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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Joe Biden can appeal to Southerners. He represents a former slave state, doesn't he?
:-)
Which brings us right back to: it's none of his buisiness. Whether he tries to make it so or not.
No disagreement from this end.
Typical liberal arrogance. A Delaware Senator butting his nose into South Carolina Business.
Biden is a Carpetbagger!
The first Confederate Memorial was built in Romney West Virginia
"Joe Biden is from Delaware....not exactly a "Northern" state."
I think there is an old Jerry Clower joke about a Yankee being defined as "anyone north of Shreveport". ;-)
Let's just get rid of these two outside agitators and then we can all calm down. Who invited them anyway?
Yankee is as Yankee talks.
Both Biden and Dodd should mind their own business and shut the f*ck up.
Then the South must be full of homegrown Yankees cause you don't have a shortage of Liberal bigmouths either.
Well here it is Martin Luther King Jr. day and just 39 years after his death it seems the only issue dividing the races today is one small flag in front of the SC capitol building. What a great tribute to MLK.
I'm glad to see so many loyal southerners on FR. Lee and Jackson hang on the wall of my home and office. I wish Lee and Jackson could be here today to give us some of their advise in dealing with Biden and Dodd. I think if they had known what a mess we were in today, they would have tried even harder if that were possible.
Hopefully you'll remember what happened last time you made a fatuous comment like that.
If memory serves I ended up in better shape than Columbia did.
MLK Day now serves as the offical kick-off to Black History Two Months. 50-60 more days of divisive, one-sided, special treatment for people because of the color of their skin. Democrats, of course, lead the charge for precieved political gain.
You're such a swell guy.
Go crawl back under your rock and nurse your Billy Sherman picture and your contempt of the South some more. In silence, please.
How true, how true. But the operative phrase here is "outside agitator". There is a difference.
Amen to that
(But hopefully they'll remember what happened when they did.)
What was that,,,? Atlanta Burning,Women Raped,Kids Shot,Stock Killed,,what should we remember??,tell us (or just myself) and I'm sure We'll Never Forget..
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