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Way to lead, Jim. Say bye, bye Presidential ambitions.
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Well, you’re out. Happily almost nobody knew you were in. Buh bye.
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Well, I for one am BAFFLED how he managed to lose his Senate seat with this kind of courage!!1!1!1!eleven!1!!!
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. . . honorable Americans fought on both sides in the Civil War
Please explain how any American is honorable when he or she takes up arms against other Americans, against the Constitution,and against the United States as a whole. There was nothing honorable about the people who started and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. They were traitors.
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“The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades.”
Yes, Senator Jim, as recently as 150 years ago.
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What a bunch of codswallop. How can you say that nonsense without also mentioning the SLAVES and the people during Reconstruction and through to the seventies who were LYNCHED? I have never liked Webb but I think I hate him now.
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Mr. Webb has decided to cling to a false narrative that is easy to unravel with just the slightest sense of curiosity. For somebody who likes to pose as a “stand up guy” he sure is quick to wimp out. Oh well, maybe this will open the door for somebody who is capable of questioning their long held assumptions when confronted with unpleasant facts.
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I’m cross posting this from another thread.
What’s needed, long overdue really, is a reckoning that puts the idea of an honorable “Lost Cause” to rest once and for all. The Charleston massacre, the timing coinciding with the upcoming Presidential election, the conservative and liberal bifurcation of the parties that’s taken years to complete, have combined to create a perfect storm scenario. We might be able to finally put the civil war behind us.
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Webb refuses to stand on the right side of history? Well, there can be no better proof that choosing the pursuit of power as a career makes one a coward.
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And this ladies and gentlemen, is why that ex-Senator, the misogynist creep who wrote “Why Women Can’t Fight” for which he has never backed down from that view, and who at one time endorsed Republican George Allen, among other disgusting things he ought to be ashamed of in the grand scheme of things, should officially stay away from Presidential politics and stick to writing books…something I hear he’s quite good at, though I’ve never read any of his shit.
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What a profile in courage.
Semper Fi?
Try Whimper Why?
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Only the ones who fought for the Confedracy should be able to wear/sport the Star’n’Bars …ever
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Well, he was Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy after all…
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Webb lost this old colonel with his failure to oppose the stars and bars. The confederate flag represents states that went to war to preserve slavery. Since they were defeated, it has been used by those who do not believe in the equality of African Americans and have terrorized them, starting when Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the KKK in 1865.
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Well, now Jim Webb sounds like every other equivocating politicians. Not a profile in courage.
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I wonder if he went through basic at Fort Bragg?
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For the record, I read his Fields of Fire. It’s an incredibly good novel of the Vietnam War. Once you get through that you can breathe a sigh of relief that you’re still alive, and you can never think of war as an adventure.
I’m really disappointed in his weaselling on this. His stock in trade has always been bluntness and out-of-the-box thinking. No-one’s perfect, I guess.
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Does Webb not understand what the Civil War was about?
Apparently not.
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His stock in trade has always been bluntness
It’s possible to be blunt and stupid at the same time. Webb manages that quite nicely here.
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