Dean's view on the confed. flag statehouse?

[fujiyama]

What was his view on it? Does he believe it should come down or that it's a matter of "state's rights"? What about the confederate flag on state flags? Should those flags be redesigned?

[SahaleArm]

1. Just wait till he takes office.

Then segregation and affirmative action will fall under 'states rights':).

[LoZoccolo]

2. Hey as long as we're out telling lies.

Wait until Clark doesn't know how to hold an elected office, he just knows how to command an army, and then he goes and puts everyone under martial law and all there is to eat is rationed MREs.

[SahaleArm]

3. The smiley face is a dead giveaway.

Chill Winston:). Did you forget that Clark eats kittens?

[AP]

4. When Edwards was respecting SC boycott, Dean was saying that he had to

look into it, if memory serves.

It was one of the early reasons I didn't care for Dean, when I was still impressionable.

He seemed to be trying to make a point that he wasn't totally on board with the boycott, even though he eventually respected it (right?).

[tsipple]

5. Very Clear, Actually

Dean had the balls to tell a South Carolina audience recently that the confederate flag should not be hung from public buildings.

Numerous threads have posted the quote, so this thread is really a duplicate now.

[fujiyama]

6. OK thanks...

I just wanted to make sure Dean was onboard with this. After all even McCain later came out later and regretted he should have made that clear in the campaign.

[w4rma]

7. “I think it should come down,” he said.

North meets South: Dean woos S.C. vote

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean spent Saturday trying to convince Southern voters that a little-known and not well-funded retired physician from a small Northern state should be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president
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“When we come to the South, Democrats have got to start talking about race because the Republicans always talk about race,” he said to the South Carolina Democratic Convention. “They talk about it to try to keep people from voting, they talk about it by using divisive words like quotas, which are race-based words. In the South, we have discovered that when white voters and black voters vote together, we all make progress.”

Dean promised Democrats that he would work to ensure the African American base of the Democratic Party was not ignored. And in this state, which moved up its presidential primary date to Feb. 3, 2004 — making it the first primary in the South — he made an appeal to white voters who have long supported Republicans.

“There are 103,000 kids with no health insurance in this state and most of them are white,”he said. “What I want to say to white voters is, ‘Let’s put aside those divisive issues the Republicans always bring up and lets vote together for a better future for our children’.”

Dean said Saturday that he opposed displaying the Confederate flag at the capitol. But he said he was not honoring the NAACP’s boycott of the state after discussing the matter with African American leaders in South Carolina.

“I think it should come down,” he said.

http://rutlandherald.com/hdean/64897
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=73335