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Webb's rebel roots: An affinity for Confederacy
Politico ^ | 6/10/08 | David Mark

Posted on 06/27/2008 7:08:18 AM PDT by cowboyway

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Now that the Second Amendment issue has been settled (at least until the Marxists gain control) we need to revisit the Tenth Amendment issue.
1 posted on 06/27/2008 7:08:18 AM PDT by cowboyway
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To: cowboyway

In before the “demonize American history” crowd arrives.


2 posted on 06/27/2008 7:10:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

And in before the Reb Bashers!


3 posted on 06/27/2008 7:14:21 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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... we need to revisit the Tenth Amendment issue.

I am afraid you will also have to consider the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment upon the Tenth. This has been the judicial wedge used to render the Tenth Amendment basically feckless.
4 posted on 06/27/2008 7:18:52 AM PDT by Lucky Dog
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we need to revisit the Tenth Amendment issue.

The 14th and especially the 17th Amendments have ensured there is no Tenth Amendment issue.

And regarding the Civil War - we won, get over it ;-)

5 posted on 06/27/2008 7:21:01 AM PDT by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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What about Webb’s pedophile porn literature?


6 posted on 06/27/2008 7:21:06 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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Let's you see Yankee’s and the old grand party try to win this election without the south and see how far you get.

DEO VINDICE!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 posted on 06/27/2008 7:26:49 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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What about Webb’s pedophile porn literature?

Did he ever do an audio book. It would be great to have that particular passage as part of a commercial.

8 posted on 06/27/2008 7:28:05 AM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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Webb won overwhelming support from black voters — 85 percent — who accounted for 16 percent of all voters, according to exit polls.

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An amazing feat considering Webb supposedly supports a political system that merely “supported slavery”. Are people just too dumb to realize that a federal republic that truly respects state powers is the only alternative to a massive, centralized national government? How can that only be about “supporting slavery”?


9 posted on 06/27/2008 7:28:33 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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“Unless he is able to explain it, it would raise some questions,” Walters said.

Uh...sounds like he did...several times.And thats just in the article.

[let me get out my catechism:]
Slavery bad
Black folk mad
Any mention of the Civil war which portrays the South in a positive or brave light makes it a support of slavery
The descendants of any southern soldier or worse officer bears a special guilt for fighting for their land.

hmmm

have I missed anything?

oh yeah: rebel flag = swastika

[spit]

jerks


10 posted on 06/27/2008 7:28:42 AM PDT by Adder (typical bitter white person)
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The double standard will once again prevail:

If a Republican (George Allen) shows an interest in the Confederate side of the Civil War, he is a bigot and a racist.

If a Democrat (Jim “I like to write about incestuous homosexual pedophiles” Webb) shows an interest in the Confederate side of the Civil War, he is an historian.


11 posted on 06/27/2008 7:30:16 AM PDT by WayneS (America's Commies Love Their Obami !!!!)
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This has been the judicial wedge used to render the Tenth Amendment basically feckless.

I didn't stop Oklahoma.

12 posted on 06/27/2008 7:31:12 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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“The 14th and especially the 17th Amendments have ensured there is no Tenth Amendment issue.”

Please explain to this ignorant Southerner why that is the case?


13 posted on 06/27/2008 7:34:00 AM PDT by WayneS (America's Commies Love Their Obami !!!!)
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Haha - my heritage stood on the Little Round Top shutting the door on you Rebs, saving the Union lines at Gettysburg, and thus saving the Union itself.

However, I do honor the Southern soldier, much as Col. Chamberlain did. Standing astride the Confederate parade at Appomattox, Col. Chamberlain watched the Confederate soldiers marching to surrender their arms and colors. Chamberlain ordered his own men to come to attention and carry arms. I'm reading his memoirs, where he said:

Gordon, at the head of the marching column, outdoes us in courtesy. He was riding with downcast eyes and more than pensive look; but at this clatter of arms he raises his eyes and instantly catching the significance, wheels his horse with that superb grace of which he is master, drops the point of his sword to his stirrup, gives a command, at which the great Confederate ensign following him is dipped and his decimated brigades, as they reach our right, respond to the 'carry'. All the while on our part not a sound of trumpet or drum, not a cheer, nor a word nor motion of man, but awful stillness as if it were the passing of the dead.

Chamberlain recognized, at the conclusion of hostilities, the Rebels were once again Americans, and treated them as such. I'll gladly stand by any Southerners today - besides, I'm quite sure I'm the better shot!

14 posted on 06/27/2008 7:36:05 AM PDT by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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And regarding the Civil War - we won, get over it ;-)

What did you win, noobie? A centralized government that the Founders abhorred?

South Carolina recently passed strict illegal immigration laws. But the federal SC can strike them down at their leisure.

Louisiana had two men on death row for child rape but the federal SC decided that the people of Louisiana couldn't put child rapists to death because it was 'unconstitutional'............. in their opinion.

Is that what you won?

15 posted on 06/27/2008 7:38:31 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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If they didn't care that Bobby Byrd wore a white sheet, they won't care if Jim Webb drinks mint juleps on the weekends, and stares longingly at "the stainless banner".

I actually read Webb's "Born Fighting". It wasn't a bad read, and gave a pretty fair explanation of why the non-slaveholding Celtic South fought against the Union.

I still think he's a jerk, though.
16 posted on 06/27/2008 7:41:51 AM PDT by horse_doc (Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
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Are people just too dumb to realize that a federal republic that truly respects state powers is the only alternative to a massive, centralized national government?

Yes they are.

How can that only be about “supporting slavery”?

Because that is the politically correct version of the revisionist history being taught to raise the self esteem of blacks and make whites feel guilty which is some sort of perverse restitution.

17 posted on 06/27/2008 7:46:03 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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I didn't stop Oklahoma.

Should be: It didn't stop Oklahoma................

18 posted on 06/27/2008 7:48:16 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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have I missed anything?

oh yeah: rebel flag = swastika

Looks like you have it covered............

19 posted on 06/27/2008 7:49:41 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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This is absolutely the only thing I like about that jerk Webb.
20 posted on 06/27/2008 7:49:43 AM PDT by ottbmare
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