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Austria's electoral support of the Freedom Party and South Carolina's flying of the Confederate flag have led both to be vilified. This vilification has been successful, as Jorgen Haider has resigned and the rebel flag will soon be furled in Columbia...
...than a Southern phenomenon and a lasting vestige of the Confederacy, we will never heal our national wounds. Indeed, she seems to have far less racial problems than most northern cities where racial tension often erupts into violence. We have had no police shootings in Charleston over the Confederate flag issue, no racial warfare--merely dialogue and compromise. Instead of vilifying South Carolina, perhaps we should take work out our problems through words and not bullets and hate...
George W. Bush has long insisted that his attempts to be both "compassionate" and "conservative" are not diametrically opposed. But the South Carolina statehouse Confederate flag issue has forced the Texas governor onto a high wire between the two camps, as he tries to keep the conservative base he built in the primaries while wooing compassionate swing voters. In his primary runoff against John McCain, Bush said it was up to the state to decide whether to keep the controversial banner (which is widely seen as an emblem of white supremacy) atop its capitol building, and refused to take...
...ready to follow McCain's authenticity tack into the public's hearts. While the Arizona senator wears such "honesty" well, it could be seen as hypocritical coming from Bush, who has repeatedly attacked Al Gore as poll-driven and without conviction. On Thursday, Bush reaffirmed his position that the flag is a state issue. Now he finds himself trapped between states' rights purists and moral purists, between presenting himself as a man of conviction and bending to public opinion, and between his vision of an expanded federal government and a strong position on state sovereignty. "For Bush, the challenge...
...decay of the country was wrong. He's therefore long held that it's the responsibility of leaders to speak out against moral wrongs. So there seems to be a contradiction between his saying leaders should stand up for what's right and not taking a stance on the flag issue. This could certainly hurt him with African-American voters, but more importantly, it has the potential to hurt him with independent and suburban voters who tend to notice issues of tolerance...