Posted on 02/16/2011 10:22:42 AM PST by Artemis Webb
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday he won't denounce a Southern heritage group's proposal for a state-issued license plate that would honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Barbour is a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate.
Questioned by reporters Tuesday after an energy speech in Jackson, Barbour said he doesn't think Mississippi legislators will approve the Forrest license plate proposed by the Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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Well just who do you wish to anoint????
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The good news about an open 2012 field is the media doesn’t know who to character assassinate first, so you can expect potshots like this until there’s a nominee.
The bad news is that they’ll have plenty of time to sharpen their knives until the eventual candidate is selected leaving not much time to correct the record and recover.
Read about NBF’s accomplishments as a General. He was an amazing man. If he had wore a blue uniform, we would have a holiday named after him.
He killed a young man in a sabre fight, the young man badly injured him. They lay next to each other in the hospital.
The young man was alone and dying. Forrest reached out and held his hand until he died. Forrest was an amazing man.
I’m more focused on the Fort Pillow situation and his membership in the KKK - putting him on a license plate in a state that is 37% black seems like a provocation to me. That’s all.
Good for you and I could not agree with you more. To hell with the pc feaks.
Ain’t nuthing wrong with the Confederate Flag, N.B. Forrest or the Confederacy! Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I do know Forrest was an organizer of the KKK that started out to be quiet benign. It was when it took a real wrong turn into a racist, abhorrent organization that Forrest got out. :)
When I first glanced at the title, I thought it was about Justin Bieber.
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From Wikipedia:
In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a “friendly speech” during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.
Not quite. But what the heck. Details are for idiots.
Sir, I would “see you” on your statement and “raise you” one level higher. Nathan Bedford Forrest was probably the best “in the saddle” General to ever breath air on this earth. Grant, by comparison, was a great general too, but he was a general that did not get out front like Forrest who killed in hand to hand combat some 29 Yankee’s during the course of the war. Add to this an elementary school education, contributing his own personal fortune to the cause he believed in and his “later on” threat to KKK’ers to “organize a company of soldiers and hunt you down myself” (or words to that effect) and the only conclusion you can come to “on the whole” is that he was indeed a one of a kind man. Sadly, most of us recognize that God simply doesn’t make ANY Nathan Bedford Forrest’s anymore.
I’d rank him as better on cavalry than any other civil war general, north or south. He was a remarkable man and deserves to be commemorated.
All time? I don’t know enough about Pershing or whether there were tank commanders on the American side on par with Guderian.
If you have anything to add to ameliorate this, hop on.
Otherwise keep your idiotic details to yourself then!
83 years later, Buckner's son was commanding the US forces on Okinawa when he was killed in the closing days of the battle of Okinawa.
Nor should he.
Good for him. I have seen and read stories about all kinds of tags. If people want to buy these, then that is their right. No one is going to force others to buy them. Other states need to stay put of it. It is none of their business!!!!
Heck, with Barbour being a big lobbyist for the Mexicans, I’m surprised he doesn’t sport a Mexican license plate, or at least their flag.
What Haley Barbour Didn’t Tell Fox News - He Lobbied for Amnesty for Illegals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2673836/posts
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Yeah and Sarah Palin supported the "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it. Lawyers defend murderers but then might become prosecutors of murderers. Barbour was running a business, or are you against business? Things change.
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