Jim Webb on the Colbert Report

Webb Says "No" to V.P.

Suck. Oh, well. Go Biden, I guess.

Jim Webb on Point for Obama and the Dems

This article in the Wall Street Journal today paints a detailed and compelling picture of our favorite Senator. The most amazing thing about the article (and Senator Webb) and probably the reason he WON'T be picked for Vice President, is that it paints a picture of a politician who is...a real person (gasp)! Check it out if you want to read a profile of a man who will be a major player with positive effects on America for years to come.

Jim Webb Counters McCain

Jim Webb introduced Obama at a rally in Virginia today. Yesterday he was interviewed by The Huffington Post and again proved why he is an awesome Senator and would be an awesome running mate for Obama. For example, here is his response to the flap McCain is trying to instigate about Obama traveling to Iraq to talk to Gen. Petreus: "If you know who to listen to, if you know how to make judgments, if you know how evaluate information, you can do that. I don't think Franklin Roosevelt was ever at the front in France during WWII in order to help end the war." That's his polite way of saying, "Suck it, McCain!" Obama/Webb '08

Obama/Webb 2008

www.obamawebb08.com Draft Jim Webb Petition

A Time to Fight

I'm not sure how I missed this but our favorite Senator Jim Webb has written a new book: "Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people, rather than special interests, and for restoring the country's standing around the world. Webb exposes how America has entered a dangerous, unprecedented cycle of seemingly unsolvable unknowns. Our economic policies, particularly in this age of globalization, have produced widely divergent results leading to a country calcifying along class lines. Our demographic makeup has been altered dramatically and is set to keep on changing, through both legal and illegal immigration. Our editorialists and politicians talk about the American dream, and some urge us to bring democracy to the rest of the world. But more than two million Americans are now in prison, by far the highest incarceration rate in the so-called advanced world. Our foreign policy is confused, without clear direction; increasingly vulnerable to such largely unexamined long-term threats as China's emerging power while it has become bogged down in the never-ending struggles of the Middle East. As this drift toward societal regression has taken place, America's leadership has largely been paralyzed, unable or unwilling to stop the slide. 'Where are the leaders?' Webb asks. 'Has our political process become so compromised by powerful interest groups and the threat of character assassination that even the best among us will not dare to speak honestly about the solutions that might bring us back to common sense and fundamental fairness?'" Looks like I've got something to read once I finish Fareed's book. Speaking of Jim Webb, Slate has an article about the possibility of him becoming Obama's VP and it just happens to feature...ME! (Only in the fifth paragraph, no less.) Despite his protestations to the contrary, this book is perfectly timed to coincide with the start of the "Veepstakes". (Although, apparently, John Edwards is interested in VP - I think he would be better as Attorney General, though.) I think it would be an unstoppable combination. [Sign the Draft Jim Webb for VP petition.]

Jim Webb for VP

As much as I think he is an excellent Senator for us in Virginia, I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment: "Obama Should Pick Webb for Running Mate" I do think it would help him if he would declare his support for Obama already, however. I also find it deliciously ironic that Webb, who no one had heard of before 2006, would be on a Presidential ticket after beating George Allen, who would be the Republican nominee if Webb hadn't gotten into the 2006 Senate race in the first place. God, that was time well spent. I love it when a plan comes together.

Webb Is Kind of Awesome. Isn't He?

"Mass Incarceration in the United States: At What Cost?"

Hagel and Webb to Introduce Binding Iraq Legislation

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) announced on "This Week" that either tomorrow or Tuesday, he and Jim Webb will introduce binding legislation to change course in Iraq. This legislation will have the "force of law" - no more non-binding resolution crap. It will focus on redeployment, training, and equipment. Hagel also said that we are "destroying" our military; the surge is failing; and he raised the specter of impeachment. Unity 08 ticket: Hagel/Webb?