Remember the fuss over whether or not to fly the Confederate flag over the South Carolina state house? John McCain is against it, of course. He's been against it ever since he found out that being for it wasn't helping his Presidential prospects any.
Not only did he vote for it before he voted against it, but he dressed his supporters in Confederate uniforms during a campaign appearance. In 2000.
As the blogger Lambert so aptly puts it, "WTF"?
You will still hear it argued in some circles that the undeniably brave and dedicated soldiers of the Confederacy did not die for the cause of preserving slavery. This is absolutely true, but as irrelevant as it is to say that Casey Sheehan did not die for the sake of Halliburton price-gouging and Exxon oil-lease grabbing. For all practical purposes, he did and they did, and we the living will just have to deal with those unpleasant facts.
Unless of course you're John McCain, in which case the facts are what you choose for them to be at any given moment.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "You're asking me that because I'm black, aren't you?"\\
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