clever metaphorical link between this event and the future? silliness aside, damn you’ve got to be a sucker to vote for Hillary. The Clintons are lobbied and controlled as much as Bush. I don’t know about Obama, but at least he’s said that he wants to change the election system. Beyond them, I know that Ron Paul actively wants to take drastic measures to cut back goverment.
Actually I’d vote for anyone who supported term limits for Congress! Take the money out !
Posted by: Kenny | November 12, 2007, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
You’re right Bill in your previous post:
“In the first Clinton Presidency, the Media protected, admired and marveled at how well Bill could lie and manipulate with such grace and bravado.”
I’m afraid if she were elected President of our once great country, the press will just report on Bill Clintons dalliances to divert attention from Hillarys’ attempt to implement her agenda whatever that is. I’m afraid that we won’t know what it is until it is too late. God help us. PLEASE!!!
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
The flags were probably ‘shocked’ that Senator Clinton attened a Veterans’ Day ceremony. I believe she avoided Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day observances as First Lady.
Posted by: Don Wright | November 12, 2007, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
Omens? Signs? Please – Anything at all to slam the woman. Stick to the issues at least if you have a criticism you won’t sound petty. Senator Clinton is extremly hard working and intelligent; if elected she will do the best she can for this country, if people give her a chance.
Posted by: Elaine Hughes | November 12, 2007, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
THE RIGHT-WING NUTS see an omen that the world will come crashing down if Hillary is elected. Oh please, Grow up!
Even for this REPUBLICAN – it can’t come crashing any worse than the last two-terms of GWBush – Incompetent In Chief. JAN. 20, 2009 HANG IN THERE AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: TOMCAT | November 12, 2007, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
A question Hillary will never plant:
How is it that Saddam HAD WMD’s in ’98 when Bill Clinton bombed them in Baghdad and in Sudan, but lost them after he kicked out all the inspectors and after Bush beat Gore?
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Mrs. Clinton Throws Aides Under the Bus
As the reality sinks in that Mrs. Clinton is now quite vulnerable, it’s time to play the victim and lay the blame elsewhere.
Posted by: JammieWearingFool | November 12, 2007, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
“A minor accident occurred,”
I’m ripping my own heart out agreeing, but the flags did not seem to have bases heavy enough to do their job. Let’s talk about the waitress’ tip in Maid-Rite, Iowa. Oh yeah, the flags did tip.
Posted by: U NO HOO | November 12, 2007, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
Today’s scoffer will be tomorrow’s wailer.
Posted by: Gordy | November 12, 2007, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
Even for this REPUBLICAN – it can’t come crashing any worse than the last two-terms of GWBush
Enough spin already lib. The Truth will out.
Posted by: Buzz | November 12, 2007, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
Waterloo…HMMM…BRINGS TO MIND ANOTHER EVENT AT A PLACE CALLED WATERLOO..THE FRENCH WERE INVOLVED. (that should say alot about what would happen).
Posted by: BILL JOHNSON | November 12, 2007, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
OK, Elaine Hughes. What has Mrs. Bill Clinton done? Name five major accomplishments, please. Handling Bill’s bimbo eruptions does not count. Asking for a list of her accomplishments is not a personal attack, by the way.
p.s. I bet Tomcat is really a republican. I am sure that he is as conservative a Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
We now have to retire that flag that hit the ground. Right? If so, I feel Americans who would run for president, would know that
Posted by: Bukowski | November 12, 2007, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
WOW! I imagine that staffer got a vacation…
Can you imagine her backstage after that?
Posted by: d | November 12, 2007, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
See? They should have thrown those flags in a pile in the closet – just like she and HillBilly did when they were in the White House.
Posted by: Cheryl | November 12, 2007, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
A bit too convenient. Anyone remember the fallen flag at Normandy that Bill’s staff had knocked over, so he could “catch it up”? What a piece of work is each of these idiots.
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between” Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like “America Deceived’ from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov’t Will and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
Posted by: Peter | November 12, 2007, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Clintons & Dems Now Forget THEY First Proved to Us the Saddam – Bin Laden WMD Connection Was A Threat to Us
From Clinton’s Secretary of Defense in his 2004 9/11 Commission Testimony:
“Concurrently, the U.S. intelligence community obtained physical evidence from outside the al-Shifa facility in Sudan that supported long-standing concerns regarding its potential role in Sudanese chemical weapon efforts that could be exploited by al Qaeda.
The al-Shifa facility had been under surveillance for some time because of a variety of intelligence reports, including HUMINT reports identifying it as a WMD-related facility, indirect links between the facility and Bin Laden and the Iraqi chemical weapons
program, and extraordinary security – including surface-to-air missiles – used to protect it during its construction. The direct physical evidence from the scene obtained at that time convinced the U.S. intelligence community that their suspicions were correct about the
facility’s chemical weapons role and that there was a risk of chemical agents getting into the hands of al Qaeda, whose interest in obtaining such weapons was clear.”
“To give you a sense of the difficulty of developing intelligence against terrorist targets, consider the al-Shifa facility in Sudan that we destroyed in 1998 because of the
intelligence community’s assessment that it was associated with terrorist efforts to obtain chemical weapons. At the time, the intelligence community at the highest level repeatedly assured us that “it never gets better than this” in terms of confidence in an intelligence conclusion regarding a hard target. There was a good reason for this confidence, including multiple, reinforcing elements of information ranging from links that the organization that built the facility had both with Bin Laden and with the leadership of the Iraqi chemical weapons program; extraordinary security when the facility was constructed; physical evidence from the site; and other information from HUMINT and technical sources. Given what we knew regarding terrorists’ interest in acquiring and using chemical weapons against Americans, and given the intelligence assessment provided us regarding the al-Shifa facility, I continue to believe that destroying it was the right decision.”
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
It’s amazing to me that some of these bloggers know that flags falling down around Hillary means it’s “a sign.” And, if she weighs more than a duck on a scale she’s a witch? Look at yourselves, are you serious? If you don’t want to vote for her don’t, but don’t freak the rest of us out sharing your “middle-ages” point of view.
Posted by: Ben | November 12, 2007, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
I remember the set lights crashing down and almost hitting both Hill & Bubba after they lied on 60 Minutes about his womanizing and extra marital affairs. That was an omen too!
Posted by: Steve D | November 12, 2007, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
“It’s amazing to me that some of these bloggers know that flags falling down around Hillary means it’s “a sign.” And, if she weighs more than a duck on a scale she’s a witch? Look at yourselves, are you serious? If you don’t want to vote for her don’t, but don’t freak the rest of us out sharing your “middle-ages” point of view.”
Ben, everyone knows that if she weighs more than a duck on a scale she WOULD be a witch. Where have you been?
Posted by: Buzz | November 12, 2007, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Tax the flag manufacturers, then use the extra tax revenue for an investigation. Also, ah, blame Bush – big time! Bush or Cheney have to be behind this somehow!
Posted by: Jeff | November 12, 2007, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
That’s just so funny! Almost poetic. First BO turns in his flag, says he doesn’t want to appear patriotic, and refuses to acknowledge it during the National Anthem, yet here’s Little Ms Socialist being attacked by the flag BO doesn’t respect! Hahahaha!
Posted by: TexBork | November 12, 2007, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
Another right wing plot to strangle a Clinton….
Posted by: Rick | November 12, 2007, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
God answers prayer!
Hope Americans are smarter than they have been the last two administrations.
We need A Ron Paul walking into office–20 years of following the Constitution and his oath to the American people and Constitution.
We need no more blue Dresses and overspending this country into a third world country.
Posted by: Dino | November 12, 2007, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
This is news… how?
Posted by: Sigh | November 12, 2007, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Does Ms. Hilary own a skirt or dress anymore? Or is the pant suit symbolic of trying to “be like the boys” she talks about.
Posted by: al | November 12, 2007, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Oh noes! Bad juju! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is trying to tell us something!
Posted by: Rev. Wackadoodle | November 12, 2007, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
About the “boys ganging up” on Ms Clinton. If she becomes president and commander in chief, just who do she think is going to be on the other side when she has to make a decision about sending troops into harms way, or about mashing the “launch” button?
Posted by: Herb | November 12, 2007, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
I completely agree with Chris who wrote: “It’s Bush’s fault…Bush’s incompetence is the reason for this falling flag tragedy!” Certainly, it IS symbolic of our lower standing in the world since he was appointed president. When even the Italians think less of us, then you know we’ve sunk to a new low!! I personally don’t care who wins this election, Rep or Dem, because there doesn’t seem to be an idiot in the group. (I disagree with some of them — especially Hillary on her less than honest health care stand and Romney on state-legalized medical marijuana but they all seem intelligent and competent.)
