Biden Says Confederate Flag Should Be Removed
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Biden, said yesterday that he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds.
The comments by the senator from Delaware on a day of events celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy came as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama of Illinois, evoked the memory of the slain civil rights leader.
“As I recall, Dr. King wasn’t hanging out in Manhattan, Dr. King wasn’t hanging out in Beverly Hills,” Mr. Obama told a King remembrance service in an economically depressed Chicago suburb.
Introducing Mr. Obama, the Reverend Jesse Jackson told a crowd at the annual King scholarship breakfast, “it’s a long, nonstop line between the march in Selma in 1965 and the inauguration in Washington in 2009.”
Screaming admirers managed to get Mr. Obama’s autograph after he advocated removing troops from Iraq, rebuilding struggling areas and increasing civic activism and calling on people, especially fathers, to be better parents.
