Pandermonium: Hillary weighs in on Confederate flag ‘issue’ in SC
On the heels of Dem presidential contender Senator Obama’s SC visit, another presidential hopeful – Senator Hillary Clinton – was in Columbia, SC yesterday pandering to about 1,500 people at Allen University. The university, as the AP describes it, is an historically black college. One ‘issue’ Senator Clinton brought up was the Confederate flag, which has been the subject of ongoing controversy in SC to the point that the NAACP’s long-standing boycott on SC is still in effect. Hillary is against the flag being displayed on Statehouse grounds (it used to be displayed on the Statehouse dome), and one of the reasons she’s against it will surprise you: