Jim Webb is a veteran. Period. I have his latest book, “I Heard My Country Calling” sitting here next to the computer. Unopened. His publicist sent it to me, uninvited a few months ago. I don’t like James Webb, veteran or not. <\/p>\n
That picture above is one that I took in 2007 soon after the birth of this blog. It was those Bethesda MoveOn doinks going to an anti-war protest soon after Webb snubbed President Bush in the White House – you know, why would you go to the White House and snub the president unless that was your intention from the beginning and you intended to make headlines by doing it. <\/p>\n
I don’t like President Obama much, but when I was in the White House, if he had made a gesture towards me, I wouldn’t have snubbed him – you know, out of respect for his office irrespective of his politics. You know, like we learned in the military, a lesson that escaped Senator Webb, apparently. But, on to The Hill’s article;<\/p>\n
Webb would be Hillary’s “worst nightmare.” Webb “takes on his party’s hawks.” Webb is the “anti-Hillary.” Webb can “beat Hillary.” And as the coyote pups begin their autumn chants here in the hills of chilly New Hampshire, Webb arrives tonight to give a little talk at St. Anselm College.<\/p>\n
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After the Civil War, Walt Whitman sensed that we had come to dreams of world conquest and passage even across the universe; to Sirius and Jupiter and beyond. It will be a better time, Whitman promised, for then “the true Son of God shall come, singing his songs” and that is the promise of the millennium rising.<\/p>\n
Why Webb? Because for every thing there is a season and our seasons today demand a leader with a stout heart. That could be warrior scholar Jim Webb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t know, there’s something about those veterans who become Democrats. You can name a bunch, I’m sure, who are reviled by the veteran community. Sure there are exceptions, but generally, they don’t look to help veterans as much as they seem to use their service towards a political end. It’s not because they’re not in my “club” (I’m a registered independent who is conservative) it’s because the party that they joined wants to screw veterans to the wall. Just look at the ways that they’re doing their best towards that end today, because veterans are a relatively small demographic compared to the others that Democrats claim to serve. We’re easier to screw in comparison, politically.<\/p>\n
I just don’t see how a veteran can join that crowd knowing that they care more about politics than they care about veterans and the issues that are important to veterans. It has nothing to do with their membership in my club and it has everything to do with the club that they joined.<\/p>\n
For the record, I have voted for Democrats in the recent past, but none of them were veterans.<\/p>\n
If Webb runs for president, I’ll probably read his book, but I still won’t vote for a veteran who is a Democrat, because those two things don’t go together, generally speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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