Posted by: Bob | November 12, 2007, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
I bet Hellary and her camp will want to waterboard the poor fool responsible for those flags falling down.
Posted by: Phil | November 12, 2007, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
Accomplishments? This is from the very conservative on-line publication – News Max:
Hillary Clinton is an extraordinarily successful senator. Everybody says so – including New York voters, 61 percent of whom report in the latest Quinnipiac survey she’s doing either a “good” or “great job.”
the article continues to describe what she did in her first years in office:
Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11
• Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
• Assist landmine victims in other countries
• Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care
• Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
We still LOVE you, Hillary!!! You are a fightter…. go and kick some Republicans’ behind…. :-)
Posted by: Tommy | November 12, 2007, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
The Clintons know better than anyone else how much a threat the Saddam Hussein regime was to the US via its terror surrogates geting its WMDs. They even bombed those links in different times and places, as I posted an example above.
Now the Clintons disavow that George Bush had any legitimate evidence of Saddam being a WMD threat to the US.
They “FORGOT” out of pure partisan political ambition.
Bill himself even went as far as to publically say, in an ABC interview with Geroge Stephanopolis, that he felt, as former Prez, that the US lacked sufficient troops to back up the ones in already Iraq.
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy using his inside knowledge…
That, my fellow Americans, is TREASON.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
“Nobody could run this country into the ground moreso than Bush has done over the last 7 years. His abysmal poll numbers are testament to that! You 23%ers are small in number, but you whine enough to be pesky!” (from “Scuby”)
How easily the liberals forget the approval numbers of the Congress they lead! Last time I checked, the numbers were LESS THAN HALF of Bush’s approval ratings! You 10%ers are small in number, but you whine enough to be pesky! LOL
Posted by: IA vet | November 12, 2007, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
When the flags started falling at Hillary Clinton’s appearance in Waterloo Iowa on Nov. 11th, it was an ominous foreshadow. It reminded me of Henry Hyde’s eloquent remark at the impeachment hearing of Bill Clinton. He said, “The flag is falling, catch the flag.” Everyone knew what he meant.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
As numerous people already mentioned, it’s all part of the cast right-wing conspiracy. Just wanted to give that sentiment an additional nudge.
Flags falling down around Mrs. Rodham-Clinton’s ears, that same candidate getting caught stuffing the crowd with plants, and the crowd at a Mellencamp concert booing that hack Edwards off the stage — let the games begin!
Posted by: Jackie | November 12, 2007, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
NEXT YEAR THEY WILL BE REPLACED WITH COMMUNIST SOCIALIST FLAGS,MADE IN CHINA.
REMEMBER THE TOP SECRET NUKE INFORMATION SOLD TO CHINA.AND STILL COLLECTING ON.SHE IS BRINGING SOCIALIST TAXES TO US REAL SOON.
Posted by: michael | November 12, 2007, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
Bob: You are right on our lower standing in the world these days thanks to Bush the Bungler. As a lifelong Republican, I voted for him in 2000 and I have seen our popularity and trust in the world fade after 9/11. I sure as hell didn’t make the same mistake by voting for him the second time. VOTE FOR RUDY!!!
Posted by: Gary D. | November 12, 2007, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
“One of Clinton’s aides quickly summoned the advance man in charge to assist in the crisis.”
Crisis? Wow, Drudge highlights this like it was significant and the Drudge Lap Dogs, AKA the mainstream media, eat it all up. Get a life “Note” takers.
Posted by: Seeryer | November 12, 2007, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
Democrat? Republican?
The only divide I see here is between reasonable people and the idiots who think this is some sort of omen.
Stick to the issues.
Posted by: I can't believe you guys | November 12, 2007, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Wait, I know…those flags are part of a vast right wing conspiracy!!! Right libbies?
Posted by: Andrew | November 12, 2007, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
BILL CLINTON COMMITTING TREASON ON THE GEORGE STEPHANOUPOLIS SHOW
“STEPHANOPOULOS: Would you put more troops in [IRAQ] now?
CLINTON: I don’t know if they can, and I think it’s even more important not to let Afghanistan fail, even more important. You know, you’ve got civilian contractors moving out of Afghanistan. We had a record week of casualties there last week. Every time we put a soldier in Afghanistan, we get a soldier from NATO. ”
The US Constitution, Art. III, Sec. III: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Clinton gave aid and comfort to the enemy we are in a Congressionally authorized war with in Iraq. He gave them tactical information and hope to hang in there. They were encouraged to attempt to wait us out without adequate backup available, according to the most recent former President.
Even though Bush has been victorious anyway against the Jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, Clinton and many other Demcrats should be incarcerated for their attempts to help our enemies win.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
GaryD.,
Rudy is as clueless as GWB on foreign policy and has sorrounded himself with the same ideologues that started the war in Iraq. Do you think our world standing is what it is because of our domestic policy? Of course not, there is no difference between Rudy and GWB around the world. Except Rudy has an even bigger ego which will cause the world, with the US at the top of the list, more danger.
Posted by: Seeryer | November 12, 2007, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Imagine what would fall if she walked into a church and said, “trust me”?
Posted by: John Edwards | November 12, 2007, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Do you people believe in magic too? An omen? Comment about her politics or ideology, but seriously how stupid are we here?
Posted by: Jon | November 12, 2007, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Presidential esque
who wrote the copy
She never answered any questions without a script.
Posted by: backtoak | November 12, 2007, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
She’ll save America from free fall just like she saved those flags.
Bush would have let them drop and let his handlers pick ‘em up.
Posted by: actor212 | November 12, 2007, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Remember: If Hillary is the ANSWER….It must have been a STUPID question!!! DON”T VOTE FOR A COMMIE!!!
Posted by: MA2_CIWS | November 12, 2007, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Notice how she just walks away while the flags are still falling… makes me think she has no respect for what they represent. She also didn’t seem to know or care about the fact that these flags need to be destroyed and replaced now that they have touched the ground. Every patriot knows that.
Posted by: Jared | November 12, 2007, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Look at you guys salivating. Clever comments, but c’mon! This is news. And, speaking of plants – way to go rightwingers – I love your comments about conspiracy. Meanwhile, as were all reading this, Rome burns and Bush plays a fiddle, but you won’t see it on the nightly news.
Posted by: Gimme a break | November 12, 2007, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
You mean she didn’t step on them and spit on them and try to burn them?? Or maybe she just does that in private to make sure she gets the backing of the anti-American socilist and others on the left. She sure as all getout doesn’t care about this country.
Posted by: Thomas Austin | November 12, 2007, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
The country’s national symbol falling at Hillary Clinton’s feet. Priceless!
Posted by: amused | November 12, 2007, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Damn war in Iraq! If it wasn’t for that we might have enough money for broader, heavier flag bases. One more item for Hillary to add to her campaign trail wish lists…I mean comprehensive plans.
Posted by: Greg | November 12, 2007, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
I believe history will prove there was a second flagger on the grassy knoll.
Posted by: agile | November 12, 2007, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
I want to know why those flags haven’t been arrested for attacking poor ole hilllbilly hilary!
Posted by: Baffled | November 12, 2007, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
Ominous…..
Posted by: Vet | November 12, 2007, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
AL QAEDA DEFETAED IN IRAQ
DemoCrack Surrender Hopes Shattered
““Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.”
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Decades ago I was the first woman head of a large organization– we worked together, 95% were men; we had few or no problems–
How can she even think of being the president of any organization if she is messing up so many things right now–
that includes herself–
and as if not even thinking–
Maybe if she she will grow up in another decade.
Posted by: SAL | November 12, 2007, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
No feminist in her right mind would ever support a Clinton: down with the banshee and the pervert she’s married to!
Posted by: Oly | November 12, 2007, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
what does that tell you? even the flags don’t like her. Hilary should not run a president
Posted by: chris | November 12, 2007, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
This is a non-story and everyone commenting that this is an ‘omen’ needs to get their head checked.
Posted by: Josh | November 12, 2007, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
I mean Hilary should not run for president
Posted by: chris | November 12, 2007, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Where is your sense of humor
Posted by: chris | November 12, 2007, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
Even the FLAGS won’t stand upright in her prresence!
Posted by: RockLakeGuy | November 12, 2007, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Can you imagine all the clinton crime family staffers that are reading all of this? I wonder if she ever tried to soil the flag? Maybe its flag revenge!
Posted by: Rick | November 12, 2007, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
She is very familiar with desecrating the American Flag, She burned enought of them, maybe the Flags are still mad about her treating something sacred with disrespect, I know a lot of vets will never forget.
