“I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose.”
Posted on 02/21/2007 11:08:04 AM PST by presidio9
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.
The senator picked up key endorsements last week from two black state senators who helped deliver black voters to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004. One of those politicians, state Sen. Darrell Jackson, whose media company also picked up a $10,000 consulting contract from Clinton's campaign, introduced her to the Allen University crowd.
During the AP interview, Clinton said her campaign struck no deal with Jackson. "Senator Jackson has worked in Clinton campaigns going back to 1992," she said.
Who made the Saturday before Easter "Confederate Flag Day" in Arkansas?
Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787574/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787519/posts
Pandering to the uneducated voters. She should also pay a visit to Durham for "District Attorney Appreciation Week".
Well I object to Hillary. So there!
What an opportunist. This stupid flag "controversy" is long over and done.
It doesn't even deserve to be in the news.
Senator Clinton can pretty much forget about the important Duke demographic.
>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.<
That's odd, coming from a 'Rat. I distinctly got the impression the banner they want is the one so highly prized by our friends the French.
Y'all know, that white one (and its color has nothing whatsoever to do with race).
This is me not caring one bit how much duplicates ruin your whole day. Deal with it.
It's none of her business.
It's up to South Carolinians to decide.
aND HER OPINION ABOUT TEH FLAG MATTERS TO WHOM?
Gee.. all AP stories too...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Confederate
She is taking some really tough positions~!!!!! < /sarc off>
The problem is, the banner she has in mind is the white flag.
Same article.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787519/posts
What this hammer-a$$ doesn't know is that the US flag flew over the states during the entire "slave period," not the Confederate flag.
So, her royal hind-a$$ should be offended by the U.S. flag, not the Confederate flag. All slave ships and slave sales were done under the U.S. flag. If anything, because of the Confederate flag, the Civil War came to a head and after 660,000 people died, the U.S. flag remained (and still does). Let's see if she tries to pull down our U.S. flag.
She's a jerk.
This is me, enjoying the fact that it bothers you as much as it does. Because of you, I promise to never do anything but a title search ever again. So if the titles don't match, you can save yourself the trouble of talking to the hand.
I can't believe we will be bombarded with crap for almost two years. Hillary this, Hillary that. Maybe McCain will introduce new legislation to limit political campaigns to 90 days.
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