Posted on 12/02/2006 10:23:51 PM PST by jdm
Edited on 12/02/2006 10:28:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office. But Jim Webb, Democratic U.S. senator-elect from Virginia, has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator.
Will wrote his piece using the WaPo story as his source. That story eliminated one particular detail that had been posted here from THE HILL one day earlier-- namely that Webb had admitted to someone that he had been tempted to "slug" the President. I think the WaPo, great supporter of Webb that they were, intentionally sanitized the account so that it would be the dominant one, and yet he still comes off as a "boor."
Webb repeatedly said that the solution was diplomatic, not military. His "plan" is to engage in talks with the countries that have a "historical and cultural interest" in Iraq. According to him, those countries are Syria and Iran.
That's what he said.
I think you will find the problem being that the DC suburbs...
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Maryland turned even bluer in this this election by the switch of the tradidionally conservative southern Maryland counties from red to blue. I think this is a result of the Federal government getting ever larger, and federal employees of all stripes having a tendency to act like any other type of unionized employee -- voting to keep the purse open!
I didn't vote for Senator Larry Flynt. :-)
He gets 6 years to be the biggest ass he can be.
I just read your post about voting for Webb. I don't want to pile on here, but I am curious to know something. How do you feel about Webb's disrespect to the President recently and his later comment about wanting to "punch him out". Do you agree with his comments and his lack of respect towards President Bush?
Eventually we have to disenfranchise those people and ship them back where they came from or something.
They are ineducable.
Webb may have been a good junior officer, but it does NOT qualify him to be a Senator. So what if he did something brave in Vietnam. While it DOES put him somewhat higher than John "POGUE" Murtha and John F'n Kerry, it doesn't make him any more of an a-hole than he already is.
Remember that Benedict Arnold, Adolf Hitler, and Timothy McVeigh were war heroes too.
Webb's lack of class is indicative of his being influenced by the up-and-coming radical leftists and anarchists. Don't forget how many of these types, educated by the likes of Ward Churchill, will be entering our political system in the next 5 to 20 years. Pretty scary.
If things happened the way they have been reported to have happened, they were both wrong - - and disrespectful. I'm not certain we will ever know for sure, but I'll assume it happened. Webb was probably primed to fire back at Bush at some point. Bush gave him the opportunity by taking the bait. Sort of like we (or, at least, me) do around here. I've always been under the impression that Bush is very good in these kinds of settings. He should have sensed that Webb was half-cocked and defused the situation or smiled and walked away - gracefully. Webb has a son in Iraq and I sort of know how he feels. I have a son in Iraq. Maybe it's bad chemistry between the two or maybe Webb sees Bush as the one responsible for where his son is?
I don't believe FR was around, but we would have all celebrated if it had been when we heard about the Retired Army Colonel who refused the shake Clinton's hand at the occasion of his son, an Army Ranger Sergeant, receiving the CMH, posthumously, for action in Mogadishu. I think the good Colonel also told Clinton he wasn't fit to be President?
Maybe it's the rebellion or the defiance in me, but I sort of like Webb's attitude. We tend to celebrate a fantasy movie like "Mr Smith Goes to Washington." I sort of celebrate Mr. Webb going there. If he plays it right, maybe Hollywood will re-make the movie.
That wouldn't have been Al Gray, would it?
Brilliant. You admit that Jim Webb has no plan for Iraq, but you voted for him anyway to protest the war.
Fact is, Webb doesn't have a plan for anything other than being an arrogant jerk.
Check out Jerry's take on Webb's latest interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Jim Webb on Why He Won.
There were in this article eight questions posed with five follow-up questions. You see nine of them here. You also see in his answers Webb's complete lack of understanding of the issues before him: "I'm willing to look at that." "... I'm inclined to believe ..." "I've not been able to examine ..." "We'll have to take a look ..." "I'll have to see what the proposed ..." "We're working on that right now." "I have no opinion yet."
Brilliant use of your cognitive powers in voting there leadpenny.
Absolutely brilliant.
I aim to please. Thank you and you're welcome.
Come back here in 12 months and tell me the same thing.
Twelve months? Do you promise not to rant again until then?
"Beats me, but I suspect VA is getting a lot of transplants
from blue states."
And also from failed states (Muslim countries).
IIRC, writer Paul Sperry terms an area of N. Virginia as
"The Wahhabi Corridor"
http://www.sperryfiles.com/corridor.shtml
Nice alliteration.
Poetry utterly wasted on the gross indignity that is Jim Webb.
I used to have SOME respect for Webb.
Because I hadn't read his books!
Those passages that got publicized during the campaign revealed him to
be a trashier writer than Quentin Tarantino is a film-maker.
(at least Quentin Taratino never tried to pose as some criticism-exempt politician)
So you voted for the angry ignorant candidate?
Now there's a plan.
Why do you see Iraq as a failed policy???
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