If she becomes prez goodby America.
Her husband gave China our technology.
they can now shoot our satellites out of space.
Posted by: Butch | November 12, 2007, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
If the dinosaur media won’t do their job then the flags will cry out!
hehehehehe. . would have loved to see that with me own peepers. . .snicker. . hohohoho. . hahaha. . loud belly laugh
Posted by: Amos | November 12, 2007, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
The libs seem very concerned about our “image.” Would that they be as concerned with our national security?
Posted by: Thomas Shawn | November 12, 2007, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
Here is a quote from another article about the Clinton tactics with the Press. If these people get back into power – this will be just the tip of the iceburg.
It’s called “Clinton’s strategy for crushing the media.”
“Hillary’s aides don’t hesitate to use access as a blunt instrument, as when they killed off a negative GQ story on the campaign by threatening to stop cooperating with a separate Bill Clinton story the magazine had in the works.
Reporters’ jabs and errors are long remembered, and no hour is too odd for an angry phone call.
Clinton aides are especially swift to bypass reporters and complain to top editors.
“They’re frightening!” says one reporter who has covered Clinton. “They don’t see [reporting] as a healthy part of the process. They view this as a ruthless kill-or-be-killed game.”
Posted by: Bill | November 12, 2007, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
If this wasn’t so sad it would be hilarious. I’ll tell you what’s the most scariest thing about this; it’s scrolling down and reading the idiotic and rediculous comments posted so called smart Americans. It’s really scary that we have so many idiots going to a poll to vote. God help America.
Posted by: A Sane Voice | November 12, 2007, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
If you want to avoid the disasters that Clinton, Obama, and Rudy will cause, and all the tax increases that will come along with them, then read up on Ron Paul and support him.
Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate who will make real changes for people in this country, instead of just bowing to the lobbyists and whoever else the other candidates take marching orders from
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
This harkens back to when Hillary was running for Senator and her supporters at a rally were caught spitting on NY State Troopers carrying in the American Flag calling them Guliani nazi’s.
Posted by: NACOHEN | November 12, 2007, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Even the flags can’t stand her, they tried to get away.
Posted by: LC | November 12, 2007, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
National security is for the adults to worry about.
Being a DemoCrat is all about forgetting about todays responsibilities and just indulging yourself in phony pie-in-the-sky humaitarianism. The kind that only others are expected to pay for.
These same “humanitarians” wanted those 50,000 Iraqis a year Saddam was killing to go back into their mass graves and to let him keep making WMDs for his terror clients to deliver to us, just so Bush would have a failure.
But they just keep losing.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
The flag is a powerful symbol to those of us who love this country and defend the constitution. Countless thousands have suffered and died defending it. Was it for nothing?
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Hillary and her ilk are just salivating to hand our sovereignty to Mexico and to erase our borders. She would love to add millions more of Mexico’s poor and sometimemes criminal underclass to the 30 or 40 million illegals already here. She would sell out our beloved country just so the richy-rich can add yet another limo to their 10 car garage.
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Vote RON PAUL in 2008! His flags will stand!
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Before all hell breaks loose in this country, before every city resembles the environs of Tijuana join ALIPAC. Save our State or other organizations fighting against amnesty. Help bring back a sovereign America where laws and our flag actually mean something!
Posted by: NoAmnesty | November 12, 2007, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
How fitting, the flags revolt on Veteran’s Day!
Posted by: RUMADD | November 12, 2007, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Next will the army, navy, marine and airmen officers resign in droves as they did under Bill Clinton after he retreated and surrendered in Mogadushu, Somalia and then refused to nail OBL after the first bombing of the World Trade Center.
Maybe she can finish his job of cutting the military so the budget will balance.
And after his terms of office were up hhow the was prepared for a depression until Pres. Bush put it back on track for prosperity.
Posted by: IRV WEINSOFF | November 12, 2007, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
why is this news?
Posted by: Jake | November 12, 2007, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
The best thing about Hillary getting the nomination would be watching the repubs tank like a flushed toilet. The repubs fail to realize that many repubs are giving her money because she is the only one they might beat, and even her, a probably not. Many of my repub friends have ZERO talking points left and now resort to asking questions like….well er er er er what would you do..er…er…er…er…er. I guess the most distressing thing is if you are a parent and have any female children. I can just feel the self confidence a female child is getting now. Great future in store, EH?????
Posted by: daddy | November 12, 2007, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
Its news when a Clintons string of glaring gaffes aren’t able to be muffled by the LibMedia.
At least it was news when Bush made gaffes.
Posted by: RufusLeeKing | November 12, 2007, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
How fast the” Hungry Crowd of Hillery
Haters” pounce…over nothing….how hungry can you get…..
Posted by: ISABELLE | November 12, 2007, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
The Flag stands for America, it’s values and constitution. Hillary does not stand for the American way of life, it’s ideals, or traditions.
This is a telltale sign. Hope Americans notice.
Posted by: Garth | November 12, 2007, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
Hillary deserves this. First she alienates the black voters withher phony southern drawl, how come you aren’t speaking that way to all of the voters? And then she alienates the illegal alien groups with the yes/no answer on should illegals have drivers license. Up to the states hillbilly? Then why is everybody being told immigration is a Federal matter. Aren’t you running for the head of the Federal Government?
Posted by: IAMVOTINGREPUBLICAN | November 12, 2007, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
Ru Paul is the Mike Gravel of the republican party.
Posted by: steve | November 12, 2007, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
“This is an omen.
America will come crashing down if Hillary is elected President.”
And it hasn’t under Bush?!
Posted by: PA_911dispatcher | November 12, 2007, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
Funny how the worst thing the attackers can do is call Ron Paul, Ru Paul…says a lot about his character…the man has no skeletons to hide. He is an excellent candidate, and I encourage EVERYONE to read more about Ron Paul
Posted by: Brian | November 12, 2007, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
I’ve watched the video several dozen times and if you look closely at the bottom of the curtains you can see Karl Rove’s hand pushing over the first flag.
Posted by: Dan Miljanich | November 12, 2007, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
You right wingers are truly amazing.
You would prefer this screwed up world that Bush has given us to the prosperous time of the 90s?!
What about the 90s was not superior to our times now? We would be blessed to have ANY Democrat back in power.
Posted by: TadAllagash | November 12, 2007, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
Yeah the good ol 90′s…Presidents commiting perjury, Presidents being impeached, your att general frying a bunch of people, your att general sending a young boy back to communism. Your first lady trying to socialize vast portions of the economy. Your president, an unregistered sex offender, having bimbos from coast to coast and even raping a few of them. Yes and this is just the tip of the iceberg..Bush is bad, terrible..and im not a right-winger..I just see the Clinton Crime machine for what they are…
Posted by: Cooper Hightower | November 12, 2007, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Good comment, CynicalPollyanna.
ABC News and Drudge and Politico are the masters of letting dumb news stories (“falling flags” and “Kerry in a space outfit”) into the Mainstream Media,
meanwhile ignoring any REAL news (Cheney’s attack on Civil Liberties, Bush’s attack on Health Care for our Children, Giuliani’s sticking it to 9/11 workers).
You right wingers should walk with your heads down .
Posted by: TadAllagash | November 12, 2007, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
This is news???
Posted by: sandranian | November 12, 2007, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
How much do we as Americans read into things these days? The flags fell on their own, no omens, no predictions – just the simple law of gravity. The media takes this and turns it into a spectacle just like everything else.
Posted by: Christina | November 12, 2007, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
You know what’s really funny? Back in 1998-99, Candidate Clinton, running for Senate, went up against Rick Lazio. She Grilled him. She used a “Smear campaign” and it worked! She used the “Big Money” borrowed from her husband to mount a crushing blow to him both on the trail and in infomercials.
I have been waiting for the day when this came back to her, and these are the days! Don’t let up guys! Don’t back down from her! She is Evil!
Posted by: Tommy Tucker | November 12, 2007, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
To Cooper Hightower:
Do you honestly believe Bush is NOT guilty of Perjury?
What did you think of the current Atty General giving the okay to spy on you without any oversight? I thought civil liberties were important to Repubs?
Or Alberto Gonzales sending thugs to Ashcroft’s bedside?
Seems to me there is a serious double standard in this country. And a lot of hate. Very little thinking. I blame Rush Limbaugh. He has convinced a whole generation of you right wingers that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy.
All we want is a society that thinks about questions concerning health care, diplomacy, strong infrastructure, and the repudiation of a theocracy on American soil.
And for that, you all would wage a second Civil War? Seriously man, it’s just a discussion.
