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Jim Webb Announces 2016 Presidential Run
NBC News ^ | 07/02/2015

Posted on 07/02/2015 11:50:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb announced in an email Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president.

"I understand the odds, particularly in today's political climate where fair debate is so often drowned out by huge sums of money," Webb said in the email.

"But our country needs a fresh approach to solving the problems that confront us and too often unnecessarily divide us," he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016demprimary; 2016election; election2016; jimwebb; president; virginia; webb2016
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To: Dante3
Webb's measured statement last week on the Confederate flag hysteria probably disqualifies him from getting a single RAT vote. Remember when Howard Dean, as head of the DNC, said the Party had to appeal to guys with Confederate flags on the back of their pickups? Good times. Maybe that's the demographic Webb is going after.

On the other hand Webb staunchly opposed the Iraq war from the very beginning, and a number of RATs have never forgiven Hillary! on that score.

Webb may be running for VP.

21 posted on 07/02/2015 12:59:57 PM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Webb FAILED the very first test...he is a democrat. In 2015 that means he is intentionally aligned with the forces that are destroying this nation.

Unfortunately, the same will be said for republicans soon.

22 posted on 07/02/2015 1:29:46 PM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

I felt the same heady rush when I heard Pataki was running.


23 posted on 07/02/2015 2:27:24 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind; jjotto; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT

Er, forgive me, but you sound somewhat...favorably disposed to this traitorous (used Reagan connection to win as a rat) racist (came out during his rat Senate campaign) liberal (ACU lifetime rating 17%, there isn’t a RINO in the party to his left, not Jeb, not Connie Friggin Morella) democrat scumbag.

At least one has books was a nasty pedo sex fantasy with father on son perversion.


24 posted on 07/02/2015 2:57:06 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

One of HIS books.


25 posted on 07/02/2015 2:57:58 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure, you bet, Jimmy. So, are you still writing pederast homo incest stories? How about “fluffing”, your combat record, you phony bastard?


26 posted on 07/02/2015 3:24:21 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Sybeck1

The 60th vote for Obamacare


I thought it was Ben Nelson, aka Cornhusker Kickback, who had that honor.


27 posted on 07/03/2015 6:12:48 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: RedHeeler

Resume enhancers, for libs, don’t forget.


28 posted on 07/03/2015 6:13:24 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: JimRed; SeekAndFind
And what difference, Mr. Webb, do you offer? Are you only communist-lite?

Like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie?

Webb represents an almost extinct type of Democrat: a liberal rather than a radical. He has more in common with Democrats like Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, and Tip O'Neill than with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. He isn't a conservative by any stretch, but he is a throwback to the days when Democrats were a sane opposition as opposed to subversive enemies.

29 posted on 07/03/2015 7:16:16 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

If this election is all about this country being governed by the lesser evil, I’d take Webb over the rest of the Democrat pack anytime.


30 posted on 07/03/2015 7:18:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

One thing in Webb’s favor is that unlike other Democrats (and many Republicans), he doesn’t feel the need to grovel before “minorities” on account of his heritage, he takes pride in it. He used to strongly oppose affirmative action and illegal immigration, not sure where he currently stands on those issues.


31 posted on 07/03/2015 7:24:56 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: plain talk

He has “evolved” on gay marriage. Need you ask for anything more?


32 posted on 07/03/2015 9:52:32 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: FiddlePig

He is from Virginia, he is trying to get the Southern vote.


33 posted on 07/03/2015 9:53:25 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: SeekAndFind
After his announcement, they had to take this new pic of all the folks who have announced (so far) that they are running for president in 2016:

(For the first time in history, there are more people running for president than there are voters -- unless you count all those voters who are no longer alive, but who continue to faithfully execute their civic duty to vote, year after year, and you also count -- in advance -- the hordes of Mexican voters who have not yet had the opportunity to sneak across the border.)

34 posted on 07/03/2015 10:17:04 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s also the guy that I believe scubbed John F’n Kerry’s service record of the charges that were made against him for schmoozing with the Chinese during the tail end of the war while still a reserve officer.

Basically it was treasonous. And a easy conviction.


35 posted on 07/03/2015 10:19:54 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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