Long before Joe Wilson (R-SC) made a complete ass out of himself and his party on national television, he fought to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over South Carolina.
The flag came down that year [2000] after Republicans in both houses went for a compromise that would put it on Statehouse grounds at the Confederate Soldier’s monument. The “Magnificent Seven” of Senators who voted to keep the flag up included current Congressman Joe Wilson…
That’s right — Wilson was one of only seven members of the South Carolina Senate to vote to stick it to the blacks keep the battle flag. It was finally brought down under intense national pressure and from an NAACP boycott, which cost the state millions in tourism revenue.
Wilson was just being a good foot soldier for the Neo-Confederate cause, as he’s a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization teeming with white supremecists and right-wing extremists.
Notes the Southern Poverty Law Center,
Early editions of the SCV’s Confederate Veteran newsletter defended the Ku Klux Klan, argued that the United States was created "for white people," and complained that "when a Negro has learned to read he ceases to work."
As DougJ wrote,
No one could have predicted that a white southern Congressman would heckle a black president.
Exactly.




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Gee, maybe that’s why the first thing I thought when I heard Joe the Mouth was, “Where’s this clown’s sheet and hood?”
Well, it was Wednesday, middle of the week laundry day, doncha ya know!
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin…..of-him.php
he also said strom thurmond’s bi-racial daughter should have “kept the inconvenient facts to herself”.
Hi there. MrChicaggo here. Yes, that was certainly an unfortunate outburst last night. I’m glad the Republicans forced him to apologize.
Keith Ellison on the House floor now, saying that the Progressive Movement will help shape this bill, starting with a true public option. He and Lynn Woolsey are speaking back and forth. OMG! Keith Ellison is showing the all letters supporting a public option and he’s holding up FDL Action letterhead was on t.v.!
Beat me too it. I just logged in to announce the same . Great Job, FDL
Funny, I was just saying it wouldn’t be long before you guys started to use the race card, that card is played out…get over it..If people don’t agree with the Presidents agenda you call them racist…Where the hell you were you at when people on the left called Bush a lier for the last 8 yrs?
Tee hee. Rob Miller’s ActBlue page will top $300,000 during this thread.
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that this man is a racist. After all, his attack on Obama was just meant to make sure that anyone who doesn’t look or sound ‘mericun will need to show proof of citizenship to get healthcare.
Palin / Wilson 2012?
Bush / Wilson 2012?
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Right past teh stoopid please.
Don’t hold your breath on the Public Option, if you want free health care carry your ass to another country…
Wilson/Duke 2012???
EDIT: And please disregard teh cumpleet stoopid.
I think Rob Wilson must be raising a thousand dollars every minute.
WooHoo!
How many times you guys gonna play that card?
Ignorance is a verb.
If republicans had their way, the ignorant would be a protected minority …
…um, wait, they are being allowed to carry firearms to political events aren’t they?
I thought the right insisted that behaviour wasn’t grounds for minority status?
Now I’m getting confused …
too much scrolling to do here these days. sigh…
Could be, since the Republic Party is basically a new name for the original American Independent Party.
Hey Old Fat Guy and Southern Dragon, how about putting in a good word for me with the moderator? Ask him/her to stop this postus interruptus so I can get on with the important business of keeping you folks grounded in reality. All this extra typing I have to do is seriously enlarging my troll footprint. Whattaya say? I’d do the same for you.
Cool!!!
Look at it this way: more exercise for your mouse finger.
T-Rex on my fb page:
” someone forgot to remind the Republicans about the No White Hoods After Labor Day rule “
i make it a twofer by also lifting my middle finger.
LOL
Yeah, I know.
And I’m aware that my constant pleas of scrolling are probably getting just as annoying as teh stoopid itself, and for that my apologies.
It’s just I have noticed, for real, if ignored, it eventually ceases. It really does. If fed, it only increases. At least that’s what I’ve seen.
YMMV.
Looking at photos of townhalls and teabaggers there are more than ample images attacking Obama’s race. So there is plenty of the race cards being played by racist wingnuts.
I pushed my labor day back a few months……
not annoying at all.
Supports the Confederate flag and told Strom Thurmond’s illegitimate black daughter she should STFU after she revealed her parentage. Why does this not surprise me in the least?
