And I thought McDonnell was relatively sane. Sigh, why celebrate the Confederacy. I don’t think everyone who was part of the Confederacy was evil but we need to remember that the system they were fighting to preserve kept human beings in slavery. A black classmate of mine pointed out that very well when we were talking about the confederacy last semester. It used to be here in Virginia that we’d celebrate MLK Day and “Lee-Jackson Day.” I’ve never gotten Confederate romanticism. The Confederates were let’s face it traitors.