The 90s were a great time. I’d take them over the bloodshed of this awful decade any day.
And don’t say these wars have made us safer. They have radicalized the elements we should have worked to marginalize.
Posted by: TadAllagash | November 12, 2007, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
Of course this is not breaking news, but with the bloggers getting to tell the clinton crime family staffers what they really feel, that is news!
Posted by: Billy | November 12, 2007, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
Did she cry? Were Edwards and Obama at the table with all the cool kids laughing at her? Give me a break with the Poor Hilary B.S.
All the candidates are plastic, pre-packaged, pathological liars. Both sides. People with enough honor and balls, yes balls, about them to do the job can’t stomach this crap. John McCain is playing out the string and Sam Nunn just couldn’t take it anymore. Just put out the Ted Nugent/Rush Limbaugh vs. Sean Penn/Dixie Chicks ticket and sell pay per view.
Posted by: Stan | November 12, 2007, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
Right wingers may not be racist but they certainly are the blind leading the blind. And Democrats may change their minds often but at least they do it with their eyes open. Change is good. It’s a necessity & what keeps this country moving forward. It’s just to bad the rest of the country decided to forgo that idea in the last election.
btw, thanks TadAllagash and good point yourself.
Posted by: CynicalPollyanna | November 12, 2007, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
One thing I find interesting about Ron Paul are his substantial personal investments in precious metals, particularly gold. He profits greatly from the current meltdown of the U.S. dollar and the subsequent increase in gold prices.
If he gets his wish and we go back to the gold standard, then his profits would go from substantial to beyond-all-comprehension.
Are we sure he’s in it for the right reasons?
Posted by: Bob Elliott | November 12, 2007, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
she didnt even know the flags were there, till they fell. Study Jezzabel and her wimpy husband and you will be amazed at the similarities. A sexless power hungry, evil woman
Posted by: ernie keebler | November 12, 2007, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
Bob Elliott,
What are the “right reasons”?
Stan
Posted by: Stan | November 12, 2007, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
TO Christina and sandranian:
EXACTLY.
This is not news. This is what the Media tells us is news.
The flags fell because of gravity.
But the right wing has no love of reason anymore, so their whole pitch to the other 70% of Americans is that everything the Dems say are lies and everything the Media says is biased.
There are some SERIOUS problems the American people face.
We could be discussing that, or we could act like superstitious nitwits and try to read whatever we want into whatever we think we see.
I’m pro-solutions. I’m for the former.
Posted by: TadAllagash | November 12, 2007, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
TadAllagash
Stay on subject..we are talking about Clinton NOT Bush. I am no appolgist for Bush.
**I blame Rush Limbaugh. He has convinced a whole generation of you right wingers that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy.**
There is no left wing conspiracy..but the news is slanted in a left way..90 percent of reporters are Dems so thee you have it
**All we want is a society that thinks about questions concerning health care, diplomacy, strong infrastructure, and the repudiation of a theocracy on American soil.**
It is not the governments responsibilty to worry about health care..control costs yes, and theocracy..are you kidding..we have a godless society that is increasingly lost..so you have no need to worry about a theocracy.
Posted by: Cooper Hightower | November 12, 2007, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
I am out of here, had my laugh for the day. See you clinton crime family staffers at the next gaffe. You need to try harder on the damage control. LOL
Posted by: Bob | November 12, 2007, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Ru Paul agrees with her thighness on the war. Well, when she is in pull out mode. They are both wrong. Ru’s protectionist positions on trade are short sighted and foolish. Don’t get me wrong, I think its great comic relief to see him stammer and stutter in the debates. But the man has no chance of winning the Whitehouse.
Posted by: steve | November 12, 2007, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Will the American voter require 4 flags to fall on there heads before they realize how bad she would be for the country, and in turn, the world?!?
Posted by: Ralph | November 12, 2007, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
It is no surprise that the Clinton camp has little competence with a minor detail such as proper handling of the Flag. They stumble with other simple tasks like open Q&A sessions, and veracity, too. Our national sovereignty means little to these Global Villagistas, so their minions could care less about something that the Boy Scouts would have gotten right. And Clinton is the best of that bunch, as it is.
Posted by: Electron John | November 12, 2007, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
bottom line…this was just a small incident..no omens…a minor blip..no biggie…all politicans are crooks..life is good…grab a diet coke and can of vienna weinees and have a nice day:))))
Posted by: co | November 12, 2007, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
You know, you’re right, CynicalPollyanna, I didn’t mean to imply right wingers are racist. In fact, I took a class taught by George Will in college and I respect the man, though I disagree with him on a lot of things.
But that’s precisely my point. You can’t have a discussion with people anymore. For every George Will there are three Sean Hannity’s and for every Bob Dole there are three Tom Tancredos.
What’s particularly grating is how O’Reilly and them attack George Soros for being a “foreigner money man seeking to influence our politics with his media holdings.”
George Soros?! Really?!
What about Rupert Murdoch?! Now there’s a “foreigner money man seeking to influence our politics with his media holdings.”
But O’Reilly won’t talk about that guy, will he?
It’s a dark time in politics where we focus on gravity-laden flags and not about real issues (War, media consolidation, the environment, and health care).
Shame on ABC and shame on Politico.
Posted by: TadAllagash | November 12, 2007, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
When George Bush won in 2004 by one and a half percentage points – he called it a mandate.
Current poll results show Hillary 4 points ahead of Rudy.
Rudy is however, two marriages ahead of Hillary.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Well, pretty typical of Democrats to have such blatant disdain for the flag. At least they didn’t burn them…
Posted by: Phil McCracken | November 12, 2007, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
This is an Omen. Honestly! How could this happen? How? To have the American Flag fall beside you is no accident. Especially on national television and during “Veterans Day”. It wasn’t just one flag, it was three! She knew this was bad and she will refuse to comment on it because she knows this negative publicity is terrible for her campaign. America should see this as an “Omen”. Don’t vote for her, she will cause harm to our soldiers!!
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
it’s what 10 seconds or less? Not even long enough for a gaffe. Gimmie a break! It’s a non story repubs. Let it go.
Posted by: don | November 12, 2007, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
This is news? This is an omen? Are you all serious? What a bunch of dummies. You have nothing better to do than contemplate the meaning of flags falling down? I’ve seen this happen at military ceremonies . . . it’s an accident lamebrains!
Posted by: jalub carrey | November 12, 2007, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
On 9-11-01, just months into his first term, the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history occurred on Bush’s watch (after he essentially ignored the warnings). This was definitely a sign of Bush’s failed Presidency to come.
Posted by: TC | November 12, 2007, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
The falling flags thing is funny, but some of these comments betray a degree of spin hypnosis.
For those of you complaining about “Cheney’s attack on our civil liberties”: Yes, if you’re expecting a phone call from Osama, Cheney’s really making things hard for you, and we should be SOOOO ashamed of him for trying to intercept calls from terrorists. Bush’s attack on health car for our children: When did 25-year-olds with an income of $80K become “children?” And where in the Constitution does it say it’s government’s job to pay for this stuff anyway? Did you moveon types forget it was a Republican Congress that set up S-Chip, that the program’s in place, and Dubya’s just seeing to it that the program doesn’t overreach its stated purpose? Are you guys that obsessed with turning America into a nanny state that you’ll trash a wartime President for not forgetting that 25-year-olds are not kids?
Now for the Clinton Kool-ade drinkers who think the Wicked Witch of the Left has moral superiority regarding Iraq. First, she voted to go in. If you want to try that stupid line about her being tricked, remember Bush based his decision partly on Clinton-era intelligence, so if anyone was lying, it was Der Schlickmeister. (Big surprise there, huh? Or does that depend on “What the definition of ‘is’ is?”) If you really want to keep drinking the Clinton Kool-ade, you can find her agreeing with pretty much any point of view, she’s assumed more positions than a contortionists’ convention.
Now, for the “illegal war” types. President Bush went through Congress, gave the UN a chance to get their act together, and provided more than appropriate warning to your buddy Saddam Hussein. Mr. Hussein had defied numerous UN resolutions, and was defying the enforcement of the Kurdistan no fly zone, firing on our planes during the Clinton administration, which resulted in us having the image in the world you jokers apparently want the US to have, which was also set in place by his brilliant “Pull out of Mogadishu and al-Qaeda will ieave us alone”, which is the image of a weak-willed, capitulating, cut-and-run paper tiger. By international law, when a sovereign state takes aggressive action against another sovereign state’s military assets, that constitutes a declaration of war. I know how much you lefties hate it when a Republican President applies international law, but that’s what GWB did.
