Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb announced Thursday that "after many months of thought, deliberation and discussion" he has decided to run for president of the United States.
In an over 2,000-word blog post, Webb writes that he decided to run because the United States needs "proven, experienced leadership that can be trusted to move us forward from a new President's first days in office."
Highlighting his experience as a senator, decorated soldier and and secretary of the navy under Ronald Reagan, Webb cast himself as someone willing to fight on issues he cares about, including criminal justice reform, education and economic fairness.
Webb becomes the fifth Democrat to join the primary contest.
Personally I don't think that many Democrats are really going to pay much attention to a Jim Webb candidacy. Not with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sucking up all of the oxygen in the room at least.
Besides not only did Webb serve as Secretary of the Navy under Reagan, but he also recently came out in support of the Confederate Battle flag, which puts him at odds with virtually every other Democrat in the country.
I think that Jim Webb could be a valuable asset in a cabinet position, but I doubt he will receive serious consideration for the job of Commander-in-Chief.
However let me just add, Webb is still head and shoulders above any presidential choice on the Republican side of the aisle.
You know he was Barack Obama's first choice for a running mate in '08, right?
ReplyDeleteRemember back on 2006 when he was running against George Allen in Virginia and Allen brought up Webb's novels and their supposed "steamy sex scenes"? The republicans were certainly more innocent nine years ago. One of Webb's racy bits of fiction is nothing compared to Bristol Palin's foul mouth on any given day.
ReplyDeleteWebb was pretty much useless as a Democrat in office. I wouldn't want to see him in a Cabinet position either. And he's on his third wife, I think that's a little skeevy too.
He's very dull. See him speak on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteBad for climate change. He loves coal.
ReplyDeleteBernie is better - he says if the environment was a bank, it would have been bailed out by now.
See, this is why I love Bernie.
DeleteWell, this is who he will be up against:
ReplyDeletehttps://obamadiary.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/0b1a1-gop2bclown2bcar.jpg?w=1266&h=713
Nope.
ReplyDeleteAn amazing conversation with Valerie Jarrett on what has transpired in America over the last two weeks through the eyes of President Obama
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8uOIukzZok
Obama In LaCrosse, Wisconsin - Full Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUduQ5SxgI
Thanks for both links, especially Valerie's interview.
DeleteThere's no denying Donald Trump is a big wig - but researchers have photographed a caterpillar that bears an uncanny resemblance to the property mogul's hair.
ReplyDeleteWith its brightly coloured, carefully parted 'do' the bizarre looking caterpillar has been compared to the U.S property mogul's unique look.
The creature was spotted in the Amazon by friends Jeff Cremer, 34 and Phil Torres, 27, who run photography tours from Posada Amazonas, a 30 bed rainforest lodge in Peru.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2317145/Caterpillar-looks-just-like-property-mogul-Donald-Trump.html
Ole Jim boy will evolve on the Confederate Battle Flag. He has managed to bury some other very unpleasant personal opinions before. I'm delighted that he's decided people like me aren't poisoning our service academies.
ReplyDeleteJim Webb (Nov. 1979)
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/jim-webb-women-cant-fight/
There is a place for women in our military, but not in combat. And their presence at institutions dedicated to the preparation of men for combat command is poisoning that preparation. By attempting to sexually sterilize the Naval Academy environment in the name of equality, this country has sterilized the whole process of combat leadership training, and our military forces are doomed to suffer the consequences.
Nope. That is not the record producer who launched the 5th Dimension back in 1967, or wrote Glen Campbell hits.
ReplyDeletePublic Servant. Warrior. Author. Filmmaker.
ReplyDelete“Public servant”? Well, yes — he was a US Senator once, and before that, Webb served as the Asst. Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and the Secretary of the Navy. “Warrior”? A dated term, sure, but Webb graduated from the Naval Academy and served in the Marine Corps. during the Vietnam War. “Author”? Definitely, as the former senator has written and published several military-focused works of fiction and nonfiction.
But what about “film-maker”? Most of you were probably willing to grant the first three descriptors, but Hollywood? Maybe not, especially since Webb used the totally unnecessary hyphen in the term.
As Deadline reminds us, you’d be wrong, for Webb was — in fact — involved in the movie-making business for a time. His biggest credit comes with the 2000 film Rules of Engagement, which he developed with producer Scott Rudin. Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, the film was executive producer by Webb, who also received a story credit.
Webb served as executive producer for the 2003 documentary Prepared To Serve: The U.S. Naval Academy In The Vietnam Era, and his Whiskey River was recently optioned by Warner Bros.
