Thursday, June 12, 2008



VP Favorite Jim Webb Outed As Confederate Sympathizer

We read:
"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.

Source

Typical Leftist hypocrisy. What's hate speech for you is OK for me.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This one I don't see as hypocrocy. This is more of a let's through dirt contest. Even though the mud mirrored his own thoughts he used the information to make another look bad. Typical campaign tactics in the US. But, his party sheep will find a way to misinterpret this information.

maverikamerican.com

Anonymous said...

A lot of knowledgeable people agree with the essence of what Webb said, but it is disaster politically to put it in writing.

Anonymous said...

Hello Good Gentles All!

I am not sure it really matters.

Webb is a Democrat.

If the press and Democrat party can overlook 'Sheets' Byrd, Cleagle in the KKK and filibusterer of the civil rights act...

If the press and Democrat party can overlook a woman killing dipsomanic from MA whose idea of a good time is groping the staff and pounding down scotch...

If the press and Democrat party can overlook the outright perjury, under oath, in a court of law by a cigar abusing, disbarred, adulterous, reprobate...

I am sure Jim Webb has nothing to fear from the press or his fellow Democrats. It seems to me all he has to do is fondle an intern and knock back a few shooters and he'll be one of the boys.

Pax,

InFides

Anonymous said...

Anon #2
That's why it was called the war of northern aggression.