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incorrectly says they did not have a permit to protest, unlike the nazis who had a permit. he ignores the fact they violated the terms of the permit. another senator weighed in today with this criticism of the president. what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority that moral authorities compromised when tuesday happens. there s no question about that. senator scott and corker were not alone today. senator richard bird of north carolina said the president is misguided in remarks about charlottesville. the president pushed it further today, clearly seeing the advantage and refocusing attention on confederate monuments, sad to see the history of culture of the great country ripped apart with removal of the beautiful statues and monuments. you can t change history, but can learn from it. who s next? washington? jefferson? so foolish. he said the beauty taken from the towns and parks will be greatly missed and never replaced. that was this morning.
with the horrible things that those folks would have done to my mom during that time for having a child that looks like me is unspeakable. my husband, who is a federal law enforcement officer who is black, they would have strung him up and did all kinds of things to him, too. and that s the kind of culture that he wants to remember during the civil war? he s picking sides here? it s infuriating to me that the president of the united states, instead of coming together and healing those wounds, he is ripping those emotional scars off in this country and not only is he ripping the scars off, ripping the wounds off, he s infecting them in a way that is so unbecoming to the office of the presidency. and it starts to erode the moral of the presidency and people no longer respect the moral high ground. one thing that is interesting about the statues and my dad s family comes from mississippi and in his town there s a statue
of robert e. lee outside the courthouse. they were put up not to remember and honor the history of the confederacy. they were put up to rewrite the history of the confederacy, to make it some grand, you know, adventure, some grand battle full of honor that it just was not. so it s not a remembrance of history. it s a rewriting of history. and many of these statues were put off to coincide with a surging of the ku klux klan. many of them were put up during the civil rights movement. they were put up to sow fear. but just to the point of what is happening in the republican party right now, this is a party that is in crisis and couldn t happen at a worst time. they are 15 months away from a midterm election and i used to chair the direct congressional chair campaign. rule number one, you never alienate your base if you re going into a competitive environment. the democrats may be on the verge of taking back the house.
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