Jim Webb, (D-VA), should be our next President.

[JoeB131]

More of the usual class warfare bullshit, with the usual class warfare response, more taxes, more government control, less freedom, all done, of course, for the sake of "the people"

How come you guys only scream "Class Warfare" when working folks fight back.

I didn't start the class war, but I aim to finish it.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Jim Webb is a United States Marine. He fought in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His war wounds left him with shrapnel in his knee, kidney, and head. The injury to his knee led to a medical board that decided on medical retirement.

Jim Webb served as Secretary to the Navy under Ronald Reagan. He resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

Jim won an Emmy in 1983 for coverage of our soldiers in Beirut. Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the America Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans Foreign Affairs of War Media Service Award, the Marin Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

In his 2006 Senate Campaign Webb blisteringly opposed George W. Bush's blunders in Iraq. He opposed the war before it began and shouted it down towards an election victory. Webb had a son who served in Iraq also.

So outside of his pointless record on serving does he have any other positions than not liking Bush going into Iraq? Like, how does he feel about Obama and Dems going back into Iraq after Bush had to end the war for Obama?

How about illegal immigration, or welfare, debt, deficits.... You know, something of substance.

I never get sick of seeing a RWnut trash a veteran when the marching orders require it.

 

[martybegan]

More of the usual class warfare bullshit, with the usual class warfare response, more taxes, more government control, less freedom, all done, of course, for the sake of "the people"

How come you guys only scream "Class Warfare" when working folks fight back.

I didn't start the class war, but I aim to finish it.

Yes, from your couch. The armchair commando is in full effect.

 

[JoeB131]

More of the usual class warfare bullshit, with the usual class warfare response, more taxes, more government control, less freedom, all done, of course, for the sake of "the people"

How come you guys only scream "Class Warfare" when working folks fight back.

I didn't start the class war, but I aim to finish it.

Yes, from your couch. The armchair commando is in full effect.

No, the way the "Founding Fathers" said to acheive change- through advocating in the public square.

Certainly better than the right wing gun nuts like yourself clinging to your guns and your bibles bitterly

 

[Wildman]

Well....he'd be a fuck of a lot better than Hildabeast.

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maybe so, but we have had enough fucking demoscum fucking up this country of patriots, that muslime son-of-a-bitch in the WH now has done more harm than Bubba Cliton did when he allowed terrorists to destroy the WTC !!

 

[Wildman]

We need a leader, not a idiot.

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that is why we need Scott Walker !!

 

[Wildman]

clinging to your guns and your bibles bitterly

>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<

is there any better way to live and get to heaven ?

 

[deltex1]

Jim Webb is a United States Marine. He fought in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His war wounds left him with shrapnel in his knee, kidney, and head. The injury to his knee led to a medical board that decided on medical retirement.

Jim Webb served as Secretary to the Navy under Ronald Reagan. He resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

Jim won an Emmy in 1983 for coverage of our soldiers in Beirut. Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the America Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans Foreign Affairs of War Media Service Award, the Marin Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

In his 2006 Senate Campaign Webb blisteringly opposed George W. Bush's blunders in Iraq. He opposed the war before it began and shouted it down towards an election victory. Webb had a son who served in Iraq also.

Jim Webb 'gets it'. Here is an excellent op-ed he authored that appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 2006...

Past Featured Article
ELECTION 2006


Class Struggle

American workers have a chance to be heard.

by JIM WEBB

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:01 A.M. EST

The most important--and unfortunately the least debated--issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America's top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars. They own most of our stocks, making the stock market an unreliable indicator of the economic health of working people. The top 1% now takes in an astounding 16% of national income, up from 8% in 1980. The tax codes protect them, just as they protect corporate America, through a vast system of loopholes.

Incestuous corporate boards regularly approve compensation packages for chief executives and others that are out of logic's range. As this newspaper has reported, the average CEO of a sizeable corporation makes more than $10 million a year, while the minimum wage for workers amounts to about $10,000 a year, and has not been raised in nearly a decade. When I graduated from college in the 1960s, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, that CEO makes 400 times as much.

In the age of globalization and outsourcing, and with a vast underground labor pool from illegal immigration, the average American worker is seeing a different life and a troubling future. Trickle-down economics didn't happen. Despite the vaunted all-time highs of the stock market, wages and salaries are at all-time lows as a percentage of the national wealth. At the same time, medical costs have risen 73% in the last six years alone. Half of that increase comes from wage-earners' pockets rather than from insurance, and 47 million Americans have no medical insurance at all.

Manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Many earned pension programs have collapsed in the wake of corporate "reorganization." And workers' ability to negotiate their futures has been eviscerated by the twin threats of modern corporate America: If they complain too loudly, their jobs might either be outsourced overseas or given to illegal immigrants.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009246

WSJ link has expired...new link:
Jim Webb Class Struggle

Obabble fixed all that...what is there left to do?

