He adds: “Many of my colleagues in academia are urging President Obama to pull the plug on this tradition. I doubt that he will, for the simple reason that the men buried around the Confederate memorial sacrificed, suffered and died just as the black and white soldiers of the Union did. Most of the descendants of those Confederates, whatever their political stripe today, would be loath to deny their ancestors a simple gesture of recognition.”

He Notes: “….the Confederacy and the Third Reich are not, in the end, comparable. The Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews (implemented largely by the SS) was a crime unique to the Third Reich, while the crime of slavery was interwoven not only into the Confederacy but into the fabric of the American nation, into the Constitution, our economic system and wars of territorial expansion across the continent. To single out the ordinary soldiers of the Confederacy as beyond the moral pale does not help us come to grips with slavery’s more profound role in American history.”

And Pleads: “President Obama, why not send two wreaths? One to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington Cemetery and another to the African American Civil War Memorial in the District, which commemorates the 200,000 black soldiers who fought for liberation from slavery in the Union armed forces. Here is an opportunity to remind us what real reconciliation, in this day and age, would mean. Send two wreaths with one common message: that the descendants of slaves and the descendants of slaveholders should recognize each other’s humanity, and do the hard work of reckoning with the racial divide that is slavery’s cruelest and most enduring legacy.”

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I totally disagree! President Obama should pull the plug on this “tradition,” a tradition of honoring KILLERS. Murderers whose influence is still visible on PICK-UP trucks all across the heartland of America.

Mr. Savage, reconciliation means dropping everything that signifies or reminds of a sordid past, and not trying to justify past actions by stupid and baseless rationalizations and insinuations like this bum is trying to do here and here.

Until I see a far-left LIBERAL homosexual flying a confederate flag with a noose tied to back of his pickup, in Jamaica, Queens, New York — no amount of persuasion will convince me that the confederacy and its descendants (Right-Wing Republicans) are nothing other than a bunch of rabid racists.

In Texas, Rick Perry’s “hanging State,” a “former” confederate state — Racist graffiti, hangman nooses and Confederate flags are routinely displayed to intimidate blacks. In mid-America, there are areas where blacks still cannot live in, for fear of being lynched. The Texas-Louisiana border area is home to some of the most small-minded, ignorant, racist idiots you’d ever want to meet — and they ALL fly confederate flags …on their pick-up trucks, frequently accompanied by nooses!

The recent Republican Tea-Baggers, the new white-power movement, flew confederate flags, while spewing racist epithets at president Obama — even those who will ultimately benefit from Obama’s policies.

I can only arrive at one conclusion — they can’t fathom the fact that a “qualified” black man is in the whitehouse. Smells like racism to me!

Janeane Garofalo hit the nail on the head, and took a lot of heat from the right, when she called the tea-baggers exactly what they are: A bunch of racist rednecks — who have no clue what they are “fighting for,” except one thing — the SOCIALIST BLACK MAN in the WhiteHouse!

Celebrating DEAD CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS is akin to sanctioning and encouraging the brutal militaristic racism that America has tried so hard to stomp — but still cannot get rid off completely. It is an act that legitimizes right-wing terrorism in America, for example, the sick, xenophobic “campaign terrorism” of McCain and Palin, and the bone-breaking “hyena” fear-mongering of the world’s number one terrorist, Dick Cheney.

As Mr. Savage admits, the confederacy was a conglomeration of eleven states, bent on preserving the institution of black slavery, therefore, showing any respect to what their soldiers fought for — is tantamount to sanctioning their vile acts!

Let them celebrate their lynching history in their backyards and out of site.

If Obama sends a wreath to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington Cemetery, then he will be insulting the “fifty percent” of him that is black — which opens another can of worms altogether: Why is the president designated BLACK and not WHITE? Professor Ochieng discusses the one-drop rule.

Confederate(Republican) Hate Themes: | ACORN Vote Fraud | William Ayers | Muslim Obama

UPDATE: Monday, Obama decided to continue a controversial presidential tradition of honoring Southern Civil War soldiers by sending a wreath to Arlington’s Confederate Memorial, according to the White House. [ READ MORE ]

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I thought they would stop after Barack Obama won the election. Nope they haven’t, and going by today’s Tea-Bagging nonsense, they will not.

