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Sen. Dodd Calls for the Removal of the Confederate Flag from South Carolina's Statehouse Grounds
WISTV.COM (Columbia, SC) ^ | 01/14/06 | ConservativeInferno

Posted on 01/14/2007 5:48:30 PM PST by conservativeinferno

(Greenville-AP) January 14, 2007 - US Senator Christopher Dodd calls Sunday for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse. The Connecticut Democrat was attending a Martin Luther King Junior memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night.

He says black and white young people from South Carolina are fighting under one flag in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dodd says the Confederate flag belongs in a museum.

Dodd will be at the King Day at the Dome rally at the Statehouse Monday. The event was started six years ago as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People launched economic sanctions against South Carolina to force the flag from the Capitol dome.

It was moved from there and put out front at the Confederate Soldier Monument on Statehouse grounds.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: confederate; crossofsaintandrew; damnyankee; dixie; dodd; hypocrite; idiot; legendinhisownmind; nothingtodo; saintandrewscross; sandwich
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To: Moose4

"David 'Weaseley' Beasley"

LOL, your northern cousins in NC refer to Governor Mike Easley, Democrat, as "Weasley."


101 posted on 01/14/2007 8:19:10 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: groanup
It's pro forma for Democrats to say this. South Carolina is very heavily black, something like 30-35%. Of that, you can figure on the Democrat getting 90%+ of the vote easily. So the black vote is the power center in SC Democratic politics now. Dodd is simply pandering. He'll probably also do the other pandering thing that Rats did back in 2000 and 2004...they refused to spend money in South Carolina when campaigning there. They would actually either stay in private homes, or if they had to use a motel, they'd stay in North Carolina or Georgia, gas up there, and drive in. Again, nothing but pandering.

The irony is is that most of the blacks I knew when I lived in Columbia didn't care about the flag one way or the other. They might've preferred it out of sight, but they were sick of hearing about it and in general, didn't seem to mind it. After the compromise that put that flag behind that monument, the only people that kept bringing it up over and over were out-of-state politicians, race pimps like Jesse Jackson, and the state NAACP come fund-raising time. The general public, regardless of race or political leaning, mostly considered the matter closed once the flag moved from the top of the Statehouse dome down to the Confederate Soldiers Memorial.

}:-)4

102 posted on 01/14/2007 8:21:40 PM PST by Moose4 ("Your attitude's the reason the triggers keep squeezin'...the hunt is on and it's open season")
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To: JSDude1

I'd be happy if they'd just cordon themselves off in Massachusetts.


103 posted on 01/14/2007 8:21:54 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: conservativeinferno
When New England gets rid of Dodd, Sanders, Kennedy, Kerry, Franks, Snow, Collins .....
104 posted on 01/14/2007 8:25:02 PM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon
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To: smalltownslick

You come to my town and tell us what flag to fly or not to fly and we'll show your smalltown butt the highway back home.

Dodd has no business whatsoever calling for South Carolina to do anything.

Spit on him and those who support him on this.


105 posted on 01/14/2007 8:25:58 PM PST by Eagle Eye (I'm a RINO because I'm too conservative to be a real Republican.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Heh, actually, I'm headed to North Carolina. I live in Virginia now but my employer's transferring me to the Durham area in a couple of weeks. Easley sounds a lot like our back-to-back Rat governors up here, Mark Warner and Tim "The Eyebrow" Kaine. Just down-home enough to con people into thinking they aren't tax-and-spend liberals, and then bam, here come the tax hikes. At least South Carolina's got maybe the best governor in the country in Mark Sanford.

}:-)4


106 posted on 01/14/2007 8:26:14 PM PST by Moose4 ("Your attitude's the reason the triggers keep squeezin'...the hunt is on and it's open season")
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To: smalltownslick

"You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways."

Nonsense. I'm American and Southern. Proud to be both. The old, "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God" reflects a true sentiment.


107 posted on 01/14/2007 8:26:46 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Moose4
...the only people that kept bringing it up over and over were out-of-state politicians, race pimps like Jesse Jackson, and the state NAACP come fund-raising time.

And in this day of central government and, what used to be, central media, we have to bow to the almighty intellects of those who would be kings. Screw 'em. If SC wants to secede again I'll move there. No war, just freedom. IF there is any state that even comes close to the ideas that existed prior to 1860 it is SC. And don't give me the slavery crap. That is ancient history. I'll warrant that you can find many black South Carolinians who would also be ready to shed themselves of the Imperial Federal Government.

