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the candidates weigh in

[Kenton]

Candidate and Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich replied that because of the NAACP boycott of the entire state of South Carolina (due to one Confederate flag flying on the state capitol grounds at a Confederate war memorial) he was spending the nights outside South Carolina.

Seems like a good way to keep less than desirable people out of the state, to me. However, this did mean that the Masters Inn out on I-21 lost out on a body to fill a single... Not that Dennis has any money left to pay anyway.

[Texas Federalist]

The sad thing is that of the three candidates mentioned. Sharpton gave the most direct and reasonable answer (even though I disagree). And Clark's answer . . . WOW!!! What a moron.

[Between the Lines]

The Confederate flag flying on SC state property is only an issue so long as it benefits a candidate. Tomorrow it will be a forgotten cause for another four years.

[Redbob]

"Would Democratic candidates Edwards, Lieberman and Sharpton all be in favor of tearing down this memorial to a brave Confederate soldier who was black?"

Of course they would - bad-mouthing the Confederacy is a part of the liberal Yankee mantra.

[azhenfud]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

[norton]

"...The Confederate flag is part of history. It's not part we're proud of. The only place it would belong in my opinion would be in a museum case..."

Funny, I've never heard him complaining about the mexican flag and it's an obsolete part of "our" history as well.

Oops. I keep forgetting that THAT south is indeed rising again.

[DustyMoment]

Actually, I'm in favor of ALL the race baiters who want to abolish every vestige of the Confederacy. The sooner they succeed, the better we will be.

Before you start flaming me, let me finish. If we abolish every vestige of the Confederacy, we eliminate every and all evidence of slavery. If there was no Confederacy, there could never have been slavery, nor was there a Civil War. If NONE of things things occurred, there is no justification for reparations becuase slavery never existed in the US because there was never any Confederacy.

History, no matter how hard the revisionists try to change it, is immutable. Emotionalism invested in such things as slavery and reparations arguments are temporal and transient in time. The sooner we abolish the justification for the emotional argument, the sooner that history can begin to resurrect the truth about the Confederacy.

[bourbon]

(((MS PING)))

WND: Are you going to campaign in Mississippi?

SHARPTON: I'm going to campaign in Mississippi.

WND: And you're going to condemn their state flag?

SHARPTON: Absolutely! Unequivocally!

[Rebeleye]

These candidates will long be history before the Confederate flag stops flying at the Confederate Memorial in Columbia, SC. It would take a 2/3rds majority of the SC House and Senate to remove it, so these candidates are groveling for liberal votes with their asinine statements.

[CurlyBill]

Union General William T. Sherman in a letter to his brother: "I would not if I could abolish or modify slavery.... Niggers won't work unless they are owned."

Yeah, the north was just so clean when it comes to this issue....

[aomagrat]

REP. CLYBURN: Oh, I don't know. You'll have to ask the NAACP people. I've made it very clear what my position is on that. And my position has been stated out there for a long time. Because I believe the compromise that was reached by the black legislators and the white legislators over the current position of that flag, gives us an interim solution that we ought to live with for a while. And maybe at some point in the future revisit it. As it stands now, that was a compromise voted for by every single black legislator, save one who did not vote, but abstained from voting. Everybody else supported it, and therefore I support it.

Even South Carolina's most prominent black politician is against the NAACP's boycott.

[DAVID-JONLAWRENCE]

I BELEIVE THAT BY TAKING AWAY THIS STANDARD, AMERICA IS SETTING ITSELF UP FOR FAILURE. PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS OBJECT WHEN THEY HAVE SOMTHING TO OBJECT TO. SO I SAY FIGHT BACK. FORM AN ORGANIZATION THAT WILL STAND AGAINST THE NAACP. GET THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE. PUSH FOR THE BAN OF RACISM SUCH AS FUBU OR TOMMYHILL FIGURE.I THINK (FOR US BY US) IS MUCH MORE CLEAR IN ITS TRANSLATION THAN THE FALSE INTERPRATAION OF THE SOTHERN CROSS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'D BE WILLING TO WAGER THAT IN THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS PAST, THE TRUE MEANING OF THE CONFEDERACY HAS BEEN LOST. IN NONE OF THE SEPERATIONS POSTED BY THE STATE DID IT SAY "BECAUSE YOU WON'T LET ME HAVE SLAVES." IT CLEARLY STATES BECAUSE OF THE ACTS OF THE GOVERMENT. IN TWO HUNDRED YEARS HOWEVER THERE WILL BE NO MISTAKE IN A SINGLE RACE OF PEOPLE QUOTING "FOR US BY US." IM A CONFEDERATE SUPPORTOR AND HAVE FRIENDS THAT ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WHO DON'T CARE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. MOST PEOPLE OVER LOOK THE MAIN SIMMULARITY BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA...AMERICA... WITH THAT SAID I SAY LET THEM STOP TAKING THEIR AGRESSION OUT ON THE SOUTH, STOP TAKING THEIR AGRESSIONS OUT ON EACH OTHER, AND START TAKING THEM OUT ON THE INDIVUALS, YES THE INDIVIDUALS WHO OPRESS THEM. GOD BLESS THE SOUTH

[DAVID-JONLAWRENCE]

I BELEIVE THAT BY TAKING AWAY THIS STANDARD, AMERICA IS SETTING ITSELF UP FOR FAILURE. PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS OBJECT WHEN THEY HAVE SOMTHING TO OBJECT TO. SO I SAY FIGHT BACK. FORM AN ORGANIZATION THAT WILL STAND AGAINST THE NAACP. GET THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE. PUSH FOR THE BAN OF RACISM SUCH AS FUBU OR TOMMYHILL FIGURE.I THINK (FOR US BY US) IS MUCH MORE CLEAR IN ITS TRANSLATION THAN THE FALSE INTERPRATAION OF THE SOTHERN CROSS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'D BE WILLING TO WAGER THAT IN THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS PAST, THE TRUE MEANING OF THE CONFEDERACY HAS BEEN LOST. IN NONE OF THE SEPERATIONS POSTED BY THE STATE DID IT SAY "BECAUSE YOU WON'T LET ME HAVE SLAVES." IT CLEARLY STATES BECAUSE OF THE ACTS OF THE GOVERMENT. IN TWO HUNDRED YEARS HOWEVER THERE WILL BE NO MISTAKE IN A SINGLE RACE OF PEOPLE QUOTING "FOR US BY US." IM A CONFEDERATE SUPPORTOR AND HAVE FRIENDS THAT ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WHO DON'T CARE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. MOST PEOPLE OVER LOOK THE MAIN SIMMULARITY BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA...AMERICA... WITH THAT SAID I SAY LET THEM STOP TAKING THEIR AGRESSION OUT ON THE SOUTH, STOP TAKING THEIR AGRESSIONS OUT ON EACH OTHER, AND START TAKING THEM OUT ON THE INDIVUALS, YES THE INDIVIDUALS WHO OPRESS THEM. GOD BLESS THE SOUTH