Speaking of Clinton and illegal invasions, when are you victory in Iraq protestors going to start clamoring for our troops to come home from the former Yugoslavia? Slick Willy went in there without approval by Congress, and our troops are still there. Oh, I forgot, Clinton’s a Democrat, so he’s free from the badgering from the anti-military left. To take it a step further, we’ve had troops in South Korea since the end of the Korean War.
Finally, you Ron Paul folks. When you’re ready to abandon your political cult leader and leave 18th-century international policy and conspiracy theories behind, check out the real Republican who can beat the Wicked Witch of the Left at fred08.com.
Posted by: Gary Goodman | November 12, 2007, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
It must have been the vast right wing conspiracy. Disgusting and vile creature
Posted by: nrabp | November 12, 2007, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Absolutely no terrorist attacks happened during entire presidency of “Billy Boy” Clinton. Bill had no intelligence of “911″ as well. Read your history books ladies and gentlemen. It’s all there in black and white. You don’t need to take what is said by “fact nazis” as truth. It’s an Omen! It’s an Omen!! It’s an Omen!!!
Oh, by the way, “Billy Boys” are condoms sold in Europe. Europeans started calling Bill this after his affair with Monica.
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Who cares, it is just a flag. You simpleton ‘patriots’ are all a bunch of suckers. Giving your loyalty to a country? How stupid is that, the government will only abuse you.
Citizenship is but a business relationship anyway. I’m here in the USA because it is profitable, if I can make more money with a similar lifestyle elsewhere, I’ll leave.
When the government tells me what I can ingest and what I can do to my own body, I just don’t care about that government or it’s laws beyond their ability to punish me.
Posted by: FatSean | November 12, 2007, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
They may have come down abruptly, but those flags were supposed to lie at her feet so she could wipe her shoes on them.
Posted by: AaronZ | November 12, 2007, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
HRC said the base’s weren’t weighted.. just like everything else from the Demorats.. they want our base to be weighted in favor of Demorats.. WHATS your position on Illegal’s getting NY drivers licence Hill?
Posted by: Richard | November 12, 2007, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Those flags and bases were most likely MDE IN CHINA – so Hillary has a beef with her best source of illegal fundraising.
Poetic justice?
;-)
Posted by: dmc | November 12, 2007, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Gee Gary, those of us complaining about “Cheney’s attack on our civil liberties” just happen to care about this little numbe, called the Fourth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” No one is against listening in on terrorists – but it’s you “get government off our backs” people who want to gut the Constitution – cause the warrants might give you paper cuts that are the problem.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
A few more inconvenient truths for those of you who don’t know how to check the facts: Under President Bush, we’re continuing to add new jobs to the economy, and we continue to have lower unemployment than we ever had under Slick Willy. Also, even though it was conveniently swept under the rug, the economy was stagnant under Clinton until the Republicans won the House in 1994. Alan Greenspan slowed down the impending recession which started in 1999, and that was on Clinton’s watch, for those of you who can’t remember recent history. Bush inherited Clinton’s mess, including the weakened military and intelligence services, as well as the image generated by Billyboy’s weak/nonexistent responses to Mogadishu, the Khobar Towers bombing, the Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings, the first WTC attack, and the USS Cole. He’s done a lot better job than Slick Willy ever thought of doing, no matter how hard most of the American media keeps inviting us to believe otherwise.
Posted by: Gary Goodman | November 12, 2007, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
What can I say? I just don’t like Hillary.
Posted by: The American Flag | November 12, 2007, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
I was present for the 50th Commemoration of D-day in Normandy, France at Omaha Beach where thousands of American soldiers lost their lives during world war II. Hillary had absolutely no time to talk to soldiers. Many of my friends commented about this and thought that she was not the “First Lady” that they expected. She was not the person that they saw on television. She was too busy writing her memiors and seemed very arrogant. If you think that she would make a good president, you better think again. She is selfish, arrogant and foolish.
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
Hillary is the future and you right wingers will be shut up once and for all in the new “village.”
Go girl go!
Posted by: EJF | November 12, 2007, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
You Idiots… The flag fell behind her obviously because of the man behind her.. And, she helped saving the flags from falling over, how about that for symbolization.
Posted by: Sandra | November 12, 2007, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
This poor woman. She’s had so much strife in her life. Can’t we just leave her alone so that she can retire in peace.
Those darn Republicans can say anything nice about Mrs. Clinton or Billy.
Posted by: BB | November 12, 2007, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Hey dmc,
There was more domestic wiretapping under Clinton I than is now.
4th Amendment does NOT APPLY TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY! If a person inside the country is talking to a person outside this country about blowing up shopping malls this holiday season, don’t you think we should know about it? Especially when the person on the other end has publicly called for the distruction of our country?
You post here about your right to speech and 4th Amendment Search & seizure rights being abridged? Are you mental? If that was the case, you couldn’t post & you would be in jail! Just try that with Chavez, he would just dissapear you! That is not happening here. You need a life.
Posted by: Corwin | November 12, 2007, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Gee Gary – take a look at actual facts. Clinton inherited an unemployment rate of 7.49% and took it down each year until it was 3.97%. Under G.Ws – it went up.
Under G.W. – American savings rates hit negative territory for the first time since the great depression. There has been no growth in real wages – the stock market – and thus your IRA – is about where it was when Bush took office. We are less safe than we were – the dollar is so weak it could foster trade wars and we are now the nation that tortures people – if it seems like it just might be useful.
If you can sell George Bush to people – just think what you could do with used cars.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
They must be male flags and playing ‘gotcha’.
Posted by: Steve Chew | November 12, 2007, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
When progressives finally take over, all these right wing subversives should be rounded up and shut up. Then we can get on with making America a true citizen of the world and stop the rape of the world’s resources to maintain the lifestyles of a few million rich people. Why should some people have two or three or more cars and TVs? Private autos should be outlawed to save the environment and then public transportation will be efficient.
Health care must be free for everyone and clinics for the rich must be shut down so everyone has equal access to health care. And rent and basic necessities should be free to all. No one should be homeless when the rich have thousands of square feet in their mansions. Tax the rich and make them help the poor.
Guns should be illegal too and people who can’t get on board to change the country should be re-educated at special schools until they can see the vision that needs to be learned.
America can be better and we must not let the rich, gun toting, private property, right wingers stand in the way of the future.
This election is clearly a case of the ends should justify the means.
Posted by: EJF | November 12, 2007, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm
No doubt flag-falling is simply another product of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”…..(although I must admit I don’t remember it being brought up at any of the meetings).
Posted by: semkins | November 12, 2007, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
I only know one liberal that will vote for shillary. Interesting, since I live in the fascist leftwingnut state of Washington. Personally, I don’t think she has a prayer regardless of who the Republican candidate winds up being. Go Fred!
Posted by: Greg Dodgin | November 12, 2007, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
I believe what “EJF” is really trying to say is that he is the “Step Father” of Communism. Good one Vladimir! Good one Yuri! Now go stand in a breadline to get your cheese.
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
Typical male arrogance – I can assure you that under Hillary all women will have a voice in the running of this country and wars will never be allowed to happen. Violence has never solved anything nor fed anyone.
families will never have to suffer with disabled children. Every pregnancy can be ended long before the third trimester.
Posted by: EJF | November 12, 2007, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
“An omen of possible future consequences? Maybe sweeping an unqualified individual into power is not such a great idea after all?”
gee that’s what i was thinking about the dingus in office now. who would have ever thought electing a cheerleader/failed oil and baseball team owner/pupper governor would have been such a terrible choice?
Posted by: Yer Arsehole | November 12, 2007, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
Gosh Golly Corwin – I guess another thing that gets rendered “non-operational” or “quaint” under you folks is that part of the Declaration of Independence that states that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights – not some men – all men. And you just plain get born with those rights You don’t get them just because you are lucky enough to live in an upscale zip code.
The gutless weenies of the right don’t have the courage to live under the constitution and to embrace real human rights. A sysmtem we chose – not because it was the safest – or easiest – but because it was the best, and the noblest. But when the going gets a little rough – the right wing crowd is the first to throw in the towel – and call in the inquisitor. Read the Constitution and maybe even grow a backbone.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
I can see that you have lived a very sheltered life. watch “Lake of Fire” and then we will talk about abortion. You obviously never got the “War Speech” growing up, so, I’ll be specific. “There will always be war”. When have women ever been silenced? You couldn’t shut a woman up if you wanted to. (Smile) Give me a break lady. Sometimes in life, “Balance”, actually means having “Intelligence” and “Common Sense”. Now, see yourself to the door.