So, is Joe the Mouth gonna team up with Glenn
BeckPeckerhead and Limpdick? Three fools have got to be better than 2.Yea, just like when the left opposed Bush the last 8 yrs…you guys crack me up…There are crazy people on both sides…The Public Option won’t be there at the end and I will laugh when you try to blame the right….
Ummm…because you’ve been talking racism in the Republican Party for months?
We will see won’t we.
where are the lipstick wearing pitbulls? (not talking of lindsey graham here)
How about we wager my military retirement check on it?
As well as the fact that I grew up with segregation, Jim Crow, the white sheet crowd (not too many in my home town thankfully) and study the subject professionally now. You might say I am something of an expert on the subject.
Wilson may have done more last night to pass health care reform than Obama himself. People like Palin, Steele, and now Wilson are doing their best to make it easy for the Dems. Maybe we should ask a Blue Dog to shout out something stupid.
Oh, wait, they already did. Never mind.
Don’t feel the need to do that. Thank you for your service to your country.
What a suprise! Limpy Limbaugh says Wilson was right!
Raven, Raven… Paging Raven…
My sympathies to the poor unfortunate citizens of South Carolina who have to deal with all the abuse heaped on their fair state because of the lunacy of their most prominent assclowns.
I am genuinely stunned at this turn of events.
One of my uncles took me to a Klan rally outside Myrtle Beach in the 50s. I had grown up in DC where the schools were already integrated just as a matter of course but my family was from SC. I was 10 and had heard all the racism in the family but had never seen or heard anything like that. Fought with my family over it for years.
That’s right out of the Republic playbook. When Republic crazies create a frenzy, accuse everyone else of having crazies too instead of calling crazies ‘crazy’.
Real big shocker there.
The fun will come though when all those R’s that called on Wilson to apologize in the first place have to get on their knees and kiss that Limpass for forgiveness.
Those are the festivities I can’t wait to see!!
No one could have guessed that a South Carolina lockstep conservative Republican who broke Congressional decorum and called the President a liar during a speech was also one who fought to keep the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina state house.
As the descendant of a Confederate soldier who died in the federal POW prison in Elmira, NY, and as a native of South Carolina, I have to say, “What’s the news here?”
And why is it that even progressives talk about Strom Thurmond’s illegitimate black daughter but never about the fact that an unpunished rapist walked the halls of Congress for 50-something years.
And, if you have not done so, show your outrage by donating to Rob Miller’s ActBlue page so we can get two-year-old Addison “Joe” Wilson out of Congress.
senate blue dogs summoned to white house
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..oned-to-WH
is this good or bad? my gut says it’s bad.
yes
So this moderator walks into a bar with a duck on his head, and the bartender says . . .
(Unloose me from bondage and I’ll tell you the rest.)
Remember, MLK said people from Mississippi needed to come to Chicago to learn how to hate.
Rethugs don’t believe in expertise. What is in the gut is what counts.
There was not the disrespect for the Office of the President when Bush was in office that there is for Obama. The right always likes to use line about turn around is fair play but it is no where close to the truth. With most of the left vs right I would say it was like bringing a knife to a gunfight but believe it’s more like bringing a sponge to a gunfight.
GOPers often go by the doctrine of if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth; even if it is in there own little mind.
For years many southerners did not have respect for people of color and it still shows, even when one is now the President. They just can’t get past it.
They should be told they are pooping on the Senate Floor and to knock it off. One can hope can’t they?
Just wondering if you were in troll-smacking mode… ;)
as lindsey graham just demonstrated.
http://wwww.dailykos.com/story…..the-office
I think the display of the battle flag was inappropriate only because it said SC was still at war with the Union. The confederate flag would’ve been more appropriate as it would’ve indicated SC was undefeated by the Union. I’m of the persuasion that says Lincoln cynically exploited the very real slavery issue, just as the not so impoverished Southern Poverty Law Center does civil rights.
The ruthlessly enforced decorum in a joint session speech is a matter of tradition, but the camera saw more than was heard from the renegade back-benchers yesterday evening.
Congress never has a free-for-all as they do in parliaments in Canada and England, e.g. Just have a look at the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions on CSPAN to see the opportunities missed here in America. Unfortunately, the joint session is not one of those opportunities and probably shouldn’t be. But still. There should be such opportunities.
