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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

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81 posted on 01/14/2007 7:56:49 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Breaking: Sen. Dodd Calls for the Removal of Grits from Southern Breakfast Menus

thems fight'n words

82 posted on 01/14/2007 7:58:32 PM PST by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: vetvetdoug
The Northern Army took anything that wasn't nailed down here

Includin' spoons

83 posted on 01/14/2007 7:58:58 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
"senator dodd" is an IDIOT, as well as a DAMNyankee HATER.

believe ANYTHING he says at your peril.

free dixie,sw

84 posted on 01/14/2007 8:00:49 PM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie

Hello Stand


85 posted on 01/14/2007 8:01:49 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade ("Modern, bureaucratic, unionized education is a form of intellectual child abuse. " NEWT GINGRICH)
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To: conservativeinferno

South Carolina should consider articles of secession. I will move there if they do.


86 posted on 01/14/2007 8:01:56 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: stainlessbanner

SB, you're back. Good!


87 posted on 01/14/2007 8:02:30 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: stand watie

Even'n friend. Wish'n they would not meddle in other states affairs.


88 posted on 01/14/2007 8:04:04 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: groanup

Sorry - I was short on time for a short spell. I'll get back on it, double time, friend!


89 posted on 01/14/2007 8:05:03 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stand watie

Dodd is doing this why? I really don't have a clue. Obviously he can't win the South and you have to win it to win the presidency. Screw him and his cowboy boots. Why do any of us care whether Dodd even has a piss pot?


90 posted on 01/14/2007 8:05:04 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: stainlessbanner

God bless you. Or as my grandmammas used to say: bless your heart.


91 posted on 01/14/2007 8:06:00 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
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To: Celebratelife008

That BASTARD needs to read up on his history, and stay out of the south (which IMO is more integrated than the "North"), I am not arguing the ages old civil war debate, but down south most people recognize the Confederate flag as one of heritage/pride just as they realize the evils of pre-civil war slavery!

Dodd is an IDIOT, and noone from CT will EVER WIN SC!! (And I'm from Indiana ;))!


92 posted on 01/14/2007 8:06:24 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: billbears
Give a damn yankee an inch, they take a mile.

Don't lump this Yankee in with Senator Dudd.
93 posted on 01/14/2007 8:08:35 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
"I call for the removal of Dodd from South Carolina."

I'm for that as long as you don't send him back to Connecticut.
94 posted on 01/14/2007 8:10:15 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: conservativeinferno

Dodd should shut up. As if the Irish ever gave a flip about blacks--in Connecticut or anywhere else.


95 posted on 01/14/2007 8:12:59 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Man50D

"Don't lump this Yankee in with Senator Dudd."

Is the good senator of English descent? To the country folk of England, to "dodd" is to shear sheep, and a dodman is a snail.


96 posted on 01/14/2007 8:14:10 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: sh0tgun willie

PING


97 posted on 01/14/2007 8:15:21 PM PST by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: smalltownslick

Quick history lesson from somebody who used to work five blocks from there...

The South Carolina General Assembly voted in the early 1960s to fly the Confederate Naval Jack (the rectangular St. Andrew's Cross that's commonly referred to as the "Confederate flag") on top of the Statehouse dome, under the US and SC flags. (Trivia--the man who signed this bill into law, by the way, was Governor ERNEST "FRITZ" HOLLINGS, DEMOCRAT. That's generally conveniently forgotten by the Democratic race pimps.)

Anyway. The flag flew up there on top of the Statehouse dome for over 30 years until the NAACP started making noise. The Republican governor at the time, David "Weaseley" Beasley, first stated that the flag was going to stay on the dome, and then did a 180 and came out for taking it down. The flip-flop cost him his job in the 1998 election and put a Democrat, Jim Hodges, in the Governor's office.

Hodges ended up working out a compromise with black legislators and the NAACP where the flag would come down off the dome, and an Army of Northern Virginia battle standard (the square St. Andrew's Cross flag that's shown in a picture in this thread) would be erected behind the existing Confederate Soldiers Memorial on the Statehouse grounds, which is the obelisk in the picture. That obelisk stands in the center of downtown Columbia, at Gervais and Main Streets, and has been there since well before 1900. An African-American monument would also be constructed on the Statehouse grounds, and indeed, it's there now.

The NAACP had agreed to this compromise. All of a sudden, sensing weakness, they reversed themselves and decided to "boycott" the state. Various liberal-minded groups like the Democratic Party and the NCAA have gone along with them, but in the end, the economic impact has been negligible. The only people that have been hurt by this have been...wait for it...black business owners, primarily in the Lowcountry, who specialized in tours of the black history down there (the Gullah culture, which is absolutely fascinating).

So the flag that you see is not one of the three actual political flags of the CSA. It was the battle flag of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, where thousands of South Carolinians fought and died. It flies behind a memorial to dead Confederate soldiers that's been in the same spot for around 125 years. There are no Confederate flags flying over any of the governmental buildings in South Carolina that I'm aware of. It's a soldier's flag at a soldier's monument.

Understand that since it's been in place, the forces of tolerance and diversity have tried to burn that flag twice and tear down the flagpole at least once, have tried their hardest to economically throttle an entire state's tourism industry (and failed miserably), and have in general used that flag as a bludgeon to try and paint an entire racially diverse state as some sort of 1960s throwback, which is patently false. And now we have Chris "Waitress Sandwich" Dodd attempting to tell the good people of South Carolina what they can and can't put on their own Statehouse grounds as a memorial. Please forgive South Carolinians if they don't take too kindly to it.

}:-)4


98 posted on 01/14/2007 8:16:34 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: RegulatorCountry

let's have a Constitional convention to make a motion to throw out all Anti-American Idiots like DODD to FRANCE: YOU W/ME?


99 posted on 01/14/2007 8:18:03 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: stainlessbanner

"DixiePing"

Could you hook me up with that? Thanks.


100 posted on 01/14/2007 8:18:30 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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