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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Ah, the candidates positions and the law?

Here are the ones who to date have been too chickenshit to take a firm position on the Confederate flag:

Rubio
Santorum
Cruz
Huckabee
Jindal
Carson
Fiorina

Some, like Jindal, aren't even willing to admit Dylann Roof's massacre of 9 blacks was racially motivated.[/quote]

What's a firm position to you? That it's racist? That it's not? That it's history? That it's the flag of the KKK?

It seems you simply want a parrot of your particular beliefs, otherwise they are 'chickenshit'. [/quote]

Taking ANY POSITION AT ALL would be "firm" - that's something none of them have done...  Just mealy-mouthed wishy washy stuff like "It's up to South Carolina" as though they have zero personal opinion on it, or "They should do the right thing" - while not telling us what they think "the right thing" is...

Really zero leadership or courage among any of the candidates in that list...  :roll:

Most of the other GOP candidates weren't much better, most of them waited for Nikki Haley to say something first.  No opinion?  None whatsoever?  You needed Nikki Haley to make up your mind for you?[/quote]

Saying it's a state's issue is indeed a firm answer. It's also a correct one.[/quote]

South Carolina was also the first state to secede from the United States of America.  I guess you evidently must hate the USA too.[/quote]

Contrary to Lincoln's position that it was, secession wasn't against the law. The SCOTUS didn't rule on it until 1869. Slavery was an abomination...but so many have little to limited, and even no knowledge, about what was and was not during that time.[/quote]

[b]The fact that SCOTUS ruled on it in 1869 does not make it legal in 1860.[/b]  And frankly, Fort Sumter made it a war, secession or not.[/quote]

It isn't that simple. To really understand history you have to have an understanding of the time. And there is no way I can possibly explain the ruling in 1869, what it was about and the fact that the original 13 states, among other aspects, had been called by Jefferson...free and independent states. States rights was a powerful thing then and to understand that one has to go back to their Declaration of Independence and subsequent fear of their right to self determination being taken away by a powerful central government.[/quote]

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