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Views on Confederacy may cost Webb VP nod
The Politico ^

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; dixie; obama; va2008; webb
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Typical Dem hypocrisy............
1 posted on 06/10/2008 4:01:48 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

People are just wound up too tight


2 posted on 06/10/2008 4:08:49 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: Sub-Driver

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!


3 posted on 06/10/2008 4:09:59 PM PDT by The_Republican (Conservatives are in trouble because they hate Scarlett Johanson.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


4 posted on 06/10/2008 4:10:27 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: redstateconfidential

Why are you calling paragraph ahole?


5 posted on 06/10/2008 4:11:50 PM PDT by The_Republican (Conservatives are in trouble because they hate Scarlett Johanson.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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!


6 posted on 06/10/2008 4:13:31 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


7 posted on 06/10/2008 4:13:40 PM PDT by vigilence
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


8 posted on 06/10/2008 4:14:33 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: Sub-Driver

It will be interesting to see if webb distances himself from his earlier comments or if the dhimmis preemptively kick him to the curb.


9 posted on 06/10/2008 4:17:00 PM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: vigilence
A-men! While I don't care two cents for 99% Mr. Webb's political positions, he is 100% right on this issue. He is not advocating a return to slavery, but a return to more sovereignty at the state level. Of course, the liberals have all but succeeded in tanting anything and everything about the South with slavery.
10 posted on 06/10/2008 4:20:24 PM PDT by Slick91 (“Life’s tough…it’s tougher if you’re stupid” -John Wayne)
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To: The_Republican

Muhahahah, oh you Misspelling Patrol Cadets, ya’ll get me everytime!


11 posted on 06/10/2008 4:21:56 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


12 posted on 06/10/2008 4:23:57 PM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: Sub-Driver
And if Webb's views on the Confederacy don't get him, his fiction will, eh?

“I don’t know why you’re reading that on WTOP,” Webb told host Mark Plotkin. “I think it’s a little bit inappropriate.” Plotkin was reading an excerpt from Webb’s novel “Something to Die For,” in which Webb describes a female stripper performing sexual acts with a banana. “I don’t think that’s appropriate for you to read on WTOP,” Webb said again as Plotkin finished the excerpt.

I just did an Amazon search on the passage in Webb’s book. It isn’t the least bit titillating. It’s in the context of an American in an exotic, backward, remote part of a foreign land. The penis-kissing scene baffles and bewilders the Americans. It is clearly not a “fellating.” It is not a depiction of pedophelia. It’s very obviously scene painting, and the shock and oddity of the act adds to the lead characters’ sense that they’re out-of-place.


http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/jim_webbs_dirty_books/
13 posted on 06/10/2008 4:27:56 PM PDT by flowerplough (Obama: "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal")
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To: PurpleMan
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.

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?

14 posted on 06/10/2008 4:33:43 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Sub-Driver

So, Jim Webb being an idiot doesn’t disqualify him?


15 posted on 06/10/2008 4:37:37 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Sub-Driver

Why should this be a problem when the “dean” of senate Democrats is a retired KKK member?


16 posted on 06/10/2008 4:40:29 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: okie01

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)


17 posted on 06/10/2008 4:42:39 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: pabianice

when did he retire? ;)

I certainly never heard him denounce or repudiate. Must be nice playing by a different set of rules.


18 posted on 06/10/2008 4:44:56 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: stainlessbanner

Dixie ping


19 posted on 06/10/2008 4:54:43 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Sub-Driver

If Obama is ekected can I secede?


20 posted on 06/10/2008 4:55:42 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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