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Neoconfederates For Obama

By Kleinheider Posted on June 10, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Senator Jim Webb’s views on the War Between The States may prove to disqualify him from a place on the Democratic ticket:

Kristian Denny Todd, who served as communications director in Webb’s 2006 Senate campaign, said his remarks about the Confederacy should be viewed in the context of paying tribute to his Scots-Irish Southern forbears and his military sense of duty.

“He doesn’t defend the war at all or the practice of slavery. He does make arguments about why the South seceded,” said Denny Todd. “The individual Confederate soldier, for the most part, did not own slaves. They weren’t wealthy landowners. Webb simply talks about why these men — mostly poor and white — stepped up and answered the call to serve.”

The distinctions Webb makes, however, tend not to receive a full airing in the heat of political debate.

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s praise for Southern Partisan magazine, a journal sympathetic to the Confederate cause, helped delay his confirmation early in the Bush administration.

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6 Responses to “Neoconfederates For Obama”

  1. Sean Braisted writes
    June 10th, 2008 7:16 pm

    This is one of those cases, where its OK for a Democrat, but not for a Republican. Its hard to call the guy a racist when he’s running on the bottom of the ticket of the first black president.

  2. Kleinheider writes
    June 10th, 2008 7:25 pm

    One of his best friends runningmates is black? That sort of reasoning?

    You’ve been quite vociferous in your vehement opposition to any and all things Confederate.

    Now, all of sudden, reverence for the Lost Cause is copasetic with you because it may serve your ultimate political goal?

    Is that what we are saying here?

  3. Sean Braisted writes
    June 10th, 2008 10:15 pm

    Yep ;-) I’ve never said that all those who empathize with the confederacy are racist. I think many, perhaps most, are…and I think the confederate battle flag is a symbol of hatred towards the US Military; but if Jim Webb empathizes with confederate soldiers, I don’t have a major problem with that.

  4. Elrod writes
    June 11th, 2008 7:43 am

    There’s a difference between offering the myriad explanations for why individual white Southerners fought for the Confederacy and displaying the Confederate battle flag. Note that Jim Webb also notes tons of Scots-Irishmen in East Tennessee who fought for the Union.

  5. Glen Dean writes
    June 11th, 2008 7:44 am

    If there were a video to surface showing Obama wearing a Nazi uniform, Sean would explain it away.

    Probably one of the most embarrassing case of shrill ever witnessed.

    I think if they pick Webb, they should make this the campaign song. Heck, I might even cross over.

  6. Sean Braisted writes
    June 11th, 2008 8:42 am

    It would’ve been for a historical re-enactment of the famous black Nazi regiment.

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