McCain stands by rebel flag stance

Associated Press

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he still opposes flying the Confederate flag atop the state capitol in South Carolina.

The issue became a hot debate issue in the 2000 presidential contest, and the flag was eventually taken down and placed elsewhere on statehouse grounds.

Protesters waved rebel flags today as McCain's bus procession arrived for events in Greenville and Spartanburg. Some passed out literature recalling McCain's push for the flag to be removed.

A questioner confronted McCain about the issue today as the candidate spoke in front of supporters, saying he believed McCain's position was wrong.

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A little more at link:
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7690827&nav=menu216_3

That bastard changed stances in 2000 only after the SC primary was over.

Straight talk my ass.

Saint John McCain, High Priest of the Straight Talk Express, 2000 Presidential Campaign:

When asked by a reporter how he felt about the Confederate flag during a January 12 campaign event, McCain replied: "Personally, I see the flag as symbol of heritage."

The Arizona senator expressed regret for that stance on Wednesday, telling the audience of Republicans: "I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary. So I chose to compromise my principles."

"I promised to tell the truth always about my intentions and beliefs. I fell short of that standard in South Carolina," McCain said. "While my response was factually accurate, it did not answer how I personally felt about the flag."

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/19/mccain.sc/

FLIP-FLOP!!!

I thought the whole problem was that SC wanted to fly the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was never an official flag of the Confederate government and which was later used by the KKK as a symbol of racism. If SC doesn't want a fuss over this, all they have to do is fly a bona fide flag of the Confederacy--and why not the Bonny Blue flag of SC?

The Confederate battle Standard.

You know, back when I was growing up, the good church-going people I knew in South Carolina, where my mother was from, would never, ever have flown or countananced the flying of that flag. It was a ritual left to the kind of people that my maternal grandmother called "unseemly". I have this theory, based upon experience, that a lot of this Confederate Battle Standard Fetishism resulted from northerners moving south to chase jobs, and over compensating for their new surroundings.

and they come from all over. Most of them are pretending to be something that they are not, and pretending to be a cowboy has been in style for a long time.

Man they have to be some NumbNuts to go crazy over that Confederate Flag and everything it stands for