108 posted on 01/14/2007 8:28:50 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: Moose4
Great post Moose4.
Looks like all the issues in CT are solved, so their politicians came down to help the good people of S.C.

Why was Senator Dodd politicizing in a church.....I thought the Democrats believed in that sep. of church and state?

109 posted on 01/14/2007 8:31:58 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: L98Fiero

You're on!


110 posted on 01/14/2007 8:32:31 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: smalltownslick
Sorry, on this issue I agree with him.

Well good, there are two of you we can tell off. In Texas we often fly all the flags that have flown over the state. Should we haul them all down? Spain - Mexico - France? How about the Texas Flag, I mean my family fought under it while killing yankees, and it's the same one flown by the Republic.

111 posted on 01/14/2007 8:33:27 PM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon
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To: albee

"As long as you ARE part of the United States, that flag has no place flying over a government building of any kind."
Does your statement include state flags also? After all...we're all Americans. Why should each state have a separate flag?


States still exist today. The Confederacy doesn't.


112 posted on 01/14/2007 8:38:13 PM PST by smalltownslick
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To: groanup

The problem is, South Carolina's state government is very screwed-up (and I say this as someone who lived there for seven years and absolutely adores the place). Local municipalities couldn't do ANYTHING without massive interference from the legislature until maybe thirty years ago--"home rule," cities and counties actually being able to do things without their state legislative delegations meddling, is a radical and recent concept there. The General Assembly is still pretty bloody "imperial" itself, despite the fact that it's ostensibly GOP-dominated.

Mark Sanford has been slamming heads with the General Assembly nonstop for over four years now trying to get them to control pork, and he hasn't always won. And despite his efforts, taxes there are higher than you'd think. It varies by city/county/school district, but our cars' property taxes were obscene living around the Columbia area, and the state income tax was quite high. The sales tax was low, though.

The people, even a lot of the liberals, really do have an independent and ornery streak in them that's fantastic. South Carolina catches so much crap in the dominant media, painted as some sort of backward, inbred, hick, poverty-stricken place, and it's not. It's a great place to live, provided you're not looking for New York or Los Angeles.

}:-)4


113 posted on 01/14/2007 8:38:59 PM PST by Moose4 ("Your attitude's the reason the triggers keep squeezin'...the hunt is on and it's open season")
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To: Eagle Eye

You come to my town and tell us what flag to fly or not to fly and we'll show your smalltown butt the highway back home

The question is - why does this non-issue mean so much to you? Why is it so important to you, in 2007, to fly a flag that represents you as being a separate, sovereign nation from the United States? Please explain, rationally, not emotionally. Most of the time, here, we're concerned with doing everything we can to save our United States. But this issue seems to come down on the side of f*** the United States.


114 posted on 01/14/2007 8:43:45 PM PST by smalltownslick
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To: Moose4

From what I understand, Mark Sanford is the only hero among governers. He has butted heads with spenders to the tune of billions and has so far won. Am I wrong?


115 posted on 01/14/2007 8:44:52 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: stainlessbanner
You would have loved TV news tonight in Tupelo. The SCV had a birthday bash for a Real Daughter in Booneville, Ms, and the WTVA led with that story. The Black and White newscasters were animated and positive about the story and it had interviews with the SCV Camp Commander about preserving the heritage of the South and honoring the Sons and Daughters of those Confederate heroes. The newscasters nodded approvingly....then the news moved to the MLK Birthday Bash celebrations....You'd had to have seen it...it was rich..
117 posted on 01/14/2007 8:47:56 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Celebratelife008
I love that a yankee democrat is telling South Carolinians what they need to do.

Ain't that why they shot at 'em in the first place?

118 posted on 01/14/2007 8:48:25 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (http://www.wardsmythe.com)
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To: L98Fiero

"You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways."

Nonsense. I'm American and Southern. Proud to be both. The old, "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God" reflects a true sentiment."

No, it's not nonsense. It's great to be Southern, but being Southern doesn't mean you deny being a part of the United States. That's the issue - the Confederate flag represents a sovereign nation outside the United States. Now are you a part of the United States, or are you still a part of the Confederacy (which ended a LONG time ago??)


119 posted on 01/14/2007 8:48:40 PM PST by smalltownslick
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