Racism is pervasive as the nitrogen molecule. Blacks look down on the Puerto Ricans, Cubans despise the Mexicans, Bosnian Serbs commit genocide on Bosnian Muslims, and on and on and on…
Obviously Lindsey got his orders from Rove early today.
lieberweasel is one of those summoned. he’s not even a blue dog democrat.
Keep those stereotypes flowing. Sooner or later you may finally trip over one that excuses Republic behavior.
Could you elaborate? Have any links?
Let us pray that they’re in for an ass-kicking from on high…
This is sounding like the part where the White House is telling the Senate BD’s to just agree to something, anything, to get a bill to conference, and is reassuring them that those same BD’s will get White House cover for what they want in that final bill.
Could be wrong, been there before, many times.
Did you interpret the remark as a justification of racism? The expectation was that readers here have functional sarcasm antenae.
Did those who called Bush a liar do it at the State of the Union addresses? Did they belong to “White Supremicist” organizations, did they personally support laws that glorified a separationist movement that nearly destroyed this country?
No one is saying that Pete Voinovich is a racist…the post is about Joe Wilson. Read IT.
missed your tone. sorry.
Ha ha! Just tried to visit Mr. Wilson’s site to leave a comment. Surprise, surprise–site has too much traffic and is temporarily disabled.
Yeah, Raven! YOU’RE not afraid of trolls. Help me out here. The moderator’s constipating my comments, much to the detriment of the free and loose passage of ideas. How about putting in a good word for your old buddy? (That would be me.)
Must be hittin’ a little too close to home on this issue?
Whew, you had me worried!
Don’t let Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson have all the glory, the other one
with the “What Bill” sign is from my district, check him out… he is the
one with a circumscision scar for a hairline, has an 88% safe Rove created
district full of SCV birther-deather tired military types.
Joe Wilson supported keeping the traitorous stars and bars flying over the south carolina capitol? What a surprise.
Can’t wait for Jeff Sessions to weigh in.
The Leader of the Republics is insane
Additionally, it is the flag of the losers.
Say what? I’m from South Carolina and that is the stupidest take on history that I’ve seen. South Carolina was defeated by the Union. South Carolina troops surrendered along with other state armies. South Carolina troops then were paroled to go home. South Carolina was occupied by federal troops.
Everyone in South Carolina knew in the 1960s that the fetish about the Confederate flag was a symbolic defense of segregation. That was as wrong as slavery was wrong in America. The heritage argument is pure bullshit.
It is well past time for the South in general, and South Carolina in particuluar to move on.
Maybe he is a blue toad independent?
Wilson/Palin 2012. Why shouldn’t we have a good laugh with our politics. YeeeeHaaawwwwww!!!!!!
Very true, but it’ll never happen, especially now that the Republic Party has devolved into the small, southern, political party that Nixon dreamed of.
Do these folks even know the Constitution? Congress produces spending bills. Not the Executive Branch. The EB can send down draft legislation, guidelines, principals. But Congress writes the Bills…
So there is “No Bill” mainly because the Republicans and Blue Dogs have played the “we aren’t gonna do anything the President or the Democrats want”.
Of course, maybe he was taunting.
It was interesting to me the nod given to McCain,by Obama, and the “shoutout” given by a SC Congresscritter.
It put me in mind of an earlier SC mis-adventure by McCain,and his OWN SC campaign manager,back in the brutal election of 2000 where the ugly rumor were spread about McCain’s adopted daughter.
Here’s an excerpt from the Nation:
Senator John McCain’s misadventure with the neo-Confederate movement in the 2000 South Carolina primary provides a cautionary tale that must not be lost on George Allen.
Facing George W. Bush in South Carolina, McCain hired Richard Quinn as his state field manager. Quinn was an editor of the neo-Confederate magazine Southern Partisan, and a frequent critic of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, who he once dubbed a “terrorist.” Before the primary, Quinn organized a rally of 6,000 people in support of flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse. Quinn dressed up McCain volunteers in Confederate Army uniforms as they passed fliers to the demonstrators assuring them that McCain supported the Confederate flag.
