I've got an article coming on James Webb on Wednesday, so I don't want to cannibalize my commentary here. Suffice to say, a big frownie face to Kathy G. who wrote up the comprehensive political case against choosing him as vice president a few days before, rather than a few days after, my article came out.But to expand slightly on a point she makes, James Webb has been a Democrat for about 30 minutes. A decade or so ago, his gender politics were, to say the least, retrograde, and his outlook was still shot through with anger at the dirty fucking hippies who had turned on his comrades in the military. I have more respect for that position coming from a veteran like Webb than I do from a chickenhawk like Cheney, but it still speaks of certain tensions he's got with portions of the party. Additionally, Webb has also endorsed some of the Vietnam, stab-in-the-back revisionism that's come out over the past few years, opposed Clinton for being too soft China during the 1990s, and In 2000, endorsed George Allen for the Senate. JAMES WEBB AND THE KNOWN UNKNOWNS.
I've got an article coming on James Webb on Wednesday, so I don't want to cannibalize my commentary here. Suffice to say, a big frownie face to Kathy G. who wrote up the comprehensive political case against choosing him as vice president a few days before, rather than a few days after, my article came out.But to expand slightly on a point she makes, James Webb has been a Democrat for about 30 minutes. A decade or so ago, his gender politics were, to say the least, retrograde, and his outlook was still shot through with anger at the dirty fucking hippies who had turned on his comrades in the military. I have more respect for that position coming from a veteran like Webb than I do from a chickenhawk like Cheney, but it still speaks of certain tensions he's got with portions of the party. Additionally, Webb has also endorsed some of the Vietnam, stab-in-the-back revisionism that's come out over the past few years, opposed Clinton for being too soft China during the 1990s, and In 2000, endorsed George Allen for the Senate. 