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Yes, all men are created equal, but when dealing with people who, by all THEIR statements are trying to kill all of us and take over our civilization, they have given up their “rights”. They don’t respect our MOST BASIC RIGHT OF LIFE!
In 1944 German spies came here to kill as many of us as possible. According to the world law (then and now) when they were found, they were hanged.
When these people decide to follow simple “world law” like, I don’t know, not killing inoccent women & children to try to take over the world, I would be happy to recognize their liberties.
Until they get on board and stop the 7th century mindset, they have no “rights”
Posted by: Corwin | November 12, 2007, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
A. She helped “save” the flags…not “saving”. Get your tenses straight woman!
B. Put a period after “falling over”. You don’t know it, but you’ve come to the end of a sentence.
C. It’s “symbolism” not “symbolization”. I have no idea what “symbolization” is, but it sounds painful.
There now. I feel much better. Thanks.
Posted by: jy | November 12, 2007, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE RON PAUL.
RON PAUL IS WINNING NEARLY ALL OF THE STRAW POLLS ACROSS THE USA. RON PAUL WILL BRING OUR TROOPS HOMES TO PROTECT US WHERE IT COUNTS THE MOST — OUR BORDERS. RON PAUL WILL RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION. RON PAUL WILL BEGIN TO GET RID OF CORRUPTION IN THE US GOVERNMENT ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Posted by: JIM | November 12, 2007, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm
Sounds like a sign to me.
Posted by: RDM | November 12, 2007, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm
All kinds of people are out there who intend to kill. Our prisons are filled with such people. But we decided a long time ago – that even the worst people will be accorded basic human rights. If you catch one of those pathetic Columbine wannabees – a 16 year old with a plan and a rifle – under our system – you don’t just throw him in Gitmo. You don’t just have rights because you behave. and conform to all our laws. Who on Wall Street would have any rights if that were the case. You have rights because you are a human being. It’s right there in the Declaration of Independence. Great stuff really.
We tried the system you describe – their was a King back then – made things pretty simple. But it sucked. We decided we could do better.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
When I was young we never saw flags falling but lately the flags have been behaving oddly; scientists believe that this could be another crisis caused by global warming.
The battle against flag falling is the most important battle that man has ever enjoined and we must demand that our politicians heed our cries and “invest” trillions of our taxpayer dollars in Al Gore’s latest venture into re-defining how we fly flags.
Thankfully, our children are being properly trained by their government schools concerning the seriousness of the threat of flag falling. We must of course listen to the wisdom of our children on this vital issue facing all of humanity!
Posted by: B Frykman | November 12, 2007, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
The flags fell in protest of the socialist country Hillary would create if she is elected. Indeed, all of America as we know it will come crashing down.
Posted by: Don | November 12, 2007, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
God knows!
Posted by: gster | November 12, 2007, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
Can anyone explain to my why Hillary no longer uses her maiden name? Back when she was First Lady and as Senator, she made a point to always include her maiden name. Now that she is running for the Presidency, she has left it out. Can anyone explain this?
Posted by: tommy tucker | November 12, 2007, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
Gee Barry, I couldn’t help but notice that the Fourth Amendment had that inconvenient word “unreasonable” word in it. Call me a right-wing nut job if you want to, but I’m pretty sure that a trail of evidence that connects a person with a terrorist organization makes search and seizure reasonable (unless, of course, there’s a Republican President). And yes, I’m part of the small government crowd, but I believe in government doing things it’s supposed to do Constitutionally, such as law enforcement, maintaining the military including intelligence, and infrastructure. Reasonable search and seizure is not in violation of the Fourth Amendment, so you lefties who want to derail the War on Terror so you can pin it on Bush and Cheney need to find another way to defeat your own country in time of war.
Posted by: Gary Goodman | November 12, 2007, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
Oh my god, people, when did ABC become the next Fox News Network?? You are fools with nothing better to do than act as armchair activists on blogs that next to nobody reads. I want to digg this just to bury it for the idiocy it is. If you want to attack a politician, attack their policies and statements, don’t attempt to wax philosophical about accidents that occur in their presence! Geez, get a life!
Posted by: pissed-off | November 12, 2007, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
Honestly, people think that because flags fell over that she is evil? Honestly, and do you also think the world is flat, the earth is the center of the universe and that a solor eclipse signifys bad omens too?
If you said yes, and you’re reading this on the internet then you’ve thrown generations of intelligence away.
Posted by: KevinM | November 12, 2007, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
It is called irony, KevinM.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
CLINTON/PAUL ’08
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 12, 2007, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
I really don’t like Clinton, but this story is just reaching.
Posted by: Christine | November 12, 2007, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm
Dennis and his UFO, and now this! What’s happening, people?!! I mean, even Edgar Cayce predicted this, didn’t he? After all, he was a medium. No wait, I think he actually was an extra large.
Posted by: Globe L. Whining | November 12, 2007, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
So gee Gary, who decides what is reasonable? Wouldn’t that be the courts? That is the system we use in democracies. Again, try to wrap your head around this – no one has a problem with going after bad guys. What is a problem however, is having someone claim to be all powerful and all seeing – and in no need of oversight. Warrantless wiretaps is the way outfits like the Stasi in East Germany operated. We here in this country found a better way.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Hey Barry Nolan,
Nice cherry picking the “NewsMax” article about Hillary’s accomplishments. You failed to mention the “statistics” or poll results you quote came from her spinmeister Howard Wolfson, and the “accomplishments” you cited came from Dick Morris’ & Eileen McGann’s book “Condi VS Hillary”. None of these were reported as “complimentary”. Here is the entire list:
• Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site
• Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month
• Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor
• Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall
• Name courthouse after James L. Watson
• Name post office after John A. O’Shea
• Designate August 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day
• Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day
• Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death
• Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship
• Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship
• Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program
• Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda
• Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death
• Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty
Only five of Clinton’s bills could be described “substantive”, say Morris and McGann:
• Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11
• Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
• Assist landmine victims in other countries
• Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care
• Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System
“Despite the paltry record, claims about Clinton’s stellar Senate performance persist.”
Yes Barry, her accomplishments are absoluetly stunning. Oh, and by the way, she never wrote or sponsored of these actions. She just supported them.
She has yet to author any legislation.
Yet inspite of this vast experience, she is eminently qualified to be the president.
Posted by: Reggie | November 12, 2007, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
Hillary has a plan to replace the American Flag with something “better” for the common good of all.
Posted by: Mrs Ross | November 12, 2007, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
Raise taxes (put small businesses out of business again).
Socialize medicine (ration medicine to the wealthy and elected class).
Pull our troops out of Mid East (Enable the Islamic Terrorists… oooopps “criminals”)
Trample on the American Flag (It is the “Progressive” Way!)!
What a lady!!!
Posted by: Howard Ino | November 12, 2007, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm
I remember when the Clintons were in the
White House and suddenly the Military Guards on duty were told to wear civilian suits..They did..They ended up
serving inside the White House “Tea” to the Clinton’s guests. When asked why the Military Personnel were wearing civilian clothes, Chelsea spoke up, saying, “My parents don’t like the Military and neither do I.” Remember?
Posted by: Bonnie H. H. | November 12, 2007, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
Well gee Reggie, how about this from the conservative Forbes Magazine: “As an aide and adviser to her husband the governor, Clinton became involved in education and health care issues in Arkansas. Her intelligence, discipline and rigor complemented his charisma and brilliance.”
Or the Gallup poll:
“Americans are slightly more likely to say Clinton has the personality and leadership qualities needed in a president than to say they agree with her on the issues, though a majority of Americans say both statements are true. Giuliani and Obama receive nearly the same ratings as Clinton on both dimensions.”
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
You are neither a student nor a scholar of the Constitution. I am willing to take you to class on this subject anytime. And do some research on your unemployment statistics. 3.97% under Clinton was for the month of April 2000 only and 9 months later was at 5.7% You never show the complete picture just like your NewsMax article posting. Bush’s unemployment numbers average 5.06% over 7 years. Clinton was 6.15%. But don’t take my word for it. The Dept. of Labor is the keeper of those statistics.
Posted by: reggie | November 12, 2007, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
Bill was getting randy with some intern backstage, and knock over the flags. It was not an omen.
Thanks for your support,
Mrs. Bill Clinton
Posted by: HerthighnessHerself | November 12, 2007, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
Barry,
You keep citing Hillary supporters who are either featured or quoted in a conservative article or magazine. Polls and quotes from her staunchest supporters won’t get her elected nor qualify her for the presidency. And what does her involvement in education and health care issues in Arkansas have to do with 2008? Nothing! Arkansas is still at the bottom of the heap in health care and education.
