It's about time they remove that symbol of racial superiorit

According to a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, the button was not an official campaign item.

“I’ve never seen these buttons,” Craig Smith [said]. “Don’t have them, haven’t seen them.”

Smith oversaw state operations for Mr. Clinton’s campaign in 1992, before moving on to work in the Clinton White House. Among his responsibilities on the trail was allocating staff to states and sending out campaign materials, like house party kits, t-shirts, yard signs and buttons, nationwide. Every item, he said, had to be made in the United States by union workers.

“If it didn’t have a union bug, we weren’t making them,” he said, “and we definitely weren’t handing them out.”

The button in question, and others featuring similar designs for sale or sold on eBay, does not show any indication of being union-made.

Smith said he thought the buttons were likely made by someone unaffiliated with the campaign looking to make a buck. He said if it had been pitched to him, it wouldn’t have gotten past his desk.

“Not appropriate then,” he said, “and not appropriate now.”

EdwardT/Sketch,

Based on a few of your recent posts, it seems that you have no issue with the Confederate flag and disagree with those those who do...

EdwardT, you seem to be a fan of the Confederate flag, or at least reluctant to denounce it.

Care to tell us why?

I see, same ole schtick from you, too.

How about offering up those not cut and dried reasons to keep the rebel flag flying. Put your money where your mouth is? I mean, since you feel the need to represent and all that.

DMT

It is altogether fitting that legislators and governors of the abolitionist party would be removing the last vestige of the party of the party of institutional racism's battle flag.

. My issue is with the intolerance/bigotry being spewed by so many in this and the Charleston thread. It's the same old song. Those on the left, who supposedly support tolerance of opinions, treat anyone who disagrees with them as a ignorant, low-life turd. There's no room for an honest exchange. It's simply "You're wrong. You suck! I really like the Confederate traitor shtick. That's new one.

It's the "same old song" and "that's a new one" in the same paragraph. You don't even know what you are whining about, do you?

My post didn't say "you're wrong" or "you suck" it asked you to explain your position. Make an argument.

As for the Confederate traitor shtick, can you explain to us how attacking the US military is not treason?

Carry on with the butthurt.