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Biden Wants Confederate Flag Off Grounds
AP via SFGate ^ | 1/15/7 | JIM DAVENPORT

Posted on 01/15/2007 9:38:08 AM PST by SmithL

Columbia, S.C. -- Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful joining fellow Sen. Christopher Dodd at Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events, said Monday he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

"If I were a state legislator, I'd vote for it to move off the grounds — out of the state," the Delaware senator said before the civil rights group held a march and rally at the Statehouse here to support its boycott of the state.

In Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama, also prominently mentioned in speculation about the White House sweepstakes in 2008, was a hit at a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition breakfast honoring King, even if he didn't deliver what much of the crowd clearly wanted: a declaration that he will run for president.

Obama received a standing ovation at the annual King scholarship breakfast when the Rev. Jesse Jackson introduced him with an approving reference to the Illinois Democrat's presidential aspirations.

"It's a long, nonstop line between the march in Selma in 1965 and the inauguration in Washington in 2009," said Jackson, the coalition's founder and a one-time presidential candidate himself.

Later, in an address at a King remembrance service at St. Mark's Church in suburban Harvey, Obama said: "I'm not making news today. I'm not here to make news. There will be a time for that."

More than six years after the Confederate flag was taken down from the South Carolina Capitol dome, its location in front of the Statehouse remains an issue at the heart of events celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy.

Jim Hanks stood across from the Statehouse with about 35 Confederate flag supporters.

"We love this flag. We love our heritage," said Hanks, of Lexington.

Some carried signs saying: "South Carolina does not want Chris Dodd,"...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: arrogantyankees; biden; cbf; confederteflag; crossofsaintandrew; damnyankees; dixie; saintandrewscross; yankeearsonist; yankeeknowitalls
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To: XRdsRev
FYI - Joe Biden (D-Delaware) once owned property that had an explicit clause in the deed which forbade selling the property to Blacks.

This was news about 20+ years ago. I'm "surprised" that the media has forgotten about it now.

So does my house. In fact, it has a rather long paragraph describing all the people it can't be sold to or allowed to occupy it. Filipinos, interestingly, are allowed to live there as servants, but not as owners.

Trying to spin this into something proving Biden (or me) to be a racist is ridiculous. In my case, the covenants in the deed date from the original subdivision of the land in the late 1930s. Such covenants were found to be illegal by the USSC in the 1948. If you want to bash Biden for something else, have at it, but implying he's a racist because he owns (or owned) property that some long dead racist tried, in a now-illegal deed clause, to keep all-white just makes you look silly.

121 posted on 01/15/2007 2:39:07 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: D.P.Roberts

One of those makes him the perfect MLK day speaker, and I have no issue with Marty's hair.


122 posted on 01/15/2007 2:39:45 PM PST by Rastus
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To: DocH
We should make laws to prevent (similar to the law that prevents a foreigner from running for President of the U.S.) people that were not born in a particular state from running for ANY political office in that state.

Such a law would have kept Ronald Reagan (born in Illinois) from becoming governor of California, George W. Bush (born in Connecticut) from becoming governor of Texas, and Jeb Bush (born in Texas) from becoming governor of Florida.

123 posted on 01/15/2007 2:49:53 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Non-Sequitur

(Those of us in the real Red states prefer to fight for our country and not just walk away from it).

You do alot of yappin' for someone who prefers to fight.

From a Blue County in a Red State,,must be tough for ya.


124 posted on 01/15/2007 2:54:18 PM PST by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: My2Cents

Thank you! I'm from SC and I don't agree with the flag being there, but my legislature agreed put it where it is and I respect their decision. I'm getting sick and tired of Biden, Dodd, and now the NCAA trying to meddle in my state's affairs.


125 posted on 01/15/2007 2:56:38 PM PST by MissEdie (Liberalscostlives)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Such a law would have kept Ronald Reagan (born in Illinois) from becoming governor of California, George W. Bush (born in Connecticut) from becoming governor of Texas, and Jeb Bush (born in Texas) from becoming governor of Florida.

Not to mention that Jefferson Davis could not have been the Senator from Mississippi. He was born in Kentucky.

126 posted on 01/15/2007 3:00:26 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: DocH
Unfortunately, this is EXACTLY what is happening to the South. Liberal yankees with ABSOLUTELY no respect for the Southern way of life, for our traditions, history, and heritage, are running for office and bringing their liberal, essentially Un-American brand of governance with them.

