Posted on 06/10/2008 4:01:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Views on Confederacy may cost Webb VP nod By DAVID MARK | 6/10/08 6:35 PM EST Text Size: Jim Webb Webb, a descendent of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s. Photo: John Shinkle
Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as they go 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 Memorial Cemetery, posted on his personal website, he lauded the rebels’ “gallantry,” which he said “is still misunderstood by most Americans.”
Webb, a descendent 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.
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People are just wound up too tight
OK. LOL!
If he was a Republican choice, every dem would be out with those quotes, running around, calling him a racist.
So I guess Strickland and Webb, two of the best choices they had, are out.
I smell a Klinton on ticket!
Bring it on!
Webb can write a hole paragraph and be called an author, he was a short timer for Reagen and his mental condition has gone down hill since he left that admin.Plus he denied us a great chance of an real candidate, all so he can go to Washington and flail about on the senate floor.
Why are you calling paragraph ahole?
Heard Mel Brooks a couple of weeks ago on the radio - he said being from New York, when he went to school at VMI - the south was the first place he learned about honor!
While I’m no Webb supporter I do agree with what is quoted here. The South had men fighting for it for many reasons, not just to perpetuate slavery as is so often portrayed.
Hell, if he was on McCain’s ticket there’d be freepers coming out of the woodwork to praise his great heritage and lauding his family who were great Americans fighting for their freedom against the evil Lincoln during the War of Northern Aggression, blah, blah, blah.
ACK.
It will be interesting to see if webb distances himself from his earlier comments or if the dhimmis preemptively kick him to the curb.
Muhahahah, oh you Misspelling Patrol Cadets, ya’ll get me everytime!
First Black President Obama will give preemptive absolution to any white person as his running mate, be they Webb or anybody else, on racial subjects. Webb’s pro-Confederacy, pro-redneck credentials are what make him attractive to the Obamaniacs - they’re a plus in this context, to bring the God-and-gun clingers home. This analysis is all wet.
Leaving aside, for the moment, that Webb isn't a Republican and that he's a jerk: If he were a Republican, you would not consider him qualified for the Vice-Presidency simply because of his ancestry?
Is that what you're saying?
So, Jim Webb being an idiot doesn’t disqualify him?
Why should this be a problem when the “dean” of senate Democrats is a retired KKK member?
He was a republican and now he’s a democrat. I dunno. Maybe he’s a republican manchurian candidate in the democrat party awaiting someone dressed up like Stonewall Jacksonn to wave a battle flag. Who knows.
He is qualified for VP because he meets the criteria as set forth in the 12th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The other crap is about people fighting a war that ended 150 years ago (and which BTW, they lost)
One wonders if they suffer from PTCS (Post Traumatic Confederacy Syndrome)
when did he retire? ;)
I certainly never heard him denounce or repudiate. Must be nice playing by a different set of rules.
Dixie ping
If Obama is ekected can I secede?
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