From the faux-outrage article, I was expecting this:
Posted on 11/20/2018 1:49:02 PM PST by Mariner
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith smilingly posed for a photo in 2014 while wearing a Confederate cap and holding a rifle, then put the image on her Facebook page with the words "Mississippi history at its best!"
That image, taken at a Mississippi museum, resurfaced Tuesday as AT&T, Leidos and Walmart joined two other companies, Union Pacific and Boston Scientific, in asking Hyde-Smith, a Republican, to return campaign contributions because of controversy over her recent jest about being willing to attend a public "hanging."
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There are more racists in Boston than there is in Birmingham.
cnbc is just being cnbc. the OP is being a sh*t disturber.
Sorry, Correction Required....we the POTUS, Trump GOP “Deplorables” own the Executive branch, The U.S. Senate and the Federal Judiciary. The Democrats own the House...maybe...we shall see!!! Was not so “BLUE” after all!!!
BIg deal. She was touring a museum!
I voted for Chris McDaniels...I thought Cindy was a RINO and she may be.
But I’m beginning to love this woman!
She is not obligated to return a cent. Keep every nickle Senator.
follow chernow’s “hamilton” up with mccullough’s “john adams”. trust me on this one.
Thanks for the photo. I had a friend who was a reenactor. Didn’t mean he supported slavery or wanted a big federal government - depending on what side he was on in a given reenactment!
My great-grandfather fought for the North (Indiana). He named one of his sons after Robert E Lee. Heck, two generations later, I was named after him! I find much to admire about Nathan Bedford Forrest without excusing slave trading, his violent temper, etc. I also find much to admire in Gen Sherman. Yegads!
Thinking people can admire folks without wanting to imitate everything about them. Soldiers on both sides often wrote with admiration about the courage of the other side. Or specific generals, for specific reasons.
This sort of anti-history bigotry pushed by anti-American leftist assholes pisses me off. “Mississippi history at its best!” - works for me. And it would have worked for my great-grandfather, even though he fought for the North for 4 years...then came home and, as I said, named his next son “Robert Lee”!
The Disaster had been looming for over a decade before Sumter. John C. Calhoun was the intellectual father of secessionist thought.
“The South chose a path of violent secession and lost.”
Except for the “lost” part, it sounds like the Founding Fathers.
Yep, and the Mexican War only made matters worse.
From the faux-outrage article, I was expecting this:
Now in the truest sense, I have no dog in this fight (my ancestors immigrated to the US after the Civil War). However, I am from the North (PA). The whole story is much more complex than you would make it out to be—there were mixed motives all around, with some of the "villains" having their moments of decency and honor, and some of the "heroes" having their moments of treachery and inhumanity.
Lincoln certainly had the right to see both Davis and Lee hanged... but reconciling a broken nation required the magnanimity of welcoming them back as brothers and fellow Americans—from Lee and Davis all the way down to every ordinary farmer who donned the Confederate gray. Lincoln let them keep a shred of their dignity even in defeat. Lincoln's magnanimity allows us to see him as one of the great leaders of history (and allows us to overlook some of his more unfortunate views/decisions, such as the suspension of habeas corpus in Maryland and his racism toward blacks).
Rubbing a loss into the losers' faces rarely endears them to the winners, and more often than not, leads the former losers to rise up again (and if you need an example, look at the way the Germans were shamed by the French actions in the Rhone Valley following WWI, and how that contributed to the rise of Hitler). Hanging Davis and Lee would have made some folks feel better for a time, but it would have run at cross-purposes to Lincoln's primary goal: preserving the Union. That is far more than mere "political expediency."
Finally, If I were visiting the Jefferson Davis museum, even I would wear the hat. The haters need to get over themselves.
Well and succinctly said.
Cindy is a RINO, but she’s worlds better than Espy who is a flat out crook. She’s being Kavanaughed with the public hanging comment, there was absolutely nothing racial about her comment but it’s being portrayed as such by the media. The manufactured outrage over the pictures at Beauvoir are ridiculous. Beauvoir is a museum and a very good one at that, everyone should see it if they’re in Biloxi no matter what their color or political persuasion.
She could make a comment about macaroni and cheese being good and she’d be deemed a racist for it. There’s no avoiding it with democrats these days, the racist label is 98% of their campaign strategy.
My only Civil War comment and I will make no others.
The South took the right principle and applied it wrongly & paid dearly!
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