I was late to work today, and I have a ton of crap to do, so I am counting on those of you at Raising Kaine with some free time to try to get some more details on this.
Follow me......
This morning, while getting ready for work SLOWLY after my celebratory "My first graduate course is complete, and I made it through 7 papers and 1000 pages of reading" dinner/wine fest, I was listening to Washington Journal, as I do every morning. If anyone is unfamiliar with the program, I highly suggest it; good spread of the news, and the callers are great because you ALWAYS feel smarter after listening to the Republicans, and sometimes the Dems too. Anywho...apparently, the Richmond Times "Dispatch" has a piece on WHY James Webb did not go after Allen on the confederate flag issue, citing from Webb's website and books about his support for the Confederates. I ran to the teevee, and I missed most of the short blip, and NOW, I cannot find this article anywhere!!! HELP!!! I didn't get the gyst!!!
So, go find it, if you can, so we can discuss what is probably another "Republicans are just BETTER!" article in the RT Disgrace.
::crickets::
Wadhams, who said he was unaware of Webb's praise for the Confederate soldiers, said yesterday that the Allen campaign did not want to comment on the speech.
"unaware", yeah right.
What are your secrets? ;)
I'll have to check their tags but I think they mark all of their pages "no spider, no agent" so they don't end up in the search engines. I'm not sure.
Here it is Webb speech praised Confederate Army
I then wrote the author of the article in the disgrace askinghim why he didn't include anything else from the new republic artcile in his piece, such as Allen being abusive and racist, and not just "hanging a piece of history in his office."
Ugh. Sometimes I DO want to go back to my blue state, but I will stay strong....
It might be worth it to write him; apparently they DID print that Allen pulled his sister down the stairs, but in 2000, when he was running against Robb. I told him to print it again, it's a new election.
Miller hopes that folks won't bother to look any deeper than the C word, and will vote for him. That's the best he can do - provoke the fray then point to himself as standing nobly above the fray.
The question remains: name one person in this country who has worked harder than Harris Miller to offshore American jobs.
Generations and generations of Jim Webb's forebears stretching back to the American Revolution helped to build this nation. When Webb speaks of the honor of Confederate soldiers he is speaking of his kin. George Allen can make no such claim. George Allen took his own hate and usurped the symbol of a proud people.
George Allen's use of the Confederacy is an affront to all those who truly lived and died for their beliefs.
Webb's Heritage, Allen's Hate.
You nicely pointed out that George Allen has no such claim to Southern Heritage, or to military service to our country at any step along the way. I'd love for you to include Harris Miller in that somehow. Miller made a statement that Tyler quoted, something like "I wouldn't have said that". Well, the fact is, Harris Miller COULDN'T have said that because he has no family or personal history of service either.