Posted on 02/19/2007 1:43:25 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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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Thats what i've been wondering
Well it always was a Democrat flag so purging it must be important for the Party. After all the Party started flying it over the capitol in the first place.
I object to hillary.
She wants us under her flag - the hammer and sickle one!
She wants to make sure she gets the negro vote.
And BTW, you DO know she's playing the "victim" with regards to responsibility of her Senate vote on Iraq, right? It's what Dem's do well - play victim.
Another example: Poor mealy-mouthed Edwards is building the largest single-family housing complex in the county; he's a helpless victim of North Carolina's blight.
Good... the more she speaks her 'mind'... the better!
She embraced the symbolism when she was |cough| "First Lady"
|/cough| of Arkansas.
She wasn't speaking of the State flag.
She's gotta know that the Democrats won't take the state in the general election. She must be pandering for the primary.
Someone should tell her: MYOBB
whore
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... this nation has been united for how long? Did they not learn any history?
And what Governor of Arkansas made the Saturday before Easter "Confederate Flag Day"?
Why didn't someone in the press attending ask her views on burning the American flag!
..and the necklace
Indeed
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