Former Clinton Advisor: Hillary ‘Absolutely’ Has to Answer for Arkansas’ Confederate Flag

Appearing on CNN’s New Day, former Clinton advisor Paul Begala said that Hillary Clinton “absolutely” had to answer for her husband’s embrace of Confederate symbols as Governor of Arkansas.

“The Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign comes out and says, as she said back in 2007, ‘I don’t like the Confederate flag, you should take it down,'” host Chris Cuomo noted. “Does she have to answer for her time as first lady in Arkansas with Bill standing by the Arkansas flag proudly when it, too, is said to borrow from the Confederate symbology?”

“Well sure, absolutely,” Begala responded. “Times change, circumstances change.”

The Confederate image in the Arkansas flag is not as blatant as other states’ (such as Mississippi). But in 1987, Bill Clinton signed a bill designating that a blue star added to the flag was in honor of Arkansas’ Confederate past.

Watch, via CNN:

[h/t Weekly Standard]

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