{"id":22607,"date":"2015-06-24T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22607"},"modified":"2015-06-24T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:36:15","slug":"dont-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22607","title":{"rendered":"Don't Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/jim-webb-confederate-flag\">Mr Webb<\/a>. Do not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webb2016.com\/\">run for President<\/a> - especially not as a Democrat. It won't go well if you do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War. <strong>The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades. It should not be used in any way as a political symbol that divides us.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's far too late to stop the\u00a0Confederate <em><strong><blink>Battle Flag<\/blink><\/strong><\/em> from being used to divide the country, since the goal of the Confederacy was to literally <em>divide the country<\/em>. They seceded, remember? Formed an army, waved that flag around? Hundreds of thousands died as a result? <\/p>\n<p>And as for \"racist purposes\"? Again, too late! It's been a symbol of racism from its inception. The Confederacy was created to preserve slavery. That's no northerner's revisionist history, either. To know the Confederacy's intentions, we need only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/06\/what-this-cruel-war-was-over\/396482\/\">read the declarations of secession<\/a> that the Confederate states issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, Mr Webb. Do not run for President - especially not as a Democrat. It won't go well if you do. This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22615,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions\/22615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}