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.RedState reported on Webb's confederate problem back in 2006.
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.
“Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery,” he said. “Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in the North before the war — just as overt patriotism is today — but it was tempered by a strong belief that state sovereignty existed prior to the Constitution and that it had never been surrendered.”
Webb expanded on his sentiments in his well-received 2004 book, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America,” which portrays the Southern cause as at least understandable, if not wholly laudable.
BG found Webb's remarks at the Confederate Memorial in 1990-- which was not his first visit there.
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ReplyDeletea dem a con symp, say it ain't so!!
G-D Ameri-K-K-K!!
one of my favorite links..
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
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Well on this score, I'm with Webb. The Left worships Lincoln the tyrant while excoriating Bush. Heh. Compare the Patriot Act they take as evidence of Bushitler's fascism with Lincoln's jailing of NORTHERN dissenters -- and so much more.
ReplyDeleteIf we held our state governments accountable instead of ignoring their willing passing of the buck to Washington on almost everything of importance, maybe the Republic would be working right again.
Test question: When was the last time you saw anyone angry enough at their state to burn a STATE flag?
Think about that for all of one minute.
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ReplyDeletetoo funny!!
VA Senator Jim Webb & The Stonewall Brigade
[The original "Stonewall Brigade" was led by Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.]
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ReplyDeleteRemarks of James Webb at the Confederate Memorial 1990
[Perhaps all of us might reread the writings of Alexander Stephens, a brilliant attorney who opposed secession but then became Vice President of the Confederacy, making a convincing legal argument that the constitutional compact was terminable. And who wryly commented at the outset of the war that "the North today presents the spectacle of a free people having gone to war to make freemen of slaves, while all they have as yet attained is to make slaves of themselves."]
hmm, that must be the Memorial mentioned here (which i had never hard of until i read the article)..
[Indeed, I have a videotape of black historian, Dr. Edward Smith of American University in Washington D.C., in which he points out that at least 90,000 blacks served under arms in the Confederate armies. This long ignored, or silently suppressed fact is only now beginning to reach the public where it can help to alter our perceptions of the realities which existed in the Old South. It might be worth noting that in the Southern armies, black and white men were not segregated as they were in the Northern armies. They fought side by side with fellow Southerners. In support of this fact, perhaps you are not aware that the first military monument in Washington D.C. honoring black soldiers is in Arlington National Cemetery near the Custis-Lee Mansion. Erected in 1914 by Moses Ezekial, a Jewish Confederate who wanted to correctly portray the racial realities in the Southern armies, it clearly shows a black soldier marching in step with his white comrades in arms. It further portrays the trust that existed between them by depicting a black woman receiving a white soldier's child for protection as he is going off to war. Somehow, this Confederate monument is never pointed out on the usual tours that you'll get up there. Does anyone think they might know why?]
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Webb's "confederate problem" is only a problem outside of the South. Southerners get it.
ReplyDeleteObama and Webb: Two loose cannons...always going off half-cocked.
ReplyDeleteI'm with rasqual and Webb (although I've despised Webb since he exhibited execrable manners when he refused to shake the President's hand). Many of us have ancestors who fought for the South. We understand.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Reb Webb.
ReplyDeleteSoutherns know the real reason for the war and it is not what has been taught in school. Slavery was a very small part of it.
ReplyDeleteJMF