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Rand Paul: Confederate Flag “Inescapably A Symbol Of Human Bondage And Slavery”
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| June 23, 2015
| Andrew Kaczynski, news reporter
Posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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He's soooooo courageous!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And Joooz. Don’t forget about the evil Joooooz. < /sarc >
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posted on
06/23/2015 8:53:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: All
They’ll be calling for the demolition of Stone Mountain by the end of the week.
To: mmichaels1970
To: 2ndDivisionVet
ISIS flags are tied to executions, Islam has murdered thousands, mosques continue to preach their constant hatred. Hon about caring about most of us rather than a few offended?
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posted on
06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Someone ask him about Israel’s right to exist.
Watch his head asplode.
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posted on
06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: mmichaels1970
People in KY stayed in the Union; they don’t like Confederate flags there.
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posted on
06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
At this point the paranoia over the Confederate battle flag is getting even more annoying than the annoying pro-treason screeds of the Confederacy’s modern apologists.
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:00:25 PM PDT
by
wideawake
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Back in the 70s and 80s the Confederate Flag just meant, at least to us Northern Kids, “the South” or “Rebel”: Dukes of Hazzard, Skynyrd, even Tom Petty all sported the flag in a harmless, non racial, sense.
I respect the viewpoint of people that still feel it means that.
Still, sometimes symbols get co-opted to the point where the general meaning has been corrupted and the “negative” connotation is too widely accepted for it to be worthwhile to keep arguing about the original, benign, meaning.
(See, for example, the Roman salute and the Swastika).
I’ve thought the Confederate flag might be at that point for a while now.
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:00:26 PM PDT
by
Behind Liberal Lines
(Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, was he asked about, Our Flag of the United States of America?
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:01:09 PM PDT
by
RedHeeler
(...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another uninformed looser trying to rewrite history into something it isn’t.
To: mmichaels1970
I spent a week of my life as a child here. It was awesome, would go again!
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:01:53 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Heartless)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:07:51 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Theodore R.
>>
People in KY stayed in the Union; they dont like Confederate flags there. <<
True. Rand's daddy is also from Pennsylvania so I doubt Rand's childhood was spent lionizing the lost cause.
But Rand's stance must suck for people who are both Paulbots (if you disagree with Dr. Paul, you hate the Constitution) and neo-confederates (the south was fightin' for STATES RIGHTS and it had nuthin' to do with slavery!!). Most of the Pat Buchanan types fall into that camp. I imagine they're pulling their hair out now trying to figure out what to do.
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:07:55 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
To: mmichaels1970
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:08:00 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
To: mmichaels1970
you ain’t just a whistlin’ Dixie....(that’s next!)
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:08:11 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:08:13 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:09:53 PM PDT
by
Bronzy
To: wideawake
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:10:20 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery WHAT? Slavery is illegal in the Untied States. No one suffers in slavery under that battle flag, that is idiotic. Many flags exist today that existed during the time of slavery.
Im going to fly my CSA battle flag tomorrow just because these idiot politicians say I shouldn't.
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posted on
06/23/2015 9:11:00 PM PDT
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
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