VP Favorite Jim Webb Outed As Confederate Sympathizer
Posted on June 11, 2008
Excerpt:
“What goes around comes around. The Webb Campaign dug up confederate stories on Senator George Allen in the 2006 Virginia senatorial race. Liberal Webb supporters even created T-shirts to attack Senator George “Felix” Allen on his supposed confederate leanings. But, today it came back to haunt him. The Politico reported on Senator Webb’s rebel roots:
“Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as it goes about the business of scouring the backgrounds of possible running mates. But it’s unlikely they’ll find one so curious as Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb’s affinity for the cause of the Confederacy.
Webb is no mere student of the Civil War era. He’s an author, too, and he’s left a trail of writings and statements about one of the rawest and most sensitive topics in American history.
He has suggested many times that while the Confederacy is a symbol to many of the racist legacy of slavery and segregation, for others it simply reflects Southern pride. In a June 1990 speech in front of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, posted on his personal website, he lauded the rebels’ “gallantry,” which he said “is still misunderstood by most Americans.”
Webb, a descendant of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s, and seemed to suggest that states were justified in trying to secede.
Typical Leftist hypocrisy. What’s hate speech for you is OK for me.
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Besides the slavery crap that they were going to get rid of anyway, I have a huge soft stop for the Confedercy.
As the great Gen. Robert E. Lee said “If I had believed this war was about slavery, I would have switched sides yesterday”.
But it is funny how they deal with “Democrats” when it comes to the south. It’s really sickening to say the least. The media will say “it’s their heritage” but if it’s a “Republican” he/she is a racist.
But then again, they are all in bed together. The media, the politicians, the whole thing.
I have little use for the morons on the Left. Less for the cretins who are in charge of our education system. Where in the Constitution does it allow the government to force any state to remain in the union?
More to the point the ratification of the Constitution required that three states have their right to leave the union guaranteed as part of the ratification process. Have acknowledged this right lINCOLN’S ACTIONS ARE NOTHING SHORT OF THE WORST FORM OF TRYANNY.
Try studying history and you’ll find those who are the worst criminals seek to rewrite history. The Left never stops.
“Webb, a descendant of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s, and seemed to suggest that states were justified in trying to secede.”
I agree with him. It was ‘Lincoln’s War’, or, as I like to say, ‘The War of The North’. The biggest mistake made was S.C. firing on Ft. Sumter. If the South had merely turned their back on the North, made their own way and minded their own business, the North would NEVER would have had the support to invade ‘a foreign nation’.
And the North would have made military & trade agreements (esp. for Southern cotton) instead.
The biggest bloody stain in all of this was evil of slavery. I doubt the South would have disbanded that blight upon humanity without that horrid war.
But Lincoln didn’t go to war to free slaves. It was to preserve ‘The Union’. He said as much many times. What’s more odd is the hypocrisy in it all – Robt. Lee detested slavery, and G. McClellan was a white supremacist.
Besides, that’s ancient history. A more recent and destructive gutting of State’s power and rights was the 17th amendment.
http://www.factmonster.com/askeds/17th-amendment-us-constitution.html