Democratic Response of Senator Jim Webb To the President’s State of the Union Address

Drudge ^ | Jan 23, 2007

[Revolting cat!]

Jim Webb oughta get back to songwriting. We've been waiting for the follow-up hit to MacArthur Park for 40 years!

[Uri’el-2012]

Isn't Webb the child pornographer?

[BillyBoy]

>> You got that right. He was elected by all the non-Virginians (DamnYankee liberals) living in Northern Virginia. <<

Ah, the tired ol' "blame the evil yankee transplants in northern VA"

Perhaps you can explain why Jim Webb won MORE counties in "conservative southern Virgina" than "damnyankee liberals living in Northern Virgina". I hate to break the news to you, but if the ONLY counties Webb had won had been in "liberal northern VA", Allen would have carried the statewide election handily.

Some of the many SOUTHERN Virgina areas for Webb include: Dickerson, Buchanan, Russell, Allegheny, Roankoke, Northhampton, Southhampton, Greensville, Brunswick, Matthews, Westmoreland, Montgomery, Martinsville, Norfolk, Salem, Petersburg, Portsmouth, and of course, Richmond.

By my count, Webb won about three, perhaps four counties in "northern Virgina" by the D.C. area, but well over 20 areas in "true conservative southern Virgina"

Ah, but just ignore Webb voters who don't fit your stereotype, right?

Oh, and FYI, Webb is a big-time "Scots-Irish confederate hertiage" kinda guy.

[loveliberty2]

And what was this distortion of Andrew Jackson's philosophy to fit his own political ideology? Webb said: "President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy -- that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street."

Perhaps Webb failed to read Jackson's Farewell Speech, which contained warnings about the tendency of those elected to power to "enlarge the powers of the General Government" and of the need for the people to curb what he called unconstitutional taxing and taking of their own wealth. He warned of the dangers of "paper money" whereby the people's earnings could be inflated away (sounds like he foresaw the Federal Reserve's printing of money). Hard to believe Jackson would ever support the socialist idea of forced redistribution of wealth advocated by Webb and the Democrats.

Jackson's Farewell remarks to the nation contained these final words:

"You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons. It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping." Webb might have been well advised to read more of Jackson before using him for his own petty political purposes.

[singfreedom]

Thank you, thank you---and your son too! My husband was a career soldier and we have, both, expressed the same argument to some of our liberal acquaintances. IF we were taking horrific casualties, the point MIGHT be valid, but we aren't, so its moot. Everyone, who is worth a damn, realizes there are things that are worth fighting for, and we think our country's safety is one of them.

FRegards to your young man.

[BillyBoy]

>> You're the guy who said the Libs in Northern Virginia put Webb in. Yet, they are readily outvoted by Republicans in many statewide elections, so they didn't do it by themselves. They needed help. Unreconstructed types gave it to them because they were attracted to Webb's antisemitism and fascism. Guess I hit close to home eh?! <<

Shhh. Don't try to cite facts with the "it's all the fault of damnyankee transplants in northern VA" crowd. They're cover their ears and go "lalalalala". Until they decide to accept their are RAT lovers living amongst them in "conservative southern VA", you can expect more Warners, Kaines, and Webb's elected statewide.

During Mark Warner's election, some Virgina freeper warned that Warner was picking up votes from so-called "conservatives" and tried to explain to them that plenty of commie RATs were elected in Virgina back in the 60s and 70s before anyone even lived in "damnyankee northern Virgina". Hell, their hero Robert E. Lee was from their so-called "damnyankee northern Virgina" and plenty of New Deal FDR Dems won Virgina handily for decades. But no matter, that freeper was shouted down into submission for daring to suggest there are any native Democrats in Virgina. Facts are like kryptonite to this crowd.

[singfreedom]

That remark stunned me too!! My nephew just re-upped and all his friends have as well. WHERE IS THIS GUY GETTING HIS "FACTS"? He's wrong on the soldiers supporting the mission, the "end" of the Korean War, the general economic condition of the country, and God knows what else! This is more than just mere misrepresentation. His staff needs to start doing some serious fact checking before this jerk's "socialistic tendencies" run away with him completely!

There are still to many of us living who REMEMBER how the Korean War went down!!

[singfreedom]

I think you need to call Mr. Webb's office tomorrow and read them those quotes. I'm sure they would find them enlightening. I hope they would, anyway. Those are some great bits. Thanks for posting them.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Not a precipitous withdrawal...But an immediate shift...a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq...he's really good with words - he's managed to come up with a distinction without a difference........

[mtntop3]

Webb cannot make any statement without droning on about "I, me, and my."

I just wonder what his father would think about Webb in effect saying the Berlin Airlift was useless....that Truman and Eisenhower should have fled from Korea before South Korea was secured against the Communist invasion from the North.

Webb shows every sign of being an outright egomaniac. He simultaneously resides in an imaginary, created world (he was going to punch out the President when the President inquired about Webb's son serving in Iraq.)

His "We'll lead the way (out of Iraq)!!" sounded psychotic (and what flows in, Senator Webb, after that - do you remember the millions of deaths in Vietnam after we fled, Senator????)

[mtntop3]

Well noted and said.

[hinckley buzzard]

Jackson was nothing but an extension of the White League/White Line in the south. The Republicans couldn't hold the line on re-construction because of the DemoRat's,

umm, Jackson served well before the Civil War. You're thinking of someone else.

[CutePuppy]

Not only he was wrong historically about Ike's role in Korea, but if he thinks that North Korea is a shining example of a desired result in Iraq, he's even more nuts than I thought him to be.

[California Patriot]

Good point.

[Lexinom]

When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it’s nearly 400 times.

This is one of very, very few points on which I agree with the Democrats. Corruption in corporate management runs rampant, wherein families' lives can be destroyed by a simple decision that will have no long-term impact on profits but will help some executive achieve his quarterly bonus.

That said, I'm not of a mind that government is the answer to this very real problem - clearly the conclusion Webb would like us to draw.

[Just A Nobody]

Where is his evidence for this charge about our military?

There is none! In fact there is a great deal of evidence to disprove him and call him a liar!

[CutePuppy]

Maybe he wants to extrapolate that to Hollywood where stars who earn millions per picture could share their wealth with extras who earn $100 per day, or at least with a key grip.

And most of them aren't even running multi-billion dollar companies or responsible for many thousands of jobs and investors.

[napscoordinator]

Korea was and is Truman's failure.



And he got an air craft carrier named after him???? I am not sure you have the right person blamed here maybe you have the name wrong.

[nopardons]

bttt

[napscoordinator]

Oh my gosh. Virginia is bluer than I thought. We just might lose Virginia in 2008. This is horrible!!!