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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: conservativeinferno

Until Senator Graham starts sticking his nose into what's going on in Connecticut I suggest Senator Dodd keep his nose out of what's going on in South Carolina.


161 posted on 01/15/2007 5:53:48 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: vetvetdoug
The Northern Army took anything that wasn't nailed down here (Grant's wife took 20 wagon loads of furniture from this town alone) and burned the rest.

Now couldn't we just have had a nice discussion slamming Dodd for sticking his nose where it don't belong without injecting southron myth into the mix and making into another Southern rebellion thread?

162 posted on 01/15/2007 5:58:07 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: smalltownslick
Sorry, I'm still not getting this. You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways. Why would you want to fly a flag indicating you're not? By your logic, if a state wanted to fly a Muslim flag or a Mexican flag, it would be Ok, because it's "up to the states to decide."

So...if it were up to you they would change the name of the amusement parks to "One Flag Over Georgia" and "One Flag Over Texas" and all the rest?

163 posted on 01/15/2007 6:02:18 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stand watie

Looks like we're gonna have to "McCain" Dodd. You up for another round?


164 posted on 01/15/2007 6:09:35 AM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: stainlessbanner
I thought the Democrats believed in that sep. of church and state?

Because they are flaming hypocrites!

165 posted on 01/15/2007 6:18:17 AM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: smalltownslick
Sorry, I'm still not getting this. You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways. Why would you want to fly a flag indicating you're not? By your logic, if a state wanted to fly a Muslim flag or a Mexican flag, it would be Ok, because it's "up to the states to decide."

Check out the state flags of Hawaii with the Union Jack, Mississippi with the stars and bars, New Mexico, Alabama with St. Andrew's cross, etc. Most state flags relate to their own unique history and not whether they are part of the US or not. It is all about federalism and the individual states which comprise the Union.

166 posted on 01/15/2007 6:29:20 AM PST by kabar
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To: conservativeinferno
Dodd belongs in a museum also. The Museum of the Damned.
167 posted on 01/15/2007 6:30:13 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Dimocrats stand for everything I hate, despise and wish to see destroyed, including dimocrats!)
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To: conservativeinferno

And this is gonna be his major campaign theme? God almighty!!!


168 posted on 01/15/2007 6:30:48 AM PST by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: kabar
Check out the state flags of Hawaii with the Union Jack, Mississippi with the stars and bars, New Mexico, Alabama with St. Andrew's cross, etc. Most state flags relate to their own unique history and not whether they are part of the US or not. It is all about federalism and the individual states which comprise the UnionCheck out the state flags of Hawaii with the Union Jack, Mississippi with the stars and bars, New Mexico, Alabama with St. Andrew's cross, etc. Most state flags relate to their own unique history and not whether they are part of the US or not. It is all about federalism and the individual states which comprise the UnionCheck out the state flags of Hawaii with the Union Jack, Mississippi with the stars and bars, New Mexico, Alabama with St. Andrew's cross, etc. Most state flags relate to their own unique history and not whether they are part of the US or not. It is all about federalism and the individual states which comprise the UnionCheck out the state flags of Hawaii with the Union Jack, Mississippi with the stars and bars, New Mexico, Alabama with St. Andrew's cross, etc. Most state flags relate to their own unique history and not whether they are part of the US or not. It is all about federalism and the individual states which comprise the Union

The blue Palmetto flag of South Carolina was first adopted in January of 1861, and is therefore the first "Confederate flag". We have a welcoming committee meeting Senator Dodd today. I expect he'll see a lot of Confederate flags. We don't appreciate dam-yankees coming down here, and telling us what to do.

169 posted on 01/15/2007 6:42:15 AM PST by l8pilot
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To: kabar

PS.. To be historically correct, Georgia's current flag is the Stars and Bars, and Mississippi's flag contains the Battleflag


170 posted on 01/15/2007 6:45:28 AM PST by l8pilot
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To: Man50D

...eyp---another reason why southern democrats vote their concience and vote republican.


171 posted on 01/15/2007 6:55:45 AM PST by Celebratelife008
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To: Moose4

Thank you for the historical background.

Certainly Sen. Dodd would brush it off as irrelevant to his selfish power grab.


172 posted on 01/15/2007 6:56:19 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: All
Chris Dodd is a joke. All it'll take is one or two of the people he groped to come forward and he'll bow out.
It'll shouldn't get that far, but the Clinton opp-research team probably has them lined up, just in case.

Why do these people with such obvious skeletons think they can become president? There has to be something else behind it.
173 posted on 01/15/2007 7:01:20 AM PST by newnhdad
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To: stainlessbanner
me TOO!

i get SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SICK of DYs!

free dixie,sw

174 posted on 01/15/2007 7:19:25 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: groanup
imVho, he's a clueLESS idiot, who gives real meaning to the term: DAMNyankee.

free dixie,sw

175 posted on 01/15/2007 7:20:33 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: l8pilot
PS.. To be historically correct, Georgia's current flag is the Stars and Bars, and Mississippi's flag contains the Battleflag

Thanks. Georgia changed its state flag in 2003. No more Stars and Bars

176 posted on 01/15/2007 7:23:55 AM PST by kabar
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To: PistolPaknMama
YEP!

PPM, i look forward to it!

now i have to find "a place to lay my weary head" for the war against THIS particularly disgusting DY!

free dixie HUGS,sw

177 posted on 01/15/2007 7:25:58 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: PistolPaknMama
YEP!

PPM, i look forward to it!

now i have to find "a place to lay my weary head" for the war against THIS particularly disgusting DY!

free dixie HUGS,sw

178 posted on 01/15/2007 7:26:03 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: PistolPaknMama
YEP!

PPM, i look forward to it!

now i have to find "a place to lay my weary head" for the war against THIS particularly disgusting DY!

free dixie HUGS,sw

179 posted on 01/15/2007 7:26:06 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

"Dodd is a fricking jackass."

and he is planning on running for president on the dems ticket?


180 posted on 01/15/2007 7:27:22 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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