Clinton Objects to Confederate Flag [South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag....]

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Clinton Objects to Confederate Flag

Feb 19 4:25 PM US/Eastern

By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.

"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.

"I personally would like to see it removed from the Statehouse grounds," the New York senator said during her first trip to the early voting state since announcing her White House bid.

Other Democratic hopefuls, including Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, have said the flag should come down. The banner, which once flew over the Statehouse dome and now flies nearby, is the subject of an ongoing NAACP boycott.

Clinton is one of several Democrats to draw huge crowds during campaign stops in the state, but she said during the interview that her party will have a tough time winning in GOP-heavy South Carolina

"I think it's going to be hard for any Democrat to carry the state," she said. "The Republican Party is very strong here."

Earlier in the day, Clinton spoke to more than 1,500 people gathered at Allen University, a historically black college in Columbia.

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"The latest antics of our favorite Pantsuit."

[potlatch]

Sorry george, I had missed your very good post when I just posted.

[Miss Didi]

That's hysterical!

[TexasRepublic]

That political whore can go to perdition!

[ilovew]

I personally would like her to stay the hell out of my state.

[george76]

no problem.

glad that you are here too

[Miss Didi]

The Post reported $200,000:

[JSDude1]

she should SHOVE it! And stop south bashing.

[devolve]

[potlatch]

Lol, Hillary better watch out for that little mouse!

[silentreignofheroes]

Welcome Home...Bama

[cougar_mccxxi]

Hillary is an example of the kind of idiot that would call a celtic cross a racist symbol.

[Tarpon]

The Democrats should instruct the terrorists wing of the Democrat party, the KKK, to take the flag down. After all, they put it up.

[StoneWall Brigade]

KKK has nothing to do with the Confederate Flag

[devolve]

That's a rat!

Her pet!

[oldenuff2no]

Hitlery does not want anyone to have any history. Only then can she ignore her husbands history of rape and affairs.
It's their state, and their flag. Keep your Yankee nose out of it. That is what started the last war between the states. Remember you are from New York now!!! The south wasn't good enough for you!!!!!

[thelastvirgil]

Simple pandering to the crowd that still and forever will consider themselves victims of the Confederacy. There's nothing more sickening than a pandering politician, and you can double that when the pol's last name is Klintoon.

[dforest]

Your response is just too good! LOL

[Tarpon]

I know the KKK had nothing directly to do with the Confederate Flag, but sometimes it's important to know how they got there, and why that flag became the symbol it has become.

The history of the KKK goes back to the end of the civil war, when the southern Democrats needed terrorist to help regain control of the south's statehouses. It was through this terrorism that they finally ended the reconstruction and the north gave over control of southern state houses to the Democrats/KKK. That control dwindled and then eventually ended in the late 70s after the passage by Republicans of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Democrat governors used the convenient Confederate flag as their symbol of segregation, that's why in defiance they had it hoisted on state houses across the south.

The fact that another took up the flag, takes it's original significance, and turns it into something else, doesn't matter. People like Clinton hope you forgot to look up the history and just see those Republicans in the southern state house and blame the "racism" all on them. That's how transference works.

To say the KKK didn't have anything to do with putting those flags on the state houses in the south is like saying there is a difference between the military wing and the political wing of Hamas.

[StoneWall Brigade]

The Confederate Flags were put to honor the brave soldiers who fought and died in the Confederate Army your post is nothing more then NAACP spew