January 11, 2003
DICK GEPHARDT'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY:
Gephardt sidesteps flag issue on S.C. visit (LEE BANDY, Jan. 11, 2003, The State, SC)Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt declined Friday to take sides in the dispute over the display of the Confederate battle flag on the State House grounds. [...]"I can well understand the concern about the flag issue that the NAACP has," Gephardt said in an interview Friday during a visit to Columbia.
"And I can understand why they want to assert this position. It is troubling to people here who have grown up in this state_.?.?._to feel that there still is this kind of loyalty to a symbol."
As we all know, George W. Bush's refusal to take a stand on the flag issue was one of those coded messages he sent to his racist white base. Presumably, we're in for a slew of stories about how Dick Gephardt is borrowing the codebook. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 11, 2003 2:00 PM
There is no political party with a monopoly on racists in South Carolina. The Dixiecrat spirit is alive and well in the diminutive state.
Posted by: RB at January 11, 2003 5:33 PMHey. Occasionally you get one - you have a good point here.
Gephardt has no eyebrows and no balls.
The comment above makes no sense, however. Either Gephardt and Bush are racists or they're not. The answer is "not." They are just both unprincipled.
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Posted by: oj at January 12, 2003 4:35 AM