As I indicated in a previous post, Republicans will NEVER accept the fact the a black man is occupying “THEIR White-House.” They are in LYNCHING mode — desperate, deranged [Glenn Beck] and sick to the bone, … the Republican Party has lost its mind.

Exactly, as Obama once correctly indicated, they feel cornered and the EVIL GOP BASTARDS are clinging to GOD, GUNS and are sucking on the TITS of AK-47’s and repeater rifles.

A chain email letter packed with monstrous falsehoods is circulating the Internet. Reads as follows:

These monstrous Fear-Mongering Falsehoods are debunked by HERE

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Adopted From The Nation: The Republican Party’s political strategy of sowing resentment and fear–sprung from Richard Milhouse Nixon and was nurtured by admen like Lee Atwater, Floyd Brown and the Swiftboaters.

McCain tried to use the same tactic in the last presidential election — and fell flat on his face. To McCain’s supporters Barack Hussein Osama Nobama, was born outside America and secretly schooled in Islamic terrorism at a Wahhabi madrassa. He then moved to the United States to take up the radical ’60s teachings of the Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers, while also organizing for ACORN, a subprime-lending, voter fraud-committing collective of affirmative-action welfare queens. All this happened before he became an elitist celebrity advocate of socialism, infanticide, the sexual abuse of children and treason.

All John McCain, Sarah Palin and their surrogates needed to do was to raise the insidious question–”Who is the real Barack Obama?“–and the zealots conjured the rest, along with cries of “Treason!” “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!”

What holds this strategy together is not the fear and loathing of any particular despised identity so much as the idea that America is under siege, disordered, on the cusp of imminent and total collapse, threatened by terrorists abroad and undermined by enemies at home. … [ READ MORE ]

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After Obama beat McCain thoroughly and decisively, the GOP has to re-invent or die — demographic data supports this theory.

While it is obvious their only sure path successful to re-tooling is to become a big-tent party, they apparently have abandoned the idea — in favor of becoming MORE CONSERVATIVE …..i.e. more RACIST and BIGOTED.

We must stick to our “Conservative Principles” — RACISM, PREJUDICE and BIGOTRY!!

Obviously these ding-bats learned nothing after McCain’s defeat.

So, in the present instance, as far as Republicans are concerned — America is under siege, the END OF AMERICA is NEAR!, Obama’s STIMULUS will STARVE “our” children to DEATH!!, We are becoming a SOCIALIST COUNTRY!!, He must be stopped!, He must FAIL — per Rush Limbaugh!!

…and there are millions of Republicans who believe this nonsense — even after Obama got elected — and BLACKS NEVER TOOK OVER THE COUNTRY TO PUNISH WHITES!!

I guess, the thought of a BLACK man and his “angry” wife occupying the White House, must be making many Republicans wet their pants uncontrollable, in FRIGHT, in the middle of the night.

The comedy and idiocy of the Republican Party lives on! …….in the confines of Rush Limbaugh’s FAT Stinking Belly.

Gingrich says Democratic proposals “absolutely moves
you towards a political dictatorship”

O’Reilly Turns on NBC Again!

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Neo-Nazi WorldNetDaily caught lying | Racist Bill Cunningham’s opens his sewer mouth again

Bill Cunningham “SEWER” Quotes:

1. “Barack Hussein Obama is a Bolshevik.”

2. “Obama sympathizes with ‘world leaders who want to kill us.’ — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

3. “Islam’s goal is to have ’sex with children for eternity.’ | Audio |

4. “Obama is ‘a hack Chicago Daley-style politician’ who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you — all you’re going to have in your pocket is change.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

5. “The stooges from the New York Times and the sycophants in the media are conspiring to elect Obama.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

6. “At some point in the near future the media … is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama.” “At some point the media will quit taking sides in this thing and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they cover Bush, the same way they cover Cheney, and same way they cover every Republican.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

7. “I have had a dream about Barack Hussein Obama’s wonderful life a year from today.” “In the dream, Obama is president and has just met with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jon Il. Then, Obama was going to ’saddle up’ to Hezbollah.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

8. “All’s going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing ["Kumbaya"] together around the table with Barack Hussein Obama.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio

9. “Don’t call him Barack Hussein Obama, call him ‘the Messiah.‘” — Telling Sean Hannity on Fox News

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