So yeah. Webb actually is a “film-maker.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/meet-2016-democratic-candidate-and-hollywood-filmmaker-jim-webb/
http://deadline.com/2015/07/jim-webb-president-candidate-screenwriter-rules-of-engagement-1201467568/
Jim Webb was born on February 9, 1946 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA as Jr. James Henry Webb. He is a writer and producer, known for Rules of Engagement (2000), Hillbilly: The Real Story (2008) and Whiskey River. He has been married to Hong Le Webb since October 2006. They have one child. He was previously married to Jo Ann Krukar and Barbara Samorajczyk.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916136/
Who Is Jim Webb's Wife? Hong Le Webb Is Said To Be His "Closest Adviser"
Delete...Family-wise, Webb’s wife, Hong Le Webb, has played a somewhat public role in her husband’s political career, and has worked on his previous Senate campaigns. But what else do we know about her?
Webb was born in Vietnam, and she and her family left the country after the fall of Saigon in 1975, she told Daily Kos in 2006. She also told the website that she grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later attended college at the University of Michigan, and then received her law degree from Cornell. She was an accomplished securities and corporate lawyer in Washington D.C., and has also been active and vocal in her husband’s campaigns. All of this on top of being a parent, as well.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/94753-who-is-jim-webbs-wife-hong-le-webb-is-said-to-be-his-closest-adviser
Hong Le Webb: From Vung Tau to Virginia
Deletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/07/254711/-Hong-Le-Webb-From-Vung-Tau-to-Virginia
He strikes me as the one Democrat, conservative/republicans would vote for in the election.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad he's entering. I won't vote for Hillary in any circumstance. Jim Webb is entering because the party is doing everything it can to keep Bernie Sanders from winning. All his contributions come from unions, all Hillary's come from corporations. 'Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteHere's a graphic that shows the difference in amounts and donors for Hillary and Bernie. Suurrrre, she's not owned by corporations...
Deletehttp://aattp.org/contributions-clinton-sanders/
...The Republicans really mean it when they say they are committed to destroying Obamacare. They really do intend to pack the Supreme Court with far right fanatics who will help them do that. And they don't give a rat's ass what the polls say.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans really do intend to strangle Medicaid. They really do intend to privatize Social Security. They really do intend to destroy Medicare. And they don't give a rat's ass what the polls say.
The Republicans really do intend to reverse progress on gay rights. They really do intend to keep waging the drug war. They really do intend to wipe out all labor unions, cripple environmental standards, destroy worker safety protections, and strip the average person of the means to fight corporate power. They will ignore all evidence of global climate change as a "hoax". And they don't give a rat's ass what the polls say.
The Republicans really do intend to establish plutocracy at the top. They really do intend to impose a right-wing fundamentalist "Christian" theocracy on everyone else. They really do intend to curtail voting rights more and more brutally. They really do intend to coddle the neo-Confederates and placate the white supremacists. They really do intend to abolish the IRS and shift the tax burden down toward the poor and middle class. They really do intend to utterly destroy the safety net. And they don't give a rat's ass what the polls say.
And most ominously, the Republicans, driven by apocalyptic lunatics from the Religious Right, intend to have a war with Iran, and if necessary, one with Russia to help bring on the Apocalypse. You think I'm kidding or exaggerating? Look in Tom Cotton's eyes if you think I am.
You may say that the polls say the American people mostly stand with us on the great issues. But you know why the Republicans don't care about that?
POLLS DON'T VOTE. PEOPLE DO. AND THE RIGHT-WINGERS VOTE.
I just shake my head in disbelief when I read articles about how the Republican Party is "dying" or "on the way out" or doomed. I hate to break it to you but the fact is this: they're winning.
They control 69 out of 99 legislative chambers in this country. (Nebraska is unicameral.)
They have 3/5 of the governors.
They have a gerrymandered stranglehold on the House.
They run the Senate, however ineptly.
Why? Because those angry old white people VOTE.
Sam Brownback, a lunatic and fanatic, is destroying Kansas. HE WAS RE-ELECTED.
Scott Walker, a frightening sociopath who will lie about anything, is crippling Wisconsin. HE WAS RE-ELECTED.
Rick Scott is an outright criminal who should be in prison for several reasons. He is strangling Florida. HE WAS RE-ELECTED.
In 2010 and 2014, we were massacred. Humiliated. Crushed. We got our asses kicked. We got our clocks cleaned. Why? In part because the turnout was disgracefully low (only 36% in 2014, worst in 72 years). The Republicans run the states. ALEC is writing the laws. They are gutting us locally, where it counts. If we lose the presidency, this country is finished. The Republican radicals want to abolish the 17th Amendment and go back to legislatures choosing senators. Guess who that would give a PERMANENT Senate majority to? The Republicans want constitutional amendments outlawing gay rights and declaring America a "Christian" nation. Thirty-four states can call a constitutional convention. When the Right wins control of 38 states, they can push those amendments through, bypassing Congress. And again, they don't care what polls say. They get their way because they vote.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/02/1398733/-For-the-Sake-of-the-World-Bernie-Must-NOT-Be-Our-Nominee-Hear-Me-Out
A good reminder that The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good.
DeleteScrew Jim Webb. He thinks gay marriage should be up to the states. I would NOT vote for him.
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