Posted on 06/22/2008 1:08:59 PM PDT by Coffee200am
WASHINGTON — The Marines, in full dress uniform, perform their summer drills in silence, flipping their rifles in near-perfect precision in front of the Iwo Jima memorial, illuminated by the glow of sunset.
One man, the guest of honor, stands stock-straight at the center of the pageantry, Marines on both sides, watching as they pass.
Order. Precision. Tradition. Just across the Potomac River from his Senate office, this is Jim Webb's world.
The first-term senator from Virginia has built a life around a deep love for the military. His sons have followed him, with one serving in the Marines in Iraq.
"It's very personal to us," Webb would say later of that evening.
Webb, 62, has had an almost absurd number of careers since leaving the Marine Corps in the early 1970s. But there's one more role he could yet play: Barack Obama's saving grace.
It is widely speculated that Obama will need to choose a vice presidential nominee versed in national security matters, perhaps with a strong military background, to attempt to blunt the edge his opponent, John McCain, carries in those arenas.
Webb seems made-to-order for that, a character right out of one of his novels. His careers keep evolving. Lawyer. Defense analyst. Journalist. Pentagon bureaucrat. Novelist. Screenwriter. Emmy-winning filmmaker. Businessman. And now, politician.
Not only is he serious-minded about military matters to the point of preoccupation, a self-described citizen-soldier who walks battlefields across the world and writes of blood oaths and the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, he is a former member of the Reagan administration and a decorated war hero who has been a loud critic of the Iraq War.
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He’s all these things and one more. He’s close to being certifiably bipolar.
yah...just what Obman needs: another sitting US Senator...
He’s either a communist, an islamist or an idiot. There is no other possibility for a democrat.
If one Senator sucks as being POTUS, then two would make it grand!
It probably has been certified, we just don’t know about that!
He’s also a TERRIBLE novelist.
Take him. He’s a klutz.
Obambi better wise up to the fact that a lot of votes cast for him in Virginia were not for him, but against Hillary and cast by Indies who will vote for McCain.
“He’s either a communist, an islamist or an idiot. There is no other possibility for a democrat.”
Don’t underestimate him.
He's a wackos for sure.
Please Obama pick him for VP because somewhere along the line he is going to blow up and say something so wacko, so inane, so moronic Obama will spend weeks flapping his lips to cover his mistake.
He will not help Obama win Virginia, either.
Why do they bother? Every time the left trots out one of their resident military folk it always looks so contrived. Everyone at this point knows what they think of the military. John Murtha has taken care of that. All this does is highlight their lack of respect for the military because it amounts to pandering.
There are only a few Marines who I consider as Ex-Marines. Murtha and Webb make my list!
Jim Webb is a frickin psycho. He should not be in office.
He’s either a communist, an islamist or an idiot. There is no other possibility for a democrat.
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Democrats do not accept limitations, they can be all three!
Any man who writes pedophilia into his fiction books is a disgusting pig.
I don't care why or how he came to such a decision to put that filth in his book. It was vile, no matter how they spin it.
Did James Oliphant forgot to mention Webb’s porn novel?!
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