jrb

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:19:52 -0800

Although I think Wes Clark would be more of an asset in ending the Iraq war, I think it's gonna have to be Hillz. Some big Hillary supporters I know are already talking about not bothering to vote now. Yea, cut off your nose to spite your face. Real smart. Real mature.

caliking01

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:39:35 -0800

Just bring Hillz on board already.

torrmoz

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:22:18 -0800

very nice and thorough article, well done. A few more reasons Webb won't/shouldn't be picked as VP: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/ixnay_on_the_ebbway.php ...Webb basically became a Democrat the day before yesterday, and he has a long history of holding some pretty wingnutty opinions and making some fairly outrageous and offensive statements. To quote a Rolling Stone profile of the man, just a few years ago he was saying that "Liberals were 'cultural Marxists,' and 'the upper crust of academia and the pampered salons of Hollywood' were a fifth column waging war on American traditions." In 2000, Webb opined that affirmative action was "state-sponsored racism"; that same year he endorsed the ultra-conservative Republican George Allen for the senate. In 2004, Webb wrote an op-ed for USA Today arguing that John Kerry "deserved condemnation" for his opposition to the Vietnam War (to be fair, in the op-ed Webb is also critical of George Bush; but then again, in the same piece Webb also takes a swipe at the "liberal media"). Troublingly, he gave [a] glowing endorsement to Mark Moyar's uber-wingnutty "revisionist" history of the Vietnam War, Triumph Forsaken, which was published in October 2006. In 1979, in an infamous article in The Washingtonian magazine called "Women Can't Fight," Webb argued that women were biologically unsuited to combat and didn't belong in the military academies. He said that the mere presence of women was "poisoning" the environment for male cadets. He also declared that no senior female in a leadership position at the academy won her rank by merit, thereby impugning the accomplishments of every female midshipman and throwing fuel on the smoldering resentments of a vocal minority of disgruntled midshipmen.

LAist: What's Next for Obama? The Veepstakes

jrb

caliking01

torrmoz