Kommissar Klinton would prefer it if we were all united under this flag.
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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The latest antics of our favorite Pantsuit.
Jesse Jackson, while visiting a primary school class, found himself in
the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asks the Rev. Jackson if he would like to lead the discussion of
the word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example
of a "tragedy."
One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is
playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that
would be a tragedy."
No," says the Great Jesse Jackson, "that would be an accident."
A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a
cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted spiritual leader.
"That's what we would call a great loss."
The room goes silent.
No other children volunteer.
Rev. Jackson searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an
example of a tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand. In a stern voice
he says: "If a plane carrying the Rev. Jackson were struck by a missile and blown
to smithereens that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson, "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be
a tragedy?"
"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and
it probably wouldn't be an accident either."
Is that the same one you wipe your ass with? Hypocrisy, thy name is Hillary.
You made me smile. Thanks. I am not feeling well so I needed that laugh.
She just keeps getting dumber and dumberer. This is a pathetic attempt to appease/ appeal to the minority demographic lightly disguised as patriotism.
The confederate battle flag is and always will be a potent, historical symbol of the South and its struggle for independence from the Union.
Good point.
Okie did more than made me smile. I almost fell off the chair laughing!
South Carolina Ping
Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.
Well, besides not feeling all that great, these past few weeks have been very odd for me. Guess I am just missing my daughter, husband, brother and mother.
"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."
Unite under one banner while at war? Breathtaking hypocrisy from an enemy of the state who has undermined the Administration covertly and overtly for 6 years.
Did she also raise similar objections to the state flag of Arkansas, which also pays honor to the Confederacy (albeit in a more subtle fashion)?
She knows she won't take South Carolina, and she won't win votes from those who can see the Confederate flag as something other than an emblem of oppression.
However, she feels that she can gain votes elsewhere by taking this symbolic stance on the Confederate flag. Unfortunately, she is probably right.
Check out this excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times:
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Sen. Barack Obama arrived here Friday night [February 16, 2007] for a rally at the Metropolitan Convention Center -- his first trip to South Carolina as a presidential candidate -- things were in an uproar. The day before, he'd been rebuffed by state Sen. Darrell Jackson, one of the most prominent and politically influential black men in the state, in a deal that, as the late Lu Palmer used to say, "is enough to make a Negro turn black."Elsewhere I have read that consulting contract has a total value of $100K!Jackson, also the pastor of a 10,000-member congregation, is the head of Sunrise Enterprises. The political consulting firm picked up a $10,000-a-month consulting contract with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, apparently reneging on an earlier commitment to the Obama camp.
At the same time, another state senator, Robert Ford, was frantically backpedaling from earlier comments in which he defended his support of Clinton by arguing that Obama would drag the Democratic ticket down.
Although Obama didn't address the Jackson controversy during his speech, he took clear aim at Ford's a-black-man-can't-win attitude -- linking those remarks to historical markers in the civil rights movement.
"Someone said if Obama was president that we would lose up and down the ticket -- governor's race, state senator races, local races -- can't have a black man at the top of the ticket," he told a frenzied crowd of about 2,800 people.
"I know this . . . that when folks were saying we are going to march for our freedoms, somebody said you can't do that.
"When somebody said let's sit at the lunch counter, [somebody said] we can't do that. ... When somebody says a woman belongs in the kitchen -- and not in the work force, they said we can't do that.
"I don't believe in this can't do, won't do, won't even try style of leadership. Don't believe in that," he told a screaming crowd. "Yes, we can."
Politically, it was a strange welcome in a city that seven years ago was embroiled in a battle with the NAACP because the Confederate flag -- a symbol seen as offensive by many African Americans -- still flew from the state Capitol.
And here, from a FReep in Aug, 2006, is a pic of the Confederate flag in question:
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