Posted by: reggie | November 12, 2007, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm
Barry Nolan-you rant allot. Hush. You are coming across as just more liberal ooze and entertainment that has gotten so old the dinosaur has yet to defecate on it. You must have been so disappointed Bush won the last two elections. I can imagine your pain. I don’t know how I would react either if Bush DID NOT WIN. To me, that would have been a very painful thing. (I do NOT regret my twice voting for him) But win he did–fair and square. This up coming Hillary show you must now cling to help you try to find some solace and affirmation that you voted correctly against Bush. Her Highness may win the election next year….BUT YOU BETTER BE PREPARED FOR A MIGHTY SHORT LIVED AFTERGLOW.
Many of us trying to warn others about who the “progressives” are and their thinking how much they represent the future and how they are all so convinced how much they can make the world such a better place to live are in for the ultimate psychotic news flash of reality the likes of which they are unable to currently fathom.
Posted by: gesurvivor | November 12, 2007, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm
It is Bush’s fault Hillary will never be President.
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 12, 2007, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
As a matter of fact, I guess I actually do feel threatened by a woman president….why WOULDN’T OR SHOULDN’T I be threatened by Hillary boarding Air Force One….commanding men who are still required to register for the civil service and she never had too. That does scare me. It’s wrong.
Posted by: gesurvivor | November 12, 2007, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm
Note how Clinton inherits a very high unemployment rate – thanks to Bush Sr. (remember – “it’s the economy stupid!”)and the rate goes down every year of Clinton’s presidency.
Bush inherits a low unemployment rate and a balanced budget – and then – well – we know the rest.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Hillary could have stopped one or two of them from falling but just stood there and pointed. Wow! What a woman of action.
Posted by: Caren | November 12, 2007, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
The flags fell in protest of the socialist country Hillary would create if she is elected. Indeed, all of America as we know it will come crashing down.
France – in the USA.
Posted by: Don | November 12, 2007, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm
Barry,
You just don’t get it. You threw out the 3.97% and it isn’t on the chart. Again do the research. Compute the averages. Do the math. Strongest economy was not under Clinton’s watch. Economics is not another one of your strengths, neither is the Constitution.
Posted by: reggie | November 12, 2007, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm
You know, as I read all these people saying “the flags falling are an omen,” I think to myself, “more bad things have been done in the past 8 years in the name of those flags than in nay time since Vietnam”. They no longer symbolize “freedom” for one thing, they symbolize restricted privacy and eavesdropping. When Republicans get up in arms because Hillary wants to build a museum about the Woodstock Music Festival, its time they admitted their irrelevancy and desperation. Planted questions are one thing (another reason I prefer Obama), but this is ridiculous. Smarten up, America. DO NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN IN ’08!
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
People grow up. This is a non-issue at all. There are just way too many nincompoops in this land. YOu really deserve to have George Bush as President and I don’t feel sorry for most of you.
Posted by: swissdiver | November 12, 2007, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
Yes, America will continue to crash if she is elected. Her slogan should be “Stay The Course: Hillary ’08″. She is a moderate Republican and I don’t understand why the loony lock stepping NeoCons refer to her as a socialist when she is running on virtually the same platform as Giuliani.
Posted by: John Reagan | November 12, 2007, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm
If you want to sell the presidency and the white house to the the Chinese who are buying Hillary with bogus donations – have it. Learn to speak Chinese first though.
Posted by: Darrel | November 12, 2007, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm
Oh, and Reggie, the Constitution was written over 200 years ago, back when slavery was still a “happenin’ thing”.
No one’s listening to you anymore…the only reason all these Republicans even FOUND this page is because it was linked from Drudge.
We’re sick of your self-righteousness, phony patriotism, fake outrage, and moral elitism. You will be crushed in a year’s time. Crushed into a fine powder, and snorted…by Democrats.
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm
Of course, no one there knows proper flag etiquette. I quote “Sec. 8. – Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.”
The flag should have been taken off the pole and cleaned seeing as how it did touch the floor.
Posted by: Tim | November 12, 2007, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
Even the flag can’t stand to be around Hillary the bull……………….
Posted by: Roy | November 12, 2007, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
Fine, Retreat to the superpower border of Switzerland. We will run to the rescue of W. Europe, when it is again threatened.
Posted by: Steve | November 12, 2007, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Hillary and her husband are professional grifters, and traitors to this country. Dump them fast – do not pass go. Do it yesterday!! Bob in Maine
Posted by: Bob Russell | November 12, 2007, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
Hey Steve, how many times are you gonna rewrite the same question? We got it the first time.
Posted by: Jim | November 12, 2007, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
If Hillary and her “experts” struggle improperly with an AMERICAN FLAG touching or falling to the ground…. What happens when our country is attacked? Would she know it?
RETIRE THE FLAG HILLARY! Properly.
And She wants to be President?
The voters who might elect this wretch are a disgrace.
Posted by: Navigator7 | November 12, 2007, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
If the flags fall everyday between now and election day, maybe we can credit it to the ghosts of dead veterans trying to warn us. But look at all the day when the flags didn’t fall. Have the dead veterans just now realized she’s a candidate? Will they be aware of it tomorrow?
This might be an issue best credited to simple GRAVITY.
Posted by: BJ | November 12, 2007, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
Bush made the ghost of veterans past, just now, realize that Hillary is unacceptable.
Bush has wrecked this life and the hereafter.
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 12, 2007, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
Dear Reggie;
You simply have it wrong. Your link is to information about unemployment insurance. A different thing altogether.
Facts are stubborn things Reggie. They won’t go away simply because you don’t like them. And your pretense of competence on the subject matter – when you clearly don’t know what your are talking about – seems to be typical of those who support this administration.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
Wouldn’t want to date her – but the hate that people on this page exhibit for an administration where there was relative peace, safety and prosperity – is hard to fathom.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm
Not an omen.
Probably not scripted.
This is what happens when there is no script for Hillary. I can’t imagine anyone could handle that scene with grace and poise. Tough luck, Hillary. “Fled the scene?” Give me a break. That is the mainstream media at their best. Really, this is not an issue.
The issues are:
1) WHERE DID THEY GET ALL THAT MONEY TO DONATE TO HILLARY?
2) IF IT’S NOT ABOUT BEING A WOMAN, WHY IS THE GENDER CARD PLAYED SO OFTEN, HILLARY?
3) DOES SOME 90-YR-OLD WOMAN WHO SUPPOSEDLY DOESN’T WANT TO DIE UNTIL THERE’S A WOMAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE MAKE YOU QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT?
4) WHY IS HILLARY HIDING BEHIND BILL’S PRESIDENTIAL ORDER WITH RESPECT TO HER COMMUNICATIONS AS FIRST LADY? IF BEING FORMER FIRST LADY MAKES HER QUALIFIED TO BE CinC, SHOULDN’T WE GET TO SEE THE RECORDS?
5) WHY DID HILLARY’S “STAFF” PLANT SOFTBALL QUESTIONS AMONG TARGET AUDIENCE MEMBERS, AND WHO REALLY BELIEVES HILLARY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE?
6) IS TIM RUSSERT REALLY PART OF THIS VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY, OR IS HILLARY UNIQUELY UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT, AND IT BECAME CLEAR WHEN THE FIRST UNSCRIPTED QUESTION CAME HER WAY?
Just wondering…
Posted by: Mike Oxlong | November 12, 2007, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm
Barry you are lying, and Bush made you lie.
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 12, 2007, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm
Just one point did anyone see that it was in waterloo,IA where this happened wonder if it just means the good old US OF A has meet it’s waterloo and gave up to what is to be done to it.
Posted by: just me | November 12, 2007, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
Well Mike, I hope the Republican presidential candidate agrees with you 100% and runs on the issues you raise. Because what the vast majority of Americans care about are Iraq, the economy and health care and the Republicans will simply get their heads handed to them in the 2008 elections.
Posted by: Barry Nolan | November 12, 2007, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm
“chaos ensued”? “Crashing”? “controlled panic”?
I just saw the video. There was no chaos. The flags did not crash around Clinton. There was no panic.
What the heck are you trying to pull by this exaggeration? If you want to know why people don’t trust the media, look in the mirror.
Posted by: Jim C. | November 12, 2007, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm
I will say this I know the good sides of health care in this fine country.
I saw how my mom was cared for when she was under MY dad’s insurance was A 1 care until she went threw the million dollar mark and was no longer cared for under dad’s then she got the state care insurance where she became a number just enough to keep her alive and money coming in to the home she was in.