You're not telling me anything I don't already know. My comment in regard to Biden moving to SC was pure sarcasm, as I wouldn't wish him on anyone. I lived in Delaware for 21 years, so I know.

I can't help the fact I was born a Yankee, it wasn't my choice to be born in NYC........but it was my choice to get out of there when I could, and then out of Delaware when I knew I should as well.

127 posted on 01/15/2007 3:01:24 PM PST by Gabz (If we weren't crazy, we'd just all go insane.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Then have the deed amended.

As a Democrat politician and lawyer, Joe Biden certainly should have known better and I do think he is a racist, maybe not the hood wearing kind but his recent comments about Indians certainly hints at the possibility that he is incredibly insenitive and demeaning to people of some other races.


128 posted on 01/15/2007 3:11:03 PM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: XRdsRev
Then have the deed amended.

Why bother? Even if it was amended, it would only add another page to the half-inch thick document saying that something the USSC said was illegal 60 years ago is no longer in force. It wouldn't remove the paragraph from the original 1938 deed for the whole subdivision.

129 posted on 01/15/2007 3:21:37 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Howlin

Thanks!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767651/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767651/posts?page=29#29
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767651/posts?page=38#38


130 posted on 01/15/2007 3:29:59 PM PST by upchuck (The American coup de grâce is well under way. Thus far, the Donks haven't had to fire a shot.)
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To: SmithL

North: 1
South: 0

Halftime.


131 posted on 01/15/2007 3:32:43 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: Zack Nguyen
The big fact probably missed by most of the people at the King celebration is that Barak Obama's skin color is a plus now, not a minus. At least in my opinion.

Why not call him white? His mother was/is white. Why not call him a mulatto?

132 posted on 01/15/2007 3:34:08 PM PST by jslade (The beatings well cease when morale improves!)
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To: SmithL

Biden would have been ahead in the race if he had just kept his big mouth shut. Wasn't he once caught plagiarizing?


133 posted on 01/15/2007 3:35:01 PM PST by Dante3
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To: SmithL; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; Abbeville Conservative; ...
We suffered through Dumbass Dodd doing this the other day.

Now it's Plugs' turn.

Rage that cannot be contained. Every four years we have to put up with this crap. Buncha dumbed down Donks tramping all over our VERY red state. They're wasting their time and pissing us off.

South Carolina Ping

Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.

134 posted on 01/15/2007 3:37:28 PM PST by upchuck (The American coup de grâce is well under way. Thus far, the Donks haven't had to fire a shot.)
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To: SmithL
Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democratic presidential ... said Monday he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

I wonder if Joe "Hairplug" Biden plagiarized that from Neil Kinnock.

135 posted on 01/15/2007 3:40:11 PM PST by Beowulf
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To: river rat
"Never has a man so lacking, from a state so inconsequential, with a mouth so large and an intellect so small --- caused such grief to a nation....as has Biden."

Needed repeatin'.

136 posted on 01/15/2007 3:58:24 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: upchuck

Thanks for the ping. Looks like a no-brainer for the Dems to do this when they know they will get nothing out of the state. Obviously looking for the black vote in other states. Gonna be a lot of pandering from just about every candidate.


137 posted on 01/15/2007 4:04:14 PM PST by MACVSOG68
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

If you are a politician and especially one who is a lawyer, it is incredibly bad judgement to leave something like that as a caveat to property you own. By not striking language like that from his deed, Biden opened himself up to questions about his feelings regarding such racial prohibitions.

At worst Biden is a racist, at best he is stupid and careless.


138 posted on 01/15/2007 4:28:35 PM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: Moose4
The black voting bloc is THE Democratic power base in SC now--the state is 30%+ black and they reliably vote 90%+ Rat, and the white vote is massively Republican.

Exactly right. He is doing the Dim Primary math. He doesn't care what the 70% white majority thinks, because 85% of them will ask for a GOP ballot on primary day.

He knows that 75% of the voters picking up a Democratic ballot in the primary will be black, those are the votes he's targeting.

SC is a Democratic write-off in the general election. Reddest of the red.

139 posted on 01/15/2007 4:57:02 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: XRdsRev

This was the same idiot that was rushing to assure a Rotary in SC that Deleware was a slave state and would have been with the Confederacy if the state had been geographically closer.


140 posted on 01/15/2007 4:59:13 PM PST by landertiger
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