Flag waving leftys:
On at least one issue, Wesley Clark turns out to be to the right of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Boston Globe reports the erstwhile general "said yesterday he would support a constitutional amendment that outlawed desecration of the American flag":
It was the first time Clark had voiced a public opinion on the proposed amendment, and it was news to some of his aides--who quickly said the position was an emotional response.
"The flag is something that is very deep and personal to him, as he has led men into battle and combat under the flag," said Chris Lehane, a Clark communications strategist. . . .
Matt Bennett, Clark's communications director, said Clark saw flag-burning as a "very, very, very particularized form of dissent that he simply can't abide. I guess he is carving out a little bit, but not very much. For the most part he is a very strong proponent of civil liberties."
John Kerry, however, thinks flag-burners should be left to face vigilante justice. "If I saw someone burning the flag, I'd punch them in the mouth because I love that flag," the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, tells the Globe through a spokesman. "But the Constitution I fought for preserves the right of free expression."
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