Should Confederate flag still fly in S.C.? (McCain flops around - Hunter stands tall)

The State ^ | 2/11//07 | Wayne Washington

[pissant]

[stm]

"We’re talking about history here"

I've lived in the south my entire life and that's a part of this country's history that I would rather not be reminded of. Slavery was shameful.

[cripplecreek]

Let southern history and culture stand.

[nuconvert]

This isn't a national issue. It's up to the people in S.Carolina

[Monterrosa-24]

Bob Dornan was the type of California conservative who would fall all over himself patronizing liberal Blacks. I hope Hunter keeps on a different course.

[sono]

The irony of this post on Lincoln's Birthday is palpable.

[tsomer]

I think South Carolina paid Sherman's Army for all past crimes, and paid in full. They can fly any flag they want.

I wish we had Sherman in Iraq.

[Chi-townChief]

Absolutely.

[Long Island Pete]

Bravo. I have no problem with the Confederate flag because I dont see the hatred it has been labeled with.

[cripplecreek]

Yep. I'm pure Michigan yankee and I'm glad the north won but I hold no grudges and see no reason to continue to punish the great great grandchildren of those who fought.

[TomGuy]

After he lost, McCain said he didn’t address the issue fully because “I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary.”

So McCain is admitting that he intentionally lied?????

[Thermalseeker]

Slavery was shameful.

Agreed, but states rights are not shameful.

[MBB1984]

The flag only flies over a monument to Confederate War dead. I can't see how anyone but a PC radical, multicultural leftist would have a problem with the Confederate Battle flag flying over a Confederate monument.

The NAACP should be addressing real issues that affect those who it pretends to represent.

[RC2]

So are we to just pretend that the flag never existed? It was a battle flag for the southern military. Are we to wipe out history concerning President Lincoln? He was against getting rid of slavery but did so for political reasons and to help gain support for the war. It's all part of our history and we need it to remind us of things we did wrong so we don't make the same mistakes in the future.

[conserv8ive1]

It was politically expedient.

[billbears]

Slavery was shameful.

Indeed it was. Good thing the Flag never flew over one slave ship (but the union flag did).

I have a more important question. How is it the business of a national politician how a state honors its dead? Oh that's right it's not!

[Non-Sequitur]

Should Confederate flag still fly in S.C.?

Why not?

[pissant]

The irony is that the victorious North did not demand that southern states could not fly the stars and bars, but in these jessie-jacksonifacation times, all the libs do. It hasn't stopped a large reverse migration of blacks to the south either.

[Huck]

Maybe Germany should go back to this one. After all, “We’re talking about history here."

And you gotta admit, it's a pretty slick logo. I believe one reason the reb flag lives on is cuz it's cool looking.

"We don’t think we should be slapping anybody’s history in the face.”

Well that's the problem. To a lot of black folks, the presense of this flag is a slap in the face.

And yo, flamers, don't bother.