As soon as news spread that McCain had called for removal of the Dixie flag from the statehouse, the SCV’s Richard T. Hines funded the distribution of 250,000 fliers accusing McCain of “changing his tune” and describing Bush as “the [only] major candidate who refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol.” Bush surged ahead of McCain and took South Carolina, dooming McCain’s presidential hopes. (The Nation, 11 Sept. 2006)
How about a dog?
Yeah, Rush, whatever you want to believe. Nobody else can believe it, because we don’t know what the fuck you think you’re on about.
It’s terrible when facts get in the way of the cartoonish view of the Confederacy promoted by conservatives.
I think his head implant receives signals from an unknown source.
I was injecting a bit of sarcasm.
This just in……………
After phoning his apology to the president, Joe Wilson got an invite to the White House for a few beers. That should take place sometime next week. Wilson said he prefers Billy Beer but the president said he wasn’t sure he could get his hands on any of it.
I like it, although not including Michele Bachmann might just piss her off. Promise her the position of “Secretary of Tin Foil Hats” and that should calm her down. Can we fit Glenn Beck in The Big (circus) Tent, too?
Wilson later added that moonshine was fine too.
Constitution? Try talking to one of these clowns sometime, they just laugh at that. These are supplied talking points coming from Rove, it is
orchestrated to get the know nothings to keep up the noise level. It is
a filibuster, nothing more or less.
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen (Page 4)Aug 29, 2006 … Countdown : Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the racist … Senator John McCain’s misadventure with the neo-Confederate movement … Facing George W. Bush in South Carolina, McCain hired Richard Quinn as his state field manager. Quinn was an editor of the neo-Confederate magazine Southern …
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/george_allen/4 – Cached – Similar
But Addison “Joe” Wilson’s outburst means that the Republican Party will become even smaller. There is hope. One precinct at a time; one county at a time; one Congressional District at a time; one media market at a time.
And we don’t start from zero. We have John Spratt and Jim Clyburn already and 40-something percent of voters. Shaking loose the country club and economic Republicans is what will do it.
MSNBC reporting that several reich wingers including Randall Terry and Freedom works were at wilson’s office to congratulate him.
At TPM there’s a YouTube of Wilson speaking to the press. He’s a nervous piece of garbage and tries to turn it into talking about health care. He’s a mess.
I was fortunate that my parents were not racists, though one grandfather was and the other was a bit unclear on what was going on (he was an Ozark hillbilly) and reflexively used the N-word (of course sonofabitch was also about every third word out of his mouth). Plenty of it out in the community, however. I remember when the company my father worked for hired a black engineer and he was looking for a house not far from where we lived and the neighbors had a hissy fit about the idea of a black man moving in. I think he wound up turning down the job as a result.
First Quinn, later Palin – McCain sure knows how to pick ‘em.
Maybe she could be appointed as Czar of Tin Foil Hats.
The good news today is that John Stossel is moving to Fox – of course.
Here it is.
Commenter Montag at Dependable Renegade highlights Wilson’s restraint. After all, he didn’t holler, “You lie, boy!”
Is it the same interview as this one?
Why am I not surprised?
This is something that the democratic spokesmen should be bringing up and confronting. A good deal of the protest against this President is because he is a Black Man. You did not get the outcry about speeches when Clinton was in and they hated what he stood for. They did not feel they needed to get their country back. The socialism is just a fig leaf for their uglier underbelly. They have always thought all Democrats are socialists. They are going guano crazy because their country has been seized by a minority. This was not supposed to happen. It was not that long ago, in their world, where they would not have to eat, sleep or use the restroom in the same facilities with these people. It doesn’t make it any more palatable that he went to and excelled in the most prestigious eastern schools. These are bigots. They need to be confronted as such. When one says he is not sure about the President’s birth certificate, rather than repeat again how this has been debunked, merely confront them on their racisim.
Is he taking Beck’s place?
Don’t forget Carl Lindner of Ohio, his big buddy from United Fruit,whose company was funding terrorist Colombian Hit Squads for years.
And McCain’s spiritual advisors Rod Parsley,an Ohioan TV evangelist-AND- John Hagee of CUFI,Christians United for Israel.
Yeah, he sure know how to pick em…NOT!
