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<s>Robert</s>Beto O'Rourke Calls For Removal of Confederate Plaque [ed]
Newsweek ^ | November 27, 2018 | Alexandra Hutzler

Posted on 11/27/2018 3:32:30 PM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Beto Nacho Senator.


21 posted on 11/27/2018 4:10:13 PM PST by Mashood
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To: C19fan

So you want to take it down too!!!!!!

I’m sick of revisionist history and people who espouse it!!!!!


22 posted on 11/27/2018 4:11:42 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: C19fan

Beto has latched onto the most important issue facing the country today! /s


23 posted on 11/27/2018 4:14:50 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: C19fan
The horror...

BTW, is is now Robert Francis "Beaten" O'Rourke.

"lighten up Francis"

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24 posted on 11/27/2018 4:25:36 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: C19fan

Anything for attention. Ignore him.


25 posted on 11/27/2018 4:29:42 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (R. Do Not Respond To Vanity Posts.)
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To: C19fan

Will that make the Civil War go away, schmuck?

They keep trying to convince us that smacked butt Beto is one of the Kennedys. As if the whole country is still in love with the Kennedys. That rabbit died long ago with all of the subsequent actions and activities of the long living Teddy and the young Kennedys, who, I am sorry, do not seem too bright.


26 posted on 11/27/2018 4:36:12 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Uncle Sham

If it was a rebelion why didn’t Lee send an assassin.


27 posted on 11/27/2018 4:38:10 PM PST by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight up his seat. to the comments..)
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To: C19fan

What are the odds his next “demand” is to return the land that is Texas back to Mexico?


28 posted on 11/27/2018 4:40:44 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: Uncle Sham; C19fan; rockrr; BroJoeK
That's why that plaque should remain in it's place. What you've been taught and what you currently believe might not be the truth. What gives YOUR version of "Truth" the right to deny others their version of the truth? North Good, South Bad. That's not history. That's total propaganda.

Nonsense. The plaque is based on the idea that the South could not be wrong. It pledges its supporters to ignore, dismiss or vilify opposing opinions because it's unbearable that slavery could have been a cause of secession and civil war. Maybe C19fan's opinion -- in contrast to the Children of the Confederacy's -- is actually based on facts and evidence.

29 posted on 11/27/2018 4:45:48 PM PST by x
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To: Maris Crane

The only Kennedys that had anything between their ears was Joe, Robert & possibly Joe jr. JFK’s supposed intellectual achievements were almost entirely ghostwritten. (I used to remember that guys name!)


30 posted on 11/27/2018 4:53:02 PM PST by Reily
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To: x; C19fan

Okay, Let’s do it this way for a change. Tell me WHY did the north fight the Civil War?


31 posted on 11/27/2018 4:53:06 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham; DoodleDawg
The North fought the Civil War to preserve the Union.

But why did South Carolina and the other Deep South states secede?

32 posted on 11/27/2018 4:56:08 PM PST by x
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To: C19fan

Beto is moving to Lousiana and is going to change his name to Beteaux


33 posted on 11/27/2018 5:02:02 PM PST by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger! God-Family-Tribe)
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To: C19fan

“PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEE!”


34 posted on 11/27/2018 5:05:20 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: x
“The North fought the Civil War to preserve the Union.”

I have read that. There are actually quotes by Lincoln that support that view. Of course, Lincoln was on record as supporting secession too.

There was also a statement - made by Lincoln at Gettysburg - that implied the war was fought by the North for the purpose of equality. It was understood at the time Lincoln was referring not to equality between men and women, but equality between free men and slaves. This was controversial in the North and South.

And too, the North had imposed confiscatory taxation on imports which had a disparate impact on the South. For some reason the South didn't like confiscatory taxation.

To say Southern soldiers, some of which owned slaves, were fighting to preserve slavery is like saying U.S. soldiers in the Jim-Crow era army went ashore on D-Day “to preserve segregation.”

35 posted on 11/27/2018 5:36:50 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Reily

“...The only Kennedys that had anything between their ears was Joe, Robert & possibly Joe jr. JFK’s supposed intellectual achievements were almost entirely ghostwritten. (I used to remember that guys name!)...”

Ted Sorenson was one along with touches from Arthur Schlesinger, Pierre Salinger, John Kenneth Galbraith and others. JFK could write some on his own and understood the importance of word play, double talk, and playing up to opposing sides.

Appointing RFK as the Attorney General of the United States should have brought on lots of flak. The press was so sycophantic and/or bought and paid for that JFK got away with much that Nixon could not dare to do.


36 posted on 11/27/2018 5:43:05 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: x
"But why did South Carolina and the other Deep South states secede?"

Self determination. In addition, the largest contributing factor was ending the north raping them financially. This is why the north wanted to "preserve the union". They had a cash cow that they were taking advantage of and didn't want to give it up. The South had a right to chart it's own coarse and had decided to do so. They had no plans to invade the North or tell the North what to do. The North forced it's will upon the South through the provocation at Ft. Sumter and the following military invasion and 12 year occupation. Those are the facts. North good, South Bad. Yea, right.

The vast majority of the Confederate Army were everyday people who did not own slaves but they were brave and courageous enough to DEFEND their homeland against foreign invaders. That their children would wish to honor their courage on a plaque is a noble act of remembrance. The true cowards are those who would today deny them that right.

37 posted on 11/27/2018 5:46:38 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: Sasparilla

1984 squared = 3,936,256


38 posted on 11/27/2018 5:48:38 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: x
"Maybe C19fan's opinion -- in contrast to the Children of the Confederacy's -- is actually based on facts and evidence"

Put it on a plaque and hang it up somewhere. Then, perhaps after reading conflicting plaques, folks who care enough would research the issue and learn the actual truth rather than an ill-informed one-sided version. Can't your view of things stand up to competition?

39 posted on 11/27/2018 5:54:45 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: Monterrosa-24

“...Ted Sorenson was one along with touches from Arthur Schlesinger, …”

Thanks I knew is was Ted something!

Sorenson was the one that did almost all if not all of JFK’s supposed intellectual writing. Its even suspected Sorenson wrote JFK’s senior Harvard thesis.


40 posted on 11/27/2018 6:21:30 PM PST by Reily
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