Virginia’s Confederates

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• rbottoms // Apr 7, 2010 at 12:18 pm

  Just want to thank the GOP for reminding every black person in America why we despise the GOP, conservatives, and anything associated with them.

  We have no love for Robert Byrd, we don’t offer him flowery tributes, nor do we excuse his past.

  But we have forgiven the doddering old fellow and are quite content to wait until nature removes him from office.

  Republicans on the other hand go out of their way to insult us (MLK Holiday), ignore us (Katrina), and denigrate us with acts like this vile proclamation. Bob McDonnell may as well have declared Nazi Veterans History Month as far as we’re concerned.

  F*** him and the state of Virginia.

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• twyla2 // Apr 7, 2010 at 12:41 pm

  By calling it a “stupid” declaration, you’re making fun of him, too. Aren’t you?

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• Rob_654 // Apr 7, 2010 at 12:43 pm

  But , um – who cares if the person is a Liberal or Conservative?

  Celebrating the cause of traitors is an equal opportunity bit of Southern – um – “charm”…

  Every one of those traitorous states should have been absorbed into existing American States after the Civil War and those that refused should have endured a literal firestorm and then their ashes could have been absorbed.

  What is wrong with the people in those states?

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• ottovbvs // Apr 7, 2010 at 12:53 pm

  …..So what…….Just because McDonnell stirs up a hornets nest with his dumb declaration what’s this got to do with Jim Webb and his views……this is the standard false equivalence ploy from the right…..transparent and puerile

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• EdCoughlin // Apr 7, 2010 at 3:48 pm

  Yes, he is stupid for talking fondly of the confederacy just as a german would be stupid for talking fondly of the Nazi regime. The Nazis were caught in a hopeless fight at the end, but that does not afford them any special reverence, they were still fighting for a profoundly wrong cause just as the confederate forces were.

  The Confederates were, quite simply, traitors and deserve no more positive recognition then other traitors of American history starting with Benedict Arnold.

  Here is precisely the kind of recognition the Confederates deserve. At West Point all of the generals of the Revolution are given plaques. In Arnolds place it reads “Major General, Born 1740″ and other then that remains blank.

  That is how Confederate soldiers should be remembered, they were born men and by their own actions died anonymous and abominable traitors who betrayed their country to protect the right to keep black Americans in servitude. I can only hope that Dante was right and such men rest with Lucifer within the lowest circle of hell for their crime.

  Defending traitors and treating them as heroes is beyond contempt, I don’t care if the one lauding them is a democrat or republican. I do think actually publishing an official document in support of remembering these traitors fondly is far worse then just talking about them in a speech but that’s really just splitting hairs.

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• Art Horizon // Apr 7, 2010 at 5:09 pm

  Is it really such a good thing for the union that the south lost the war? I think I’d grind my teeth a lot less if those yahoos lived in a different country.

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• Oskar // Apr 7, 2010 at 9:49 pm

  All hail Marcuse and Stalin!

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