Yes, it is. Sorry. Didn’t realize it was already up.
Confederate flags belong in museums…not flying over State legislatures. There is nothing “honorable” about either building ones society and culture on blatant racism, nor on the hundreds of thousands of deaths that resulted in a pig-headed devotion to those “principles”.
These folks haven’t progressed much beyond the time when my ancient ancestor, Robert Mays Smith, brought his slaves from South Carolina to California…and lost them in a habeas corpus court-case a year prior to the Dred Scot decision. They misunderstand the difference between understanding ones history and acting like their ancestors.
wilson is a coward. He should have thrown his shoe.
Treason in defense of slavery.
I was waiting for
“I have it on good authority that that negro sold his soul to the Devil!”
“I have it on good authority that that negro sold his soul to the Devil!”
Devil is not currently buying as the Republicans have so devalued the market that they are giving them away and Hell is full.
Interesting that the same people who’d fly a Confederate flag probably hate it when immigrants fly the Mexican flag…even though they lost a war with the U.S., too.
“I have it on good authority that that negro sold his soul to the Devil!”
sshhhhhhh….. You never know – Charlie Daniels could be lurking,and lord knows that freak doesn’t need any new ideas.
EDIT: well, actually he needs *lots* of new ideas, just not that one….
Not such a bad idea…the whores moving to the redlight district. Makes ‘em easier to spot.
No offense to hard-working, um, working girls, of course…
FWDiva
Thanks Ann. The clip is a scream. He looks like his head is going to explode.
To give the idiot a break, the bill does not specifically exclude aliens from outer space.
Let’s not slight the rent boys here (Rush would be soooo disappointed).
Almost dropped my lunch on the keyboard!! Good One!!
You’re welcome, and don’t forget to recommend (it’s not mine, but it’s deserved!).
Rep Wilson will you not call out this liar – FORMER Rep. Duvall ?
Oops. you’re soooo right. Didn’t mean to be sexist, there.
FWDiva
oh, and one more thing
did everyone see this ?!?!?
Bush was and still is a liar. And what happened to those people who did call him a liar or didn’t particularly agree with is politics????? The Republicans deemed them “Unpatriotic or Un-American.” Why don’t these rules apply to those who are spreading lies and being disrespectful to this president? Because they’re a bunch of Hyprocrits. “Do as I say, Not as I do” style politicians who keep getting caught with their pants down…literally.
They’re not real ‘merikans.
$400,000 in new campaign contributions since last night.
http://politicalwire.com/archi…..tical-wire
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Hey Joe, meet the ” Bachmann Effect “.
The Southern Poverty Business Model
Maybe that’s why Wilson looked so unnerved. Hope we can defeat him.
Been to Arkansas lately?
Just last August ,there was a 100 year Memorial to the Confederate Soldier Ceremony in Bentonville.(That’s the home of WalMart,btw.)
John McCain flew in especially for the occassion.
Here’s a snippet from Jonah Tebbet’s blogspot,August 7,2008–linky to follow._______________________________
You think McCain would have learned his lesson in SC in 2000,right?
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Big Day in Benton County
The Confederate soldier, a few blocks from Wal-Mart Headquarters in the heart of the Bentonville Square, will celebrate his 100th birthday this week. The city’s Confederate monument was erected through the efforts of James H. Berry Chapter No. 821 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and by A. J. Bates, a Bentonville businessman.
Organizers say they are hoping no one will fly Confederate flags, at least during the event. Not everyone seems to appreciate the importance of the monument to the residents of Benton County, and the county has spent $1,600 to replace its balls stolen by vandals.
Barack Obama, whose Arkansas ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Late Unpleasantness, is not planning to attend the ceremony. Senator John McCain is flying into XNA and will be bringing his campaign message to Benton County that day. Having chosen the day of the Confederate ceremony to catch local Republicans in a buoyant spirit, McCain will hold a $500-per-person reception later that day at the Embassy Suites on Pinnacle Hills Parkway in Rogers.
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Posted by Jonah at Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Rob Miller came within eight points of Addison “Joe” Wilson with little money in 2008. He supports EFCA; I read that at DKos. So he’s not a mealy-mouthed Southern Democrat who will immediately disappoint.
I threw him fifty I can’t really afford right now; hope others will send some his way as well.
