The Confederate flag that is!


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nati...syndication=rss

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When artist John Sims sees the Confederate flag, he sees "visual terrorism" and a symbol of a racist past. When Robert Hurst sees the flag, he is filled with pride as the descendant of a soldier who fought for the South during the Civil War.

Their differences have flared into a war of words, catching a local museum in the middle.

Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science last week and saw an exhibit by Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag."

I wish it was illegal to spam a politics forum with news links and not even bother to offer your opinion on the thread that you started.

YAAAAWN.

Big deal. Remember these are the same people who can't figure out a simple ballot

In Misourri it's illegal for a woman to drive a car unless a man walks in front of her waving an orange flag.

Every state has weird old laws on the books. FL's Confederate Flag law probably dates back 150 years and was just never repealed, I'm guessing.

Yes, but fortunately we have lots of rich liberals in NY and CA willing to tell us what the 'intent' was of those ignorant almost-voters in Florida.

Well, I think we can safely assume that the Jewish vote given to Pat Buchanan were a mistake

Yeah, that's how democracy should work. Don't count votes, just "safely assume" what they should be.

"I assume" makes an ass out of unelected Presidents and me the old saying goes.

I also think Democracy works best when people aren't responsible for actually taking the time to learn how to vote before voting. Better to encourage everyone to just do whatever they want with the ballot and try to figure it all out later. Responsibility is hard.

Or we could just do what CBS News did on election day in 2000 and declare a winner hours before the end of voting just based on who we want to win.

Are you saying in Florida they check your relegion before you vote?

Or even better: define "vote" before anyone casts one.

Lost in the circus around the 2000 election was that Florida election guidelines never stated what was and was not a "vote". One statement in Florida law to the effect that a validly cast vote was a single hole per electoral race punched clearly but not necessarily cleanly through the ballot, and you never have any controversy over discerning the intent of the voter via a dimpled ballot.

And then, of course, how do they solve it? Do they add a clear, concise, unambiguous definition of "vote" to the electoral bylaws? No...every district in the friggin' union has to go out and spend a shitload of money on a technological solution that complicates rather than simplifies the process. !@#$ing brilliant!

Democracy works a lot better when it's not designed to fail, basically.