Jim Webb's "Macaca?"

“The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday’s America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today. The greatest disservice on this count has been the attempt by these revisionist politicians and academics to defame the entire Confederate Army in a move that can only be termed the Nazification of the Confederacy.”

- Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb. as quoted in his 2004 tome, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America.”

The real "dream ticket?"

Webb's rebel roots: An affinity for Confederacy
By: David Mark
June 11, 2008 07:29 AM EST

Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as it goes about the business of scouring the backgrounds of possible running mates. But it’s unlikely they’ll find one so curious as Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb’s affinity for the cause of the Confederacy.

Webb is no mere student of the Civil War era. He’s an author, too, and he’s left a trail of writings and statements about one of the rawest and most sensitive topics in American history.

He has suggested many times that while the Confederacy is a symbol to many of the racist legacy of slavery and segregation, for others it simply reflects Southern pride. In a June 1990 speech in front of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, posted on his personal website, he lauded the rebels’ “gallantry,” which he said “is still misunderstood by most Americans.”

Webb, a descendant of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s, and seemed to suggest that states were justified in trying to secede.

I suppose this is as good a time as any to say, "If John McCain had someone who praised the Confederacy on his VP short list blah blah blah.

Webb is widely considered to be on Obama's short list of VP candidates. The media are alrealy downplaying the Virginia Democrat's sympathies to the Confederacy, however.

Leave it to liberals to excuse in themselves what they condemn in others. Liberal hypocrisy is widely documented. No need to restate the obvious.