Hillary Clinton and The South Carolina Flag Controversy

I will readily admit that it seems such an anachronism for South Carolina to display the rebel flag atop its State House. Likewise I can see how candidates can use the flag for political purposes, it is such a cheap target. But Hillary Clinton takes the Hypocrisy cake with these comments,

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.

via Breitbart.

If you are searching for a word to describe this stance, hypocrisy would be one. Clinton's hypocrisy apparently knows no bounds. The theory of uniting under one flag in a time of war is simply laughable given that less than 48 hours earlier she voted in the Senate in favor of debating a cowardly non-binding resolution of dissatisfaction with the President. That vote and position, in itself, is a reversal of her 2002 position in favor of the use of military force in Iraq. The concept of uniting behind one flag in a time of war is as alien to Hilary Clinton as reading is to a dog. She has made political hay out of her "opposition" and "dissatisfaction" with the course of the war as President Bush has led it. I can forgive a fair amount of hyperbole in a presidential election, but I draw the line at hypocrisy.

At the same time, Hilary Clinton's hypocrisy extnds to using the rebel flag for political purposes. Clinton doesn't want the flag to be removed, that would take away her wedge she needs to appeal to black voters in the conservative bastion of Sout Carolina. Hilary Clinton's standard appeal is to use race as a divider, not a uniter. So by asking for the flag to be removed, Clinton simply mouths platitudes she thinks blacks want to hear. What she should be talking about is education, or taxes or anything else that really matters. Does the flag smack of an unpleasant past, sure, but most people, including the blacks of South Carolina, have real world problems they want elected leaders to address. After those are addressed, maybe talking about a rag would be worth the time and trouble.