Huckabee on states’ rights
Posted by Moonage on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race
I gotta score one for Huckabee today. On the issue of the Confederate flag in South Carolina:
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, told supporters Thursday in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
“In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell ‘em what to do with the pole, that’s what we’d do,” Huckabee said.
Now, when the flag was an issue, a lot of candidates, including Biden, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, didn’t get it. They felt compelled to infer their opinions on another state. That’s not good for a president. These are united states, not one centralized government. If South Carolina wants the Confederate flag, it’s not the President’s concern whether they like it or not. McCain pretty much ended his campaign on this issue four years ago, he learned his lesson apparently. To date, I can’t see where any of the other previous campaigners have. Of the newbies, I only know Huckabee’s response was worth remembering. Score one for Mike as far as I’m concerned.
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