MY dad I would have lost to many times over if he did not have A 1 insurance left over from his retirement hell this year alone he has had pace maker and two heart operations that if he had to wait for state approval well I would be taking flowers to moms and his grave. I know this because we have friend who come to the us for medial care from Canada and Sweden all the time because of the long waiting lines even if can get a cancer in level one most take till it is level three till treatment starts. In both countries he would be too old to get those operations that saved his life this year so what can I say but GOD BLESS THE USA. OH and fear those that want to make changes just to look like or doing something for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: just me | November 13, 2007, 12:23 am 12:23 am
Barry loves all democrats and socialist programs. Barry loves her thighness, the breck girl, plugs, “1/2 a senator sandwich” (Ted Kennedy is the other half… look it up), an UFO buff, Barry Obama, and Mike Gravel. Embrace your socialism, Barry. Bush made you a leftist.
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 13, 2007, 12:28 am 12:28 am
Flags not properly weighted?
Lead is required to weight flags properly.
Lead has been outlawed by left wing loonies,
and it causes GLOBAL WARMING giving
big Al Gore.
Posted by: Ronaldo | November 13, 2007, 12:30 am 12:30 am
I have been reading this all day, and the intolerance of the left is dumbfounding. For seven years, Bush has been called Hitler, a dictator, a war criminal and worse. He has been called a liar, a crook, and unpatriotic. After years of this crap day in and day out, the left finally gets a taste. Sure Hillary did not knock down the flags. Frankly, we will never know why they fell, but I can understand the jokes, and appreciation of irony on this blog. For all you democrats, who protest, deal with it. Politics is a contact sport and for the last years you all have pushed the boundaries of political discourse. Live it. Love it. And in Bill Clinton’s case fondle it. Peace!
Posted by: Steve | November 13, 2007, 1:00 am 1:00 am
Yeah, well Bush is bad!!!
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 13, 2007, 1:51 am 1:51 am
A Disturbing Omen for Hillary Clinton
Strange things happen all the time, but the ones we remember are the ones that symbolize things we already suspect. For example, Hillary Clinton had a problem with falling flags at a Veteran’s Day weekend press conference. The obvious interpretation…
Posted by: Conservative Cat | November 13, 2007, 2:52 am 2:52 am
Songs, notwithstanding, Bush is really bad. I promise. ABC tells me all the time.
Posted by: Wackolibhack | November 13, 2007, 3:09 am 3:09 am
Clinton used Veterans Day to trot out a package of assistance programs for veterans, and to tout the endorsement she’s gotten from a committee of more than 1,200 veterans.
“She has been a terrific friend of the military,” said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. “She has been a terrific friend of veterans.”
Posted by: Steve J. | November 13, 2007, 3:29 am 3:29 am
Strongest economy was not under Clinton’s watch.
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Oh yes it was, at least according to Alan Greenspan.
Posted by: Steve J. | November 13, 2007, 3:32 am 3:32 am
“CLINTON USED VETERANDS DAY.” Used it? Really?
Posted by: Steve | November 13, 2007, 3:45 am 3:45 am
STEVE -
Who was the clown who headed Bush’s VA?
Posted by: Steve J. | November 13, 2007, 3:47 am 3:47 am
Clinton’s package would increase educational benefits, housing assistance and job training for veterans. While veterans currently get preferences for government jobs, Clinton said she would expand that to contractors who work for the government.
“If they are being paid with taxpayer dollars, they should also hire veterans,” said Clinton.
Posted by: Steve J. | November 13, 2007, 3:49 am 3:49 am
The president is mearly a figurehead installed by the power elite/mega corporations. Don’t fall into the trap of the false left/right paradigm, they are running game on us.
Posted by: Angus MacPherson | November 13, 2007, 4:02 am 4:02 am
Of course, this reminds me of the ageless philosophical question:
If a flag falls in a Hillary Clinton press conference, and only CNN is there to hear it, does it make the news?
Posted by: Gary | November 13, 2007, 6:30 am 6:30 am
boB,
Flags that briefly touch the ground do not need to be burned. This is a fallacy. Only when a flag is no longer suitable for display does it need to be burned or otherwise respectfully retired.
Posted by: Charlie | November 13, 2007, 6:42 am 6:42 am
The flags did not come “crashing down”..
They fell over, and were set up right with the help of Hillary’s associates, and she remarked that the bases were not strong enough, and she left quietly.
The Hillary Haters cannot leave her alone. Everything she does is fodder for the liar mongers.
She will be the next President of the United States, so get over it! She will
be the best leader of the free world in this century!
Posted by: GRANDMA | November 13, 2007, 7:07 am 7:07 am
Hillary got hit by flags and it sounds like “grandma” got run over by a reindeer. . . .
The next president. . hohoho. . .I can’t believe there is that many crazies in the USA to vote that demented witch in!
Posted by: amos | November 13, 2007, 7:18 am 7:18 am
It figures.
Posted by: LongT | November 13, 2007, 7:22 am 7:22 am
Maybe it means the end of american greed if she became president
Posted by: human | November 13, 2007, 7:47 am 7:47 am
Lets not forgetthat in the 2000 election that bush supposedly lost,there were absentee ballots from the military that the dems fought to disallow,also 2 million in California,she may have too or three 60′s throwback generals backing her,but that is so they can cover for their inept leadership while Clinton was in office.
Posted by: mike | November 13, 2007, 8:35 am 8:35 am
This current crop of pinheads running for President is only enhanced by incidents like this. Chuck Hagel, the McCain of the plains had his picture fall from the wall of the press club when he announced he would not run for re-election. Not that he could have won as dog catcher in Nebraska but in Hillary’s case, you could almost visualize the ghosts of soldiers lining up to kick the flag over in protest of this 60′s socialist radical becoming President. Never in history has the Democratic party put forth such a pathetic list of candidates for office. The republicans are marginally better and the good choices will likely be beat to pulp by the dirt road media. Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson would be the best choices and Bloomberg would be the pinnacle of disaster to let this New York Prima Donna at the helm. To be sure, the fireworks have not even begun, let the games begin.
Posted by: Red Ruffansore | November 13, 2007, 8:51 am 8:51 am
So much for the campaign icon… Instead of the Marines posting Old Glory on Iwo Jima, Hillary’s campaign will have the picture of Hillary standing helpless while Old Glory comes tumbling down. Hillary would not have had to worry about the flags if she had a color guard. We’ll chalk it up to inexperience.
Posted by: Sean O'Brien | November 13, 2007, 9:29 am 9:29 am
When I was young we never saw flags falling but lately the flags have been behaving oddly; scientists believe that this could be another crisis caused by global warming.
The battle against flag falling is the most important battle that man has ever enjoined and we must demand that our politicians heed our cries and “invest” trillions of our taxpayer dollars in Al Gore’s latest venture into re-defining how we fly flags.
Thankfully, our children are being properly trained by their government schools concerning the seriousness of the threat of flag falling. We must of course listen to the wisdom of our children on this vital issue facing all of humanity!
Posted by: B Frykman | November 13, 2007, 9:34 am 9:34 am
A sign of things to come if she is elected?,..maybe!. But lets be careful if The Clinton War Machine gets wise to this, then you can expect this kind of thing being a planned dirty trick against their enemies. Lets see we have had Flies, Flags what next as an omen I wonder.
Posted by: TimeOut | November 13, 2007, 9:46 am 9:46 am
Most are missing the point. This was a staged event showing Hillary rushing to keep the falling flags from touching the floor. The video doubtless shows how it was a setup, and is being witheld until her hollywood friends can properly edit it. Remember Billy arranging rocks on Normandy beach in the form of a cross, when rocks are not found on that beach. The rocks were “planted” there for a photo op. This was staged as well but perhaps not rehearsed well enough, something went amiss.
Posted by: Richard | November 13, 2007, 9:57 am 9:57 am
They didn’t even have the decency to stand the one flag back up.
Posted by: mike | November 13, 2007, 10:21 am 10:21 am
Definitely a sign from God!
Posted by: John | November 13, 2007, 11:13 am 11:13 am
I’d rather see these flags fall publicly then the thousands of flags on hidden military coffins.
Posted by: leo | November 13, 2007, 11:35 am 11:35 am
This reminds me of when that chunk of marble or whatever it was nearly hit the Supreme Court justices.
Posted by: Keith | November 13, 2007, 11:40 am 11:40 am
What a waste of air time!
A few flags topple over and you make a big deal about it. Is network news that desperate it has to run crap like this??
Are you going to follow her into the washroom next??!!
Yeesh…
Posted by: IanToronto | November 13, 2007, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
ANYBODY BUT HILLARY!!!
Posted by: Steve | November 13, 2007, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm