Posted on 10/13/2015 7:42:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jim Webb, aka the Democratic candidate most people didn't know existed before the first Democratic primary debate Tuesday night, is having a moment. Well, OK, maybe he just had one real moment so far tonight I'm talking about when Jim Webb shut down Anderson Cooper.
Here's how it went down: Copper asked the candidate about the time in 2006 when he called affirmative action "state-sponsored racism," and the fact that in 2010, he also wrote an op-ed saying affirmative action against whites. "Given that nearly half the Democratic Party is non-white, aren't you out of step with where the Democratic Party is now?" Cooper asked.
That's when Webb pretty much shut Cooper down and refused to be cut off by Cooper, going on this monologue instead.
"No, actually I believe that I am where the Democratic Party traditionally has been. The Democratic Party, and the reason I've decided to run as a Democrat, has been the party that gives people who otherwise have no voice in the corridors of power a voice. And that is not determined by race.
And as a clarification, I have always supported affirmative action for African Americans. That's the way the program was originally designed because of their unique history in this country, with slavery and the Jim Crow laws that followed. What I have discussed a number of times is the idea that when we create diversity programs that include everyone, quote, 'of color,' other than whites, struggling whites like the families in the Appalachian mountains, we're not being true to the Democratic Party principle of elevating the level of consciousness among our people about the hardships that a lot of people who happen to be have -- my culture, by the way." Personally, I'm not sure I buy it. But Twitter, of course, loved it. A few samplings:
The only thing I thought was good about the Democratic Debate is that they were civilized towards one another. But the problem was they were boring. So I guess they need some middle ground. The Republican Debates are a circus but exciting. Ours needs to be toned down. Comparing the two is sorta embarrassing.
The Democrats sure want to give a lot away though. I can see why young people would appeal to that.
HE is a huge Trojan Horse with his pro vet pro, 2nd amendment talk...watch out. The D next to his name is all you have to know.
I was in the Marine Corps when the United States Secretary of the Navy. I did not think he was a bad Secretary of the Navy.
I had some e-mail correspondence with him several years ago. He was all right ... for a ‘rat. And I’ve got Scot-Irish blood too.
I would support Webb over Yeb in a NY minute.
Good grief. Why aren’t you wonderfuls, posting some where else?
I thought he kicked a$$ on foreign policy make him sec of defense.
He sounds good, but votes party line pretty much all the time, but then won’t take blame for anything.
Considering he was SecNav under Reagan ...
If Webb and Bush wound up being the nominees, I would definitely vote 3rd party.
If I were forced to choose between them, however, it would be Webb by a landslide.
Even though he’s a democrat, he’s the only democrat up there who has the security of the US at heart.
Wonder how we get Webb to defeat Hillary and the others. Probably impossible, but it would be nice to play their game against them. They always wanted two liberals running (Obama, McCain; Obama, Romney; Hillary, Bush).
Webb vs Cruz or Trump would be better than versus any of the socialists on stage.
Well, you could say that slavery was here courtesy of the English. But the Democrats were later the most determined defenders of slavery (along with some Whigs).
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