(09-10-2018 11:25 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 10:54 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 07:07 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I guess there was no place for Robert to kneel.

The Story on Robert and Renting the VFW Post for a Rally

Quote:“I do not normally attend rental events, but I attended Saturday to make sure things ran smoothly,” said Dry, who noted there were only two requests he could not allow at the VFW Post. “They wanted to open the doors (to the Flight Deck Lounge) and I couldn’t allow that and they wanted to take the flags down, I didn’t only say no, I said hell no, you don’t take the flags off the wall. I can’t believe any American would ask us to do that and I don’t know why he wanted them down or what he was going to put up instead.”

I think next time he should rent a fing Bandidos meeting hall and ask the members to take *their* colors off. Makes about as much sense as asking a VFW Hall to take down their US flags.

Robert's campaign is furiously denying the story. Which do you believe, a VFW Post Commander or a career politician?

The VFW commander says someone asked for the flags to be taken down, but in a later interview he said that he didn't know if they were campaign people are not. Given how ludicrous it would be a for a campaign staff to make that request (and O'Rourke's campaign does not seem to be run by idiots), I'm inclined to believe that the request is more likely to have come from misguided attendees than from campaign staff. I guess we won't really know.

But whether staff, volunteer, attendee, onlooker or other, it's bizarre that anyone would think that a United States flag does not belong at a rally for United States office.

Yep, this is the correct answer, seems like it will remain unproven one way or the other without further information. Another item that remains unproven is whether these two politicians will actually debate each other or if they're both all talk, as is typical.