Posted on 05/08/2008 9:22:16 AM PDT by freespirited
Off your meds again?
You know, Jim Webb for VP might be the one thing that would make me pound the pavement for McCain until my feet were bleeding...
The guy was the secretary of the Navy,graduated with honors from Anappollis, served in the US Marine Corps in a rifle company and saw a lot of shid in Nam.....A hell of a lot better record than any democrat on the ticket...Maybe he’ll be president someday...I’d trust him with that job too!!!
Read “Fields of Fire” his first of many novels All his combat novels have a message...It tells a guy something about the experinces he more than likely went through, and the charactor of what he’s about....
Like I say, he might be a Dem now but he once was a Republican....I believe he has good charactor,...That’s more important then his ‘effin politics!!!! At least it is
to me!
No, not it's not.
Yes, please. Take Webb and remove him from Virginia.
Seems the author, a professor emeritus, needs to do a little more research. Webb was a marine officer, not a naval officer.
And then he lost his mind.
Great choice. Obama would think he’s running with his wife Michelle since Webb is an angry person of color—his color usually being red...sort of like Slick Willie, the albino on spring break as Dennis Miller called him.
And I thought the $hit you said yesterday was the dumbest thing I had ever heard....
Don't forget to tell everyone here how much you hate Rush and that you will be voting for Obama.
The burden of this piece is that Obama should nominate a Democratic version of McCain. That might be wise.Because I think McCain should nominate a black. Webb would nominally be similar in competence as well as skin color and sex, but a Democrat. The point to McCain of nominating a black would be to similar in skin color and sex, but equal to or better than Obama in experience. That is, no executive experience necessary. Obama might profit from nominating a white with similar "moderate" politics to McCain; McCain OTOH would profit from nominating a black with conservative politics to balance his ticket and unite his party.
Awwwwwww poor little nightranger is all worked up....If Jim Webb becomes Obama’s VP Ya never know? I just might.I’m sick of being a Pubbie and that’s for sure, I could never be a Demonrat either....
If I do vote for Obama, I’ll let you know first, little ranger boy!!!!
Webb. He’s a freshman senator, less than 2 years experience. He had no other elected office before that.
He was a military man. He’s been a military man. He taught in a military college, where he harrassed women and maybe slept with one of his students.
He was Secretary of the Navy for a couple of years, did nothing of note in that office, and then was “resigned” out because nobody would listen to his opinion.
That was in the 80s. Since then he wrote books and I presume did something else other than live off his pensions.
He’s probably the only VP they could think of that makes Obama look experienced.
Webb won because Allen was successfully labeled as a racist who used the N-word throughout his career but was unwilling to admit it. The Democrats would vote for anything with a “D” after it, and in the end, attacks against Webb, especially for his books which were loved by the military, turned off the military vote for Allen. I don’t know if they voted for Webb, but they didn’t vote for Allen.
There’s no way the military vote in Virginia abandons McCain to vote for Webb. And that’s how Webb won, holding the democrats while getting enough of the military vote to swing. And as I said, that only worked because Allen’s campaign attacked salty language used in books as if Webb was some sort of pervert (books that McCain had recommended — one had a forward by McCain).
Allen only lost by 10,000 votes. He probably lost 5,000 when he denounced the confederate flag. He probably lost the other 5000 at least when he said military people should be ashamed that they read and enjoyed Webb’s books.
McCain won’t make those mistakes. Virginia could have been competitive for Democrats this year, with just about ANY republican candidate — except McCain. I just saw a poll that says McCain is up 10 to Obama here. Webb can’t make that big a difference.
Thanks for confirming my point — Allen’s campaign attacked Webb for his writing, but too many people have read and appreciated Webb’s books, even with the offensive scenes and words — so it was like Allen was attacking them personally.
When you claim, as others have here, that a book is pornographic, you aren’t just attacking the author, you are saying that the people who read that book read pornography.
His books were read by a lot of military people who vote Republican, and who probably didn’t want someone like Allen, who never served, criticizing their book choices.
Sorry...I thought your were old enough to vote.
As long as we're clear that those attacks were fabrications.
I blame Wadhams much more than Allen. Yes, Allen said the "m-word." But Wadhams didn't understand Allen or Virginia. And his recent comments underscore that.
That said, you're spot on about Webb. The military won't go for him over McCain. It may be that McCain is the one candidate who can keep Virginia in the red column.
I believe your choice of the first person pronoun ("When you claim...") might serve to convey a false impression. Otherwise, you do appear to understand that I am not claiming the book is pornographic - quite the opposite, actually. I think your intent was to criticize others for not reading the book themselves before passing judgment. Again, I think that Fields of Fire is a terrific work of literature, and the characters that Webb created - Goodrich, Snake, Baby Cakes, and Hodges - have stayed with me for many years after I first read it.
Webb vs. McCain in a Presidential race would be like Bligh vs. Queeg. Would be fun to watch, and it would be a good move for Obama, though probably not for Webb.
You are right, I did not make that clear. They were just allegations, which he denied.
You are right, I meant “you” as in “the campaign”.
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