Webb bows out.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., says he does not want to be vice president… Webb also said he would campaign hard to help Obama win the battleground of Virginia in the general election. “He is a man who speaks eloquently about our national goals and calls for the practical solutions that must be put into place to obtain them,” he said. “I will proudly campaign for him.”
Probably just as well. Hillary’s cadres still have their noses out of joint, feeling that their candidate was too roughly handled during the primary campaign. On account of her gender!
Picking a Scots-Irish populist, pro-guns, “Women Can’t Fight” guy as your number 2 – while it might have appealed to the expat, military retiree divorc?
Seems that Mr. O’s most excellent oratory skills are not so much up to the challenge of containing his domestic enemies….
Can we Believe he will be any more sucessful with those even more implacable foreign enemies of our very existence?
Webb 1) doesn’t desire to be superman’s second, and 2) doesn’t want to taint his own future bid for the ring.
By then we’ll be pining for a sensitive guy with a gun.
Is anybody thinking that there aren’t a whole lot of Dems really interested in the position?
Hey! I think the world of expat, military retiree divorcé cohort (s). They are pretty cool guys.
And say what you want-it was still a great article. I still have a copy in my files.
Besides, if a guy who wrote “Just say no!” ( To women on ships) can make CAG-why can’t Webb be Vice President?
Except he is more useful as a Senator and even the Dems know that.
I’m an unreformable knuckle dragger who happens to endorse Webb’s views on women in combat. Had not seen the article before. Very well argued, but then I’m Scots-Irish so I’m easily swayed.
If Webb still holds similar views, I can understand his not wanting the V.P. spot.
Sec Def and a chance to reorganize the Academies sounds like something he might take.
There’s a good idea!
I like Webb’s books, but he is a shallow, unoriginal opportunist political whore. He has no internal principles of his own. He follows the polls and tells the feverish Dem hoardes exactly what they want to hear.
Come to think of it, he just might be Democratic Presidential material after all.
Ditto what Nav said. What finally tweaked my attitude about Webb was his response to the Boss a couple years back about how he and the Dems would ’show him the way’. Presumptious Bast**d.
Navig8r, Re your comment # 7 above… Agree completely with your assessment of Webb…an opportunistic dim bulb indeed.
That said… do a re-read of your first paragraph after substituting McCain for Webb in the first sentence and GOP for the Dems in the last sentence… cuts painfully close … does it not? Best
Snake, the delta between McCain and Webb is important. McCain usually does what he thinks is right, even if it is unpopular (and I disagree with him fairly regularly, BTW). Webb, on the other hand, does what he thinks is popular, even if it isn’t right.