Edwards held a fundraiser at a Confederate site in SC earlier this year

Edwards plans campaign meeting at Confederate site

From John Mercurio
CNN Washington

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, plans to meet with supporters of his presidential bid at a Confederate site in South Carolina Saturday -- a move his office insists does not conflict with his aggressive pitch for African-American support nor his agreement to follow the NAACP's economic boycott of the state.

The meeting, sponsored by the South Carolina Democratic Leadership Council, is scheduled to take place in Charleston at the William Aiken House, named for a man who was once the South's largest slaveholder.

Aiken, a prominent businessman, supported the Confederate army by donating supplies and funding. He also allowed Confederate generals to use his house as a temporary headquarters during the Civil War.

An Edwards spokeswoman said criticism of the senator's meeting would be "ridiculous."

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/07/edwards.campaign/

nevermind.

If that's the best you can do...

It was splashed across the front of the Drudge Report, with big sirens, in red, as if WW-fuckin'-III had broken out.

Try again...

many droppings from sites like Drudge, Wingnut Daily, and other such places are ending up at DU now?

but that's besides the point…

the reason I posted this is to illustrate the fact that this fundraiser could've been made an issue with African Americans, if say 3 of the other candidates had put out press releases declaring it to be an affront to AAs to raise money in a venue that honors a slaveowner (the largest one in fact).

... the next step for his supporters is to try the same attack on other candidates.

Dean is a frontrunner in the race. If you think the other candidates aren't going to point out his weaknesses, wake up. And I'm not trying to call Dean a racist; his weakness is that his brain needs to catch up to his mouth. And I don't care how great a candidate Dean is -- that IS going to be a weakness that could bite his ass if he's up against Bush in 2004.

whatever the hell that is

I have it on good authority that any place in South Carolina that was built before 1865 is a "Confederate site."

By this (silly) standard, at least.

...that anything about the Confederate flag is insensitive! Even if you say you don't like it! You should just not bring it up or be in the building named after the guy who did all the stuff for the Confederates!

:eyes:

Good work, pruner.