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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Cling to all the southron myths you wish. But the one fact you cannot wish away is that you lost your rebellion.
Only if they rebel again. Otherwise I have absolutely no interest in what they do, which flag they choose to fly, or where they fly it.
Go crawl back under your rock and nurse your Billy Sherman picture and your contempt of the South some more. In silence, please.
Ummm...no.
There was no rebellion.
If you think there was, prove it. Show me the documentation, show me the appeals from governors and legislatures declaring insurrection and calling for assistance from the federal government.
Show me, if you can. Of course, you can't.
At least you can spell "Southron".We didn't lose,the Constitution lost.
What do you mean "lost"? It ain't over yet. As long as people like Dodd and Biden are still attacking us it is still on. You think we aren't gonna fight back? I am a former U.S. Marine and proud to be so, BUT I am also a loyal Southerner and will always fight for the conservative views we continue to stand for.
Sure there was. It was in all the papers.
Show me the documentation, show me the appeals from governors and legislatures declaring insurrection and calling for assistance from the federal government.
Irrelevant. They first defied and initiated an armed opposition to the authority of the federal government, and then they lost. That meets the definition of rebellion.
Show me, if you can. Of course, you can't.
I'll let history speak for me.
Justin Wilson said he married a girl from "way, way up North...up around Shreveport."
Why dont these carpet bagging butt holes go back to their own states and solve the problems of their own blacks.
I realise Conn. doesnt have many ,but I would bet the ones there have plenty of complaints to keep Old Dodd busy. Certainly Delaware has their own problems.
Long years of practice.
We didn't lose,the Constitution lost.
Hardly.
Nor is it exactly a "Southern" state, with its large population of Philthadelphian transplants.
Calling Joe Biden a Presidential Hopeful is a joke. The only one who hopes he can win is his wife. It would keep him too busy to bother her.
Justin Wilson said he married a girl from "way, way up North...up around Shreveport."
"I gar-on-teee!"
You know, that may be the bit I'm thinking of instead of Clower.
YEEEEE----HHAAAWWWWWWW!!!!
We're born knowin'..
I'll let history speak for me.
Except for this part, no doubt:
"If you bring these [Confederate] leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion." -- Salmon P. Chase, SCOTUS Chief Justice, 1865 *
*Shelby Foote, The Civil War,Vol. 3, p. 726
"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law. The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired." - Salmon P. Chase, SCOTUS Chief Justice, 1869
He's such a whore.
Just a few weeks ago, he was in SC playing up a slavery angle in hopes of helping his presidential bid.
Under the Founder's original Constitution -- not all were entitled to vote...
There was some "criteria"....
Our Founder's Constitution required the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote, and it required the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to outlaw slavery, grant citizenship to former slaves and children born in America and to grant them the votes...
I still maintain - that under the FOUNDER's Constitution we wouldn't have the current Leftist "Democrat" party -- whose primary base is women, blacks and recent immigrants - both legal and illegal as is apparent....and they are now voting.
Semper Fi
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