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Rand Paul: Flag 'inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery'
politico ^ | 6-23-2015 | ADAM B. LERNER

Posted on 06/23/2015 2:44:37 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Rand Paul waited until Tuesday to take a stand on the debate over the Confederate flag, but he minced few words.

In an interview on WRKO radio in Boston, the Kentucky senator said he agrees with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call Monday for the flag to be taken down.

“I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hate so vicious that you would kill somebody, I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,” Paul said.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016election; confederateflag; election2016; tedcruz
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I guess the flag made Roof do it.
1 posted on 06/23/2015 2:44:37 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

What Coward


2 posted on 06/23/2015 2:45:59 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s rare to see such a political pile-on.

Reminds me of “1984” for some reason.


3 posted on 06/23/2015 2:46:41 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Citizen Zed

GET OFF THIS NONSENSICAL HORSE$HIT

YOU ARE LETTING THE LIBTARD MEDIA LEAD YOU AROUND BY THE NOSE


4 posted on 06/23/2015 2:46:46 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hopefully he will be former senator from Kentucky next election.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 2:47:40 PM PDT by McGruff (It's getting ugly around here.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Symbols are as powerful as people allow them to be.

This is all a giant distraction from the complete disaster the government and economy is.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 2:49:24 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Citizen Zed

For some reason when he said the flag was a symbol of bondage and slavery I thought he was talking about productive, taxpaying citizens and the American Flag.


7 posted on 06/23/2015 2:50:50 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Citizen Zed

“particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hate so vicious that you would kill somebody”

Has every politician in the country lost his damn mind?
I did not read the killer’s rant, or whatever it was that they found on facebook or whatever, but I would guess that the Confederate flag was never mentioned. The way these fools talk you would think maybe that flag should be taken to a laboratory to see what other powers it possesses.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 2:52:41 PM PDT by odawg
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You’ll never be POTUS Rand. You are the weakest link. Goodbye!


9 posted on 06/23/2015 2:53:13 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Yes, the two-minute daily hate sessions.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 2:53:22 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Citizen Zed

Since Trump got in, have all the Rand Paul freepers switched over to him, where did they go?


11 posted on 06/23/2015 2:53:28 PM PDT by ansel12 (Trump- I identify as Democrat-- favorite president?-Clinton-- your veep? "Oprah my first choice".)
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To: Citizen Zed

I don’t have the wisdom to say what should happen, but I can say that all this pandering by Republicans and the squealing on the left is based on redefining the significance of the Confederate flag, including outrageous comparisons to the Swastika. No matter how bad slavery in America ever was, it was never a campaign of mass murder, torture, medical experiments and genocide, not even close.

This is part of the ongoing war being waged by the left to destroy the meaning of words, to vilify American culture, to debase every good tradition and to re-write history. This is all in the name of obliterating everything that made the country great and to tear it down in the name of building there socialist utopia. G-d save us all.


12 posted on 06/23/2015 2:54:08 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

*their socialist utopia. Sorry.


13 posted on 06/23/2015 2:55:03 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Citizen Zed

Rand can go suck a bag of d!cks.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 2:58:53 PM PDT by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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“including outrageous comparisons to the Swastika”

That has already seeped onto this site.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 3:01:08 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Citizen Zed

Another idiot.


16 posted on 06/23/2015 3:02:20 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Citizen Zed

Good grief.....Republicans are so embarrassing.


17 posted on 06/23/2015 3:07:49 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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These Republicans are absolute, zombiefied morons.

3rd party NOW!


18 posted on 06/23/2015 3:13:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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So was this one, Rand, using your logic. You p*ssy.
19 posted on 06/23/2015 3:15:44 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Citizen Zed

The new GOP grand strategy. Tell ‘em what they want to hear. Give ‘em the red meat they crave. Populism Wins Votes! (because bread and circuses always worked out so well).


20 posted on 06/23/2015 3:17:46 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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