New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who insisted last year that Democrats were just as patriotic as Republicans, said Wednesday that she's against a Constitutional amendment to ban the burning of the American flag.
"I support federal legislation that would outlaw flag desecration, much like laws that currently prohibit the burning of crosses, but I don't believe a constitutional amendment is the answer," Clinton said last night, in a statement issued after the House passed the anti-flag burning amendment yesterday by an overwhelming margin of 258 to 130.
By opposing protecting the American flag with a constitutional amendment, Clinton is catering to the more radical wing of her party, whose support she'll need to win the 2008 presidential nomination.
However, by bucking the popular measure, the former first lady risks resurrecting charges about her own radical past during the 1970s, when she protested the Vietnam war and defended the Black Panthers.
In the just-released book, "The Truth About Hillary," for instance, author Ed Klein reports that Clinton was a driving force behind the radical leftwing "The Yale Review of Law and Social Action" at grad school.
Hillary "co-edited articles that focused on the violence-prone Black Panthers and the ongoing trial of several Panthers for the torture-murder of their colleague, Alex Rackley," Klein says.
Accompanying a companion article - "a cartoon depicting the police as oinking, hairy, snot-nosed pigs."
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