Discussion: Bush: Problem With Confederate Flag Is 'What It Began To Represent Later'

system1 · December 23, 2015, 9:04pm

Discussion for article #244090

fargo116 · December 23, 2015, 9:07pm

Yeah! There was no problem with it back in the 19th Century! We just shot 'em! You know, the Donald Trump Solution.

egyptsteve · December 23, 2015, 9:09pm

Right, no problem with slavery and treason. It’s what came after all that that embarrasses Bush the Minuscule.

fargo116 · December 23, 2015, 9:11pm

Absolutely none! The fact that racists, slaveholders and traitors carried that flag. Coincidence!

georgekaplan · December 23, 2015, 9:12pm

“The problem with the Confederate flag isn’t the Confederacy…”

No it has nothing to do with all the states who seceded from the Union in order to protect the EVIL institution of slavery. And JEB! says this in spite of the FACT that each state said clearly at the time that it was to protect slavery and their “States Rights.”

This is revisionist history and its a lying pile of horse shit.

epicurus · December 23, 2015, 9:12pm

And he’s “The Smart One”??? That family must set the bar awfully low…Jeb!, your little brother shit the bed, and you won’t get to lie down in it. YA man who will “never be elected President.” The GOP Klown Kar rattles on…

mattinpa · December 23, 2015, 9:13pm

If he still mattered enough that anybody would press him on it he’d say it four different ways over four different days and then clarify grumpily that yes, of course slavery wasn’t quite the thing, how could anyone possibly think he was saying anything different gee whizz.

Landshark2995 · December 23, 2015, 9:13pm

Later? Is Bush dumb, or what?

clunkertruck · December 23, 2015, 9:14pm

Once again … another chance… passes him by —

irasdad · December 23, 2015, 9:14pm

Bush: “Problem With Confederate Flag Is What It Began To Represent Later.”

Everything was cool until after the racism, slavery, violence, treason, and civil war that tore apart our nation.

azjude · December 23, 2015, 9:21pm

LATER???

You mean to tell me it didn’t mean traitor, racist flag back in the day when it meant traitor racist flag?

What an asshole!

azjude · December 23, 2015, 9:23pm

Proving once again that he is NOT the smart one!

douglashh · December 23, 2015, 9:23pm

I beg your pardon Governor but the Confederate Flay was about the Civil War which was all about slavery. Nice try but NO cigar.

douglashh · December 23, 2015, 9:24pm

With all due respect, Governor, this is exactly why you are at 4% in the polls.

berkshire_boy · December 23, 2015, 9:27pm

Getting needlessly caught up in a gaffe like this is one more reason Jeb! is getting schlonged by Trump.

austin_dave · December 23, 2015, 9:31pm

feathered_head · December 23, 2015, 9:31pm

Jeb tries to sound reasonable – but the middle ground he thinks he is defending is not morally anymore defendable than the extreme. He ends up pleasing no one. Like Rand Paul – there is no place for Jeb in today’s GOP.

wrightwingnut · December 23, 2015, 9:35pm

The Confederate flag is, and has always been, about white supremacy. That “heritage” is one of owning another human being as a slave. I swallowed this “heritage” crap as a child growing up in Alabama, but when I went into the world and traveled the globe I found what utter bull shit I had been taught. I renounced such provincial thinking long ago.

wrightwingnut · December 23, 2015, 9:38pm

“The SA was better than the SS” argument…of course, from a Bush.

seedfreak · December 23, 2015, 9:39pm

I see the point he is trying to make that the confederate flag lost its last and fading luster when it was co-opted by racial extremists. It was always representative of Dixie and racism but nowadays society reacts to offensive behavior–maybe at the speed of a sea slug shot in the foot–but it does react. Racism no longer gets the free pass it used to get and people will be identified and pegged in real time for their views. It’s a new century with new rules for social behavior.