****** DEAN CONFEDERATE FLAG THREAD #1 ****** [View All]

[Skinner]

I am aware that my title breaks the GD rules. I am making the title very prominent because it is the only GD thread about this topic.

Apparently things got pretty ugly around here last night. I have temporarily decided to lock all of the Dean/Confederate flag threads that get started in the General Discussion forum, in an effort to get people to chill out. If you wish to discuss the issue in the General Discussion Forum, you must do so in this thread. I expect anyone who wishes to discuss this to do so in an adult manner. This restriction is for the General Discussion Forum only.

Late today, if the behavior improves, I will remove this temporary restriction.

ON EDIT: I have posted a poll about this issue. It is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=634098

Skinner
DU Admin

Howard Dean's Comment Sparks Iowa Dust-Up

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20031101/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_2004

WASHINGTON - A comment by Howard Dean about Confederate flags and pickup trucks has embroiled the leading Democrats in Iowa's presidential caucuses in a name-calling donnybrook.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," the former Vermont governor was quoted as saying in Saturday's Des Moines Register. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."

Dean's campaign said Saturday that Dean was intending to encourage the return of Southern voters who have abandoned the Democrats for decades but are disaffected with the Republicans.

Two Democrat rivals competing against Dean in Iowa's leadoff Jan. 19 caucuses saw the comment differently.

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