pictures dodd and biden don't like us to see.
Posted on 01/15/2007 9:38:08 AM PST by SmithL
Columbia, S.C. -- Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful joining fellow Sen. Christopher Dodd at Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events, said Monday he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.
"If I were a state legislator, I'd vote for it to move off the grounds — out of the state," the Delaware senator said before the civil rights group held a march and rally at the Statehouse here to support its boycott of the state.
In Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama, also prominently mentioned in speculation about the White House sweepstakes in 2008, was a hit at a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition breakfast honoring King, even if he didn't deliver what much of the crowd clearly wanted: a declaration that he will run for president.
Obama received a standing ovation at the annual King scholarship breakfast when the Rev. Jesse Jackson introduced him with an approving reference to the Illinois Democrat's presidential aspirations.
"It's a long, nonstop line between the march in Selma in 1965 and the inauguration in Washington in 2009," said Jackson, the coalition's founder and a one-time presidential candidate himself.
Later, in an address at a King remembrance service at St. Mark's Church in suburban Harvey, Obama said: "I'm not making news today. I'm not here to make news. There will be a time for that."
More than six years after the Confederate flag was taken down from the South Carolina Capitol dome, its location in front of the Statehouse remains an issue at the heart of events celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy.
Jim Hanks stood across from the Statehouse with about 35 Confederate flag supporters.
"We love this flag. We love our heritage," said Hanks, of Lexington.
Some carried signs saying: "South Carolina does not want Chris Dodd,"...
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I have no real interest in South Carolina, but if Biden and Dodd are for it, I'm against it.
A little off aren't you senator??
dumbest man in the senate bump
Biden plagiarizing again!
Dim-witted feckless imbeciles - a good description of the Senate in general.
pictures dodd and biden don't like us to see.
Geez, first Dodd and not Biden? Can McCain and Romney be far behind?
True, I curse the New Jersey Compromise that gave us a bicameral legislature every time idiots like Biden and Dodd and Chafee and such hit for a lot more than their electoral weight. But at least until the 1920s senators were elected by the respective state legislatures, not popular votes within their states.
When he decided to run for president.
http://www.generallee.leeslieutenants.com/schedule.htm
The General's Schedule
But hopefully they'll remember what happened when they did.
Senator Bidet is at it again. he stinks.
Hope Joe and Chris weren't counting on winning any Southern electoral votes.
Dodd, Biden, both can kiss my boots, and leave the south alone..I suspect others have stronger feelings than I
(and as I remember wasnt Biden the one whom recently claimed that Delaware was one of the northern 'slave' states he was trying to infer that he sympathises with the south??)?..Wot a Moron..!
So it's up to the President to lobby for design and placement of state flags?
And I would like it if Biden moved to some other country. We sure do not need him here. I can think of many places where he could go, and the sooner the better.
Ditto what you said.
When he's busy pandering for votes, yes. All the while hoping that those he's pandering too don't realize that he has not authority over the design and placement of any flags in South Carolina.
So? People in Hell want ice water.
That P.O.S. Biden would sell his mom for a vote.
To state the obvious, Biden or Dodd either one could not care less about the Confederate flag, just potential Black votes. Maybe Obama ought to go the other, and say that he supports the flag because he doesn't want to offend southern voters.
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