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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj AT intrex.net>]

WF Smith wrote:

> > Proud of suckerheads in South Carolina? At least McCain will
> > leave the flag flying on the capitol grounds
> > in recognition of the evil of the war of northern aggression.
> > Like it or not...

> I have to admit I'm intrigued by this statement. For some reason you are
> referring to the Confederate Battle Flag that flies on the SC State Capitol
> grounds.
>
> Are you somehow under the misguided perception that said flag is a Federal
> issue? As a South Carolina resident I don't care one whit what Obama or
> Hillary or McCain think of it.

Of course it is not a federal issue but folks like Biden made it a campaign issue saying that it "should be taken 
elsewhere". I just thought that was rather disingenuous. I thought I heard McCain say that it _was not_ a federal issue 
and would not bring it up, i.e. leave it to South Carolinians to decide. I think it would be a nice gesture to the
decent, nonracist, traditional people in the south with roots in the Confederacy to leave it flying, in defiance of the 
ultra radical extremist politically correct left leaning liberal loonz who would insist that the Rebel flag is a symbol 
of slavery, which in one obvious sense it is and in another is completely not. Honor history and leave it flying as a 
reminder of the fact that slavery actually heppened in the USA and in honor of the people who took pride in their 
homeland and not in the disgrace that was the slavery that happened there. The northern states can share equal blame 
with the southern states for the slavery era. It was absolutely unbelievable that it was ever allowed to happen as the 
same is true of the abuse of the Irish during the potato famine, and the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese, Pol Pot's 
regime, Nazi Germany, genocide in Russia, the Spanish Civil War, the war in Central and South America in the latter half 
ot the last century and on and on.