The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website October 31, 2017:
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded on Oct. 31 to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly calling Robert E. Lee “an honorable man.” (Reuters)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders knew she would be asked Tuesday about John Kelly’s controversial comments about how Robert E. Lee was an “honorable man” and how the Civil War was the result of a lack of “compromise.” And she came prepared for the question.
“Look: All of our leaders have flaws,” Sanders began, reading from notes. “Washington, Jefferson, JFK, Roosevelt, Kennedy. That doesn’t diminish their contributions to our country. It certainly can’t erase them from our history. And General Kelly was simply making the point that just because history isn’t perfect doesn’t mean it’s not our history.” Continue reading “Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s defense of John Kelly’s Confederacy comments makes no sense”