[j. earl carter]

I suspect there were so many flags left over because the people attending Obama's speech didn't want them in the first place. I'm guessing that these were offered at the door on the way in, and there weren't too many takers.

Although, the flag waving by the delegates on the field at the stadium during the Obama speech seemed a little creepy and weird to me. It came across as phony, and that's worse than being 'merely' unpatriotic.

[FlyVet]

I’ve posted this before. I watched the 2004 Dem convention on PBS. Gwen Ifill questioned the Dem delegates about their mass flag-waving. She reported that they told her they would do “whatever it takes” to get Kerry elected. So yeah, it is phony.