I think we need more Palestinian flags. Might actually lead to more realistic policy discussions.

Don't go over so well with the electorate, especially as Palestinian terror groups like Hamas yell the same thing as members of Isis when they carry out their evil deeds.

On 9/11?
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Seriously?

Footage which is unquestioned in its integrity.

It's like every stereotypical satire of the left,like man buns and Che t-shirts.

Politicians who don't want protests had better offer great policy.

convention hall all you want.

It looks lovely to me, and hair is non partisan. The bun, on anyone, can be a natural look, and it's none of our business. For me it seems like a perfectly nice thing out of youth culture. Not everyone wants short hair.

And for a smile check out how our presidents might look with manbuns, including Lincoln: http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Politicians-Man-Buns-38918062?slide=6

The Establishment and brain-dead MSM don't want us acknowledging it, but the things you listed should all be addressed by intellugent, humane policy. Not flag bans.

Nor would the Israel flag, the South Korean flag, the Aussie flag, etc

I object to your objection to the ROK flag. Several of my Korean friends are some of the greatest classical musicians in the world.

And then there is bimbimbap and Korean Bar-B-Que...

Oh, and SUJO !!

ummmmmmm

and Republican tactics?

I've always had trouble with people waving Mexican flags when they want to change U.S. laws.

You don't wave a foreign flag during talks about U.S. laws.

that voted in the thoroughly corrupt abbas or the terrorists in hamas to be their leaders is really what the Democrats need right now? It's insulting and will only hurt our party. Fly whatever fucking flag you want at your home. The US is the ONLY country's flag that should be flying at the convention.

...whom US policy specifically recognizes and accommodates can become valuable allies. I don't expect the GOP to be grown-up enough to sign on, and I want Democrats leading the way.

that NO other country's flag should be flown at any convention. When the Palestinians act like responsible adults who want peace, I'm sure the Democrats will be ready to listen.

And the Palestinian people are not all the terrorsts you imagine them to be.

so you can stop losing this discussion by shoving words in my mouth any time now. They VOTED in a terrorist organization to be their leaders (the Palestinians in gaza). That is not something I want my party to be any part of.

They will face inconvenient protests until good solutions are in place.

decide what to do about their leaders - then they'll have to deal with the consequences. I don't believe they need to be treated as children. But that's just me.

I would go so far as to add that their flag ought not to be erased, any more than any other flag of people we need to partner with.

Should "be erased."

Flags standing for entire peoples ought to be seen. Even if one doesn't agree on that point, one must admit that banning such things sends a very particular message.

I would welcome Mexican and Cuban flags, but not Confederate flags. Real nations containing real people have value.

NOBODY is asking for the flag to be ERASED. Just not to be flown at a party convention. NO other country's flag should be flown at the party convention. Are you pretending not to understand the difference?

And would signal cowardice.

Neither Israeli nor Palestinian flags ought to be flown.

far enough back into my head to convey the way I view your histrionics on this.

...that wouldn't constitute erasure.

Just that it's in horrible taste to fly ANY other country's flag during a party convention. Go fly 100 of their flags at your house, nobody will care.

Opposing foreign flags generally is a defensible position, though I would personally welcome such signs of pluralism in the modern era of GOP paranoia and xenophobia.

A general ban would certainly sidestep charges of erasure.

to fly a foreign flag during a party convention is NOT erasing the flag. Hyperbole is not helping your case at all.

Letting the thread be about the Palestinian flag may have been unintentional, and was not a defensible case to make.

Although it was that flag that the OP was about. It wasn't specifically the Palestinian flag I objected to (although flying that particular flag turns my stomach) but that ANY foreign country's flag should fly at a party convention. Not good visuals, not good politics, not common sense.

not actually people or anything.

waved at the convention?

Or, just bitching about Palestinian flags.

Let's say some people were waving... oh... Sri Lankan flags.

What would you feel, or better yet, think, about that?

ammunition?

illegal occupation and settlements, I don't think foreign flags are appropriate at a convention, just for the sake of decorum.

I'm with you on this.

with an American citizen being passionate about an issue close to their heart.

Do we take away all the NO TPP signs that were being held up even though it goes against PBO?

Two-state solution. My $.02

Or one of a close ally nonetheless.

the terrorist hamas supporters. That's who they voted into power.

Of course, in the eyes of some, that will mean I hate Jewish people.

Like some of the people in the group of townhouses in which I live eem to think..

that is the root of this issue. Okay then.

Good to know.

if you do it at the democratic convention. How hard is that to understand?

foreign nations and foreign wars I'll be against flying foreign flags at the Democratic Convention. Now doing such is totally appropriate as a protest to US policy.

Not a difficult concept.

US State and territory flags are totally appropriate.

OMG !!!

So that would be different from a foreign flag, which I don't think would be appropriate.

I'm fine with whatever.

Personally, I don't think foreign countries' flags should be flying at our convention.

People don't wave the Stars and Stripes at Labor Party gatherings.

Especially large ones that cause a distraction and also promote views that will hurt us in November

this isn't the UN

About 2" long, and stick it in my hat?

Go ahead.

to wave around ANY foreign flag at a political party convention. No matter WHAT party.

As an aside, from the same polling that you cite to support your proposed ban:

At an American political convention?

ETA: and as it turns out there was bit more to it.

American flags, of course.

State flags, fine.

organizational flags (unions, rights groups, etc), ok.


flags of other nations? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Twitter would probably explode.

n/t

If someone else did this they would be alerted.

...in the Middle East, as it relates to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the possibility of an eventual peaceful resolution, is very much a Presidential Campaign issue in 2016, that deserves respectful and evenhanded representation at the Democratic Convention.

I've seen no dearth of American flags or enthusiastic patriotism at the convention so far. The idea that American nationalism could possibly be upstaged by one Palestinian flag at the 2016 Democratic Convention is petty and ludicrous.

TYY

he reads like someone who isn't behind our nominee: his ilk should leave the party.

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