Posted on 06/20/2015 9:58:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the fight to remove the Confederate flag from the state House grounds in South Carolina heats up, politicians are weighing in on the debate.rWhat do you think?
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham defended displaying the flag, while former presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for its removal. Carly Fiorina called it a “symbol of racial hatred,” but stopped short of saying it should be removed. Sen. Ted Cruz said South Carolinians should decide what their state does. President Barack Obama’s spokesman said the flag belongs in a museum.rWhat do you think?
But while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the gun control aspect of the national discussion, the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has remained silent on the flag controversy.rWhat do you think?
In 1987, when her husband was governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton signed Act 116 that stated “The blue star above the word “ARKANSAS” is to commemorate the Confederate States of America.”
When the Confederate flag issue arose in the 2000 election, Matt Drudge reported that then-President Bill Clinton’s spokesman Joe Lockhart was asked about the issue. Lockhart told reporters, “I’ve just never heard any discussion or any objections that the president has raised.”rWhat do you think?
In 2000, Drudge reported Vice President and Democratic nominee Al Gore as accusing then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush of refusing to take a stand on the Confederate flag issue, which then was flying over the capital dome in South Carolina.rWhat do you think?
Drudge wrote:rWhat do you think?
The Gore campaign over the weekend repeatedly refused to comment on the vice president’s silence when it comes to the flag flying over the Arkansas State House!rWhat do you think?
“The vice president will not be commenting on the Arkansas flag,” a campaign rep told the DRUDGE REPORT.rWhat do you think?
The debate of the Confederate flag resurfaced after the terrorist attack on the Emanuel AME Church that saw nine people slaughtered because of the color of their skin.
If a Republican had done that, Al Sharpton and all the leftist media would have been all over it. But if an Arkansas hillbilly does it that’s OK.
I guess the confederate flag is one less issue the left can politicize. Better go back to the pseudo “War on Women.”
The Confederate flag is part of my history and I won’t stand for the Political Correctness Nazis attempt to erase it’s REAL history.
The PC police and freedom and liberty haters here in “PC La La Land” just might wake up some day and see that flag flying proudly over the new Confederate States of America.
I hope that I live to see that happen and to live in a new/reclaimed country that actually reflects the United States I used to know.
Senator KKK byrd “democrate” would be proud
If they push this, they will soon see more Battle Flags than they have ever seen before. My ancestors fought and died under the Battle Flag. If they want to call it a symbol of hate, they will soon be made to understand that we see it as a symbol of liberty.
The Gadsten Flag is the flag of rebellion against foreign power, the Battle Flag is the flag of rebellion against oppressive government.
Did the flag pull the trigger? I find it amusing that the flag has been made an issue, deflecting from the real issue of mental illness, perhaps as the result of prescription drugs. Putting accountability aside, is this another attempt to rewrite history by making the Confederate Flag, which I consider to be the symbol of states’ rights, represent racism? The flag is part of my heritage because of where my ancestors settled in 1857. Their farms were robbed by Union Armies during the war and the South continued to suffer for many years afterward from unfair taxation and carpetbaggers. To me there is honor, not racism, associated with the flag.
Bumping this important thread!
Will Hillary stay in hiding so she doesn’t have to answer what she would do about the Confederate flag?
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina and the 77th Lieutenant Governor. Wikipedia
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