@126
The Iconoclastjonah-tebbetts.blogspot.com/ – Similar
At 7:30 ET this morning it was down “for maintenance.”
his offense was on the floor of congress, his apology needs to be on the floor of congress
This would be the second time in less than a year that some Republican’s words raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for their opponent. At broad band speeds .
Can anyone imgaine a city in germany putting up some big heroic lead statue of an SS soldier, and having a ceremony around it once a year? the isrealis would blow it up!
Yes, that totally creeps me out. I want to take that link and send it to GOP HQ and ask them if they REALLY UNDERSTAND the fires they’re stoking with all the rhetoric. And if they do get it, they ought to be arrested.
And I read in The Nation that South Carolina’s Senate has NO WOMEN. Nice old boys’ club you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it. Oh wait, one of yer own just make a damned fool outta himself on the tube.
Some congressperson should demand that Wilson’s words be taken down. Also
some inquiry into jerking his reserve status should be made. Kick him in
the balls if they can be found.
You have no idea how many times I’ve sat down and started to calculate how much Simtex it would take to fell the huge flagpole that flies the largest Confederate battle flag ever.
I’m thinking an industrial size chainsaw at midnight.
Cutting torch is quick, quiet.
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serve in the military or work for the federal government, you will soon
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encouraged to donate a portion of your pay to the charity of your choice.
The national organization of the Sons of Confederate
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Camp Locator – Eligibility – Genealogy Assistance
http://www.scv.org/ – Cached – Similar
Dixiecrats Triumphant: The menacing Mr. Wilson – Reason MagazineTrent Lott’s dismal remarks in honor of Thurmond’s 100th birthday, especially Lott’s stated regret that Thurmond’s segregationist Dixiecrats failed to win …
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33906.html – Cached – Similar——————–
The coinkydinks just keep on piling up—wonder if they are relatives?
Not at all, I just had a bet on vegas who would play the race card 1st MSNBC or Clayburn from SC…
Eye on the prize:
TAKE 10 seconds to support health care reform on The Seminal:
Tell Congress to Support President Obama’s HCR Plan
Who is spreading lies? How do you say that the bill has no provisions to cover illegals? when in fact that bill says that hospitals or emergency rooms can’t ask to see proper documentation? If you want them to have medical coverage why don’t all you liberals and progressives start up a non-profit account to pay for them?
this is delicious. joe wilson’s son is running for attorney-general of SC. please read the comments on this online newspaper report and enjoy:
http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2…..-campaign/
Gimme a break, y’all. I’m a Nam vet. I. Blow. Shit. Up. *g*
What freaking planet were you living on during those yrs?
Yea, I’m sure MSNBC would report this..Did they also report that Glenn Beck due to his show has caused the NEA communications director Yosi Sergeant to resign? When Obama surrounds himself with radicals it comes back to haunt you….
Hoo boy, get a load of this,courtesy Wiki,from SCV entry:
On May 25, 2009, President Barack Obama garnered praise from SCV Commander Chuck McMichael, who stated, “He upheld the tradition of the office to which he was elected. I do intend to send him a thank you letter. This is the kind of thing that transcends politics.”
This statement was in response to Obama’s decision to continue the long standing tradition of the U.S. President sending a wreath to the Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day[6]. While doing that, Obama supports having the Confederate flag placed in a museum rather than a State House._WIKI______
Now wonder if the SCV will admonish it’s OWN member,Joe Wilson?Incidentally, I was QUITE surprised at the names in the roster of notable SCV members, over at the Wiki page. VERY surprised,indeed.
Rep. Joe Wilson (Royalist – Confederacy)is still trying to re-fight the Civil War. Give it up Joe, your side lost.
Det cord, not Cemtex.
That Sons of Confederate Veterans tie-in makes it clear to me. Conservative = Insurrectionist = Anti-America. Round them all up, and send them to Gitmo.
And as a truly great American once sad, “Make ‘em howl, boys, make ‘em howl.”
$554,000 as of 7:55 p.m. Eastern. This is by far the most effective way to shut him up: vote him out.
Man, is there a gris-gris on the name Joe Wilson?
I keep thinking about Valerie Plame…..and ANOTHER Joe Wilson ….
Thermite.