No one was waiting around to hear what Reagan fanboy and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb has to say about the Confederate flag, because no one cares what he has to say about anything, and now we are quite sure the "Democratic" presidential candidate should have kept his stupid mouth shut:
Who is this "Piyush"? I don't know him - but I know a dedicated, stiff-backed, stalwart all-Amurrican Christian named Bobby...who assisted in an "exorcism" in college, and who has never met a redneck-villager "value" he hasn't embraced as if it were his own...
My only vague, fond hope is that the *very* basic politics of the Democratic Party are changed--that is, that the influence of lawyers and alpha-type life-long political specialists/operatives is reduced. This is only a fond hope because...President Obama has *surrounded* himself with these damned people right from the start. No point in naming names, because there are really no exceptions to cite as a contrast. The "revolving door" between private and public power & policy isn't even revolving--it's wide-open. (Bravo to McDonald's execs for bringing in that sleazy operative Robert Gibbs, to help them through fights over their shitty labor practices!)
Yeah, the "rich man's war, poor man's fight" thing is QFT. However, in the end you're fighting for government's cause, whether you agree with it or not. And in the Confederacy, almost every white benefited from slavery, whether they personally owned slaves or not. They had family members who did, they had inheritance interests, they rented slaves or subcontracted slave labor for their own family farms or businesses, they rented property or rooms from slave owners, etc. My dirtpoor grandfather who ended up dying of pelagra was a blacksmith and didn't fight, but he periodically used slave labor and did business with slaveowners. I don't judge poor white decisions harshly or easily. But every Confederate and Border state had Union regiments. It was possible to make a different choice. Terribly hard, but still possible. I worry sometimes about what things I'm doing today that I can't/won't view as a choice that my descendants will skeptically look back on
"The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades"
And also in the 1860s.
South of the Mason-Dixon line all the southern ladies shop at traitor Joe's
Oh, come on now. Tell us how you REALLY feel!
Hell, yeah! Henrietta was one smart cookie.
He misses that sweet, soft singing from the slave quarters.
Who?
The harmonies were to die for.
Win!
Wasn't Webb a "detective" on an old TV show?
Just the facts, mam'n....
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It's my dating strategy in a nutshell.
Troll on, Brother/Sister/Citizen/Comrade, troll on.
Oh no, he means "Celtic savagery" in the good way. That's what he considers the root of American Exceptionalism.
I have never considered the idea that calling someone a savage could be a compliment. Just narrow-mindedness on my part.
Who is this "Piyush"? I don't know him - but I know a dedicated, stiff-backed, stalwart all-Amurrican Christian named Bobby...who assisted in an "exorcism" in college, and who has never met a redneck-villager "value" he hasn't embraced as if it were his own...
My only vague, fond hope is that the *very* basic politics of the Democratic Party are changed--that is, that the influence of lawyers and alpha-type life-long political specialists/operatives is reduced. This is only a fond hope because...President Obama has *surrounded* himself with these damned people right from the start. No point in naming names, because there are really no exceptions to cite as a contrast. The "revolving door" between private and public power & policy isn't even revolving--it's wide-open. (Bravo to McDonald's execs for bringing in that sleazy operative Robert Gibbs, to help them through fights over their shitty labor practices!)
Yeah, the "rich man's war, poor man's fight" thing is QFT. However, in the end you're fighting for government's cause, whether you agree with it or not. And in the Confederacy, almost every white benefited from slavery, whether they personally owned slaves or not. They had family members who did, they had inheritance interests, they rented slaves or subcontracted slave labor for their own family farms or businesses, they rented property or rooms from slave owners, etc. My dirtpoor grandfather who ended up dying of pelagra was a blacksmith and didn't fight, but he periodically used slave labor and did business with slaveowners. I don't judge poor white decisions harshly or easily. But every Confederate and Border state had Union regiments. It was possible to make a different choice. Terribly hard, but still possible. I worry sometimes about what things I'm doing today that I can't/won't view as a choice that my descendants will skeptically look back on