Posted on 11/30/2006 8:53:43 AM PST by Dark Skies
Newly elected Senator Jim Webb, D-Va., was so infuriated by a remark from President George W. Bush that the former Marine officer was tempted to punch the commander-in-chief.
The confrontation, disclosed in the influential Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill, came shortly after the midterm elections at a private White House reception for newly elected lawmakers.
Webb, who defeated Republican Sen. George Allen in Virginia, ran a campaign critical of the administration’s Iraq policy, and has a son, a Marine lance corporal, serving in Iraq.
At the reception, Bush asked Webb how his son was doing.
Webb answered that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, a source close to Webb reported.
The Associated Press quoted Webb as saying, "I told him I'd like to get them out of Iraq."
"I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush countered, according to the source.
Emily Heil wrote in The Hill: "Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t.”
Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd confirmed that "Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner. Basically, he asked about Jim’s son; Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.”
Todd wouldn’t comment on Bush’s response.
I can't say that I am surprised. They probably moved to Virginia and registered to vote as part of their caliphate plans. It sickens me.
LLS
Remember couple years ago Dubya came this decking Chilan secuirty they rough up his SS agent Remember
Brilliant translation!
OH guess who is little whiney little b***h
LAZ that classic too funny
Maybe he'd like time in Leavenworth. Officers generally do not act this way. Webb is cerainly no officer or gentleman. I would be pleased if the President asked how anyone I knew, especially my son, was doing in a combat zone. Webb reminds me of a punk.
"Jim Webb Threatens to 'Slug' President Bush"
Spot on!! That's the first thing I noticed.
It is a far cry from thinking about slugging a man, than threatening to actually do it. One can think all they want about me, but threaten me, and I will rip the idiots throat out.
That pedophile writing fool is a one term pony, if that.
Ok, but only if they are all anatomically correct males.
Inaccurate title.
BTW, hello SM from South Georgia.
Hi Dark - I'm actually not from Stone Mountain though - it's a translation of my last name!
The second was a pain-therapy series of sessions where the therapist taught pain management techniques that, most of them, anyway, if not all of them, are relaxation methods. Breathing, imaging, automatic suggstions. They are utterly mechnical to apply once trained and initially practised and can really lower the old internal tension level very quickly.
The third, well I guess it was anger management. And it did help reduce my explodability factor a few orders of magnitude. But it wasn't aimed directly at "managing anger" whatever that means. You can't manage anger any more than you can manage lightning.
What that counselor taught was how to communicate. How to listen and how to engage in a "directed" converstaion. How to converse in a way that makes sure both parties understand that the other party has heard and understood what each was saying. That has been a real help in my life.
And any one of those techniques would have saved Mr. Webb his most embarassing predicament, which surely embrasses not only himself (where that embarassment may be transformed into anger, for failure to admit it for what it is) and for his family, friends, co-workers and mostly for his own dear son. Every son is dear to a father, no matter who angry that father may be at times.
U. S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) also threatened the president with physical attack after Hurricane Katrina. It's part of the new Jackass Party image, setting an example for the youth of America.
Yes sir, Laz, that was a most selfish response and ignorant of the dad's own son, just as Cindy Sheehan is selfish and ignorant of her own (once beloved) son Casey. She made her son into a stuffed shell of a painted memory at her own sideshow, and Dad Webb could well be on the same road.
Nice thought... but VA has a rat guv, so it would have no effect. He would probably appoint ex-guv Mark Warner.
I would have been more thrilled at what the Secret Service would have done to Pig Face had he decked the President.
The State of Virginia is going to rue the day that they elected this POS to the Senate. Without all those transplanted Yankees that infest Northern Virginia, it wouldn't have happened.
If I had a son in Iraq, the war would be more personal than if I were directing said war. I therefore give more leeway to the father's tone. Bush could have defused the situation with a more consoling tone and been the better man. He didn't.
It sounds like your testosterone level probably dropped during that time! LOL
Seriously, some of those counseling sessions can be really valuable.
Man. The leftists just HATE it when the spawn of their loins actually manage to think for themselves after YEARS of socialist indoctrination, don't they?
God Speed Young Webb and bring him home safe so he can punch his own Daddy in the nose! :)
heehee!
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