 

[JoeB131]

clinging to your guns and your bibles bitterly

>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<

is there any better way to live and get to heaven ?

Yeah, there is no heaven, and if there were, that's not how the BIble says to get there.

The bible says you should give all your worldly goods to the poor.

 

[Mac1958]

.

I like Webb, and I like him even more after learning he said this:

From a Yahoo! piece:

Go to any activist meeting or liberal dinner party, and chances are you will hear a pretty consistent narrative to explain this trend. Basically, it goes like this: White men, and especially Southern white men, are just inherently racist and afraid of social change, and so they’re easily manipulated by Republicans and have turned their backs on Obama. But that’s really OK, because the demographics of the country are rapidly shifting, and very soon there will be enough black and Latino voters — not to mention women of all races — to tip the balance of any national election into the Democratic column.

Webb finds this theory downright offensive. In his view, Democrats have focused so much of their rhetoric and their programs on racial minorities that they’ve basically forgotten about all those white, working-class voters who face some of the same economic hardships but feel like all the focus is on the poor.

“I think this is where Democrats screw up, you know?” Webb told me. “I think that they have kind of unwittingly used this group, white working males, as a whipping post for a lot of their policies. And then when they react, they say they’re being racist.”

Back in 2010, under a Wall Street Journal headline that referred to the “myth of white privilege,” Webb called for an end to federal affirmative action programs that aren’t need-based, saying they no longer helped African-Americans and only served to embitter white voters. More recently, including in our conversation, he has obliquely assailed “interest groups” that divide the parties by race.

He's not fond of the PC Police either.



.

 

[quorthon]

We need a leader, not a idiot.

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that is why we need Scott Walker !!

no thanks

 

[jknowgood]

Hillary will be your next nominee, and Bush or Walker will be the next president. Obama has made sure of that.

 

[kaz]

Jim Webb is a United States Marine. He fought in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His war wounds left him with shrapnel in his knee, kidney, and head. The injury to his knee led to a medical board that decided on medical retirement.

Jim Webb served as Secretary to the Navy under Ronald Reagan. He resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

Jim won an Emmy in 1983 for coverage of our soldiers in Beirut. Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the America Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans Foreign Affairs of War Media Service Award, the Marin Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

In his 2006 Senate Campaign Webb blisteringly opposed George W. Bush's blunders in Iraq. He opposed the war before it began and shouted it down towards an election victory. Webb had a son who served in Iraq also.

Why is it for Democrats only having a military record counts if they have one and military record only counts for Democrats?

 

[Bfgrn]

Jim Webb is a United States Marine. He fought in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His war wounds left him with shrapnel in his knee, kidney, and head. The injury to his knee led to a medical board that decided on medical retirement.

Jim Webb served as Secretary to the Navy under Ronald Reagan. He resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

Jim won an Emmy in 1983 for coverage of our soldiers in Beirut. Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the America Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans Foreign Affairs of War Media Service Award, the Marin Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

In his 2006 Senate Campaign Webb blisteringly opposed George W. Bush's blunders in Iraq. He opposed the war before it began and shouted it down towards an election victory. Webb had a son who served in Iraq also.

Jim Webb 'gets it'. Here is an excellent op-ed he authored that appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 2006...

Past Featured Article
ELECTION 2006


Class Struggle

American workers have a chance to be heard.

by JIM WEBB

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:01 A.M. EST

The most important--and unfortunately the least debated--issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America's top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars. They own most of our stocks, making the stock market an unreliable indicator of the economic health of working people. The top 1% now takes in an astounding 16% of national income, up from 8% in 1980. The tax codes protect them, just as they protect corporate America, through a vast system of loopholes.

Incestuous corporate boards regularly approve compensation packages for chief executives and others that are out of logic's range. As this newspaper has reported, the average CEO of a sizeable corporation makes more than $10 million a year, while the minimum wage for workers amounts to about $10,000 a year, and has not been raised in nearly a decade. When I graduated from college in the 1960s, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, that CEO makes 400 times as much.

In the age of globalization and outsourcing, and with a vast underground labor pool from illegal immigration, the average American worker is seeing a different life and a troubling future. Trickle-down economics didn't happen. Despite the vaunted all-time highs of the stock market, wages and salaries are at all-time lows as a percentage of the national wealth. At the same time, medical costs have risen 73% in the last six years alone. Half of that increase comes from wage-earners' pockets rather than from insurance, and 47 million Americans have no medical insurance at all.

Manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Many earned pension programs have collapsed in the wake of corporate "reorganization." And workers' ability to negotiate their futures has been eviscerated by the twin threats of modern corporate America: If they complain too loudly, their jobs might either be outsourced overseas or given to illegal immigrants.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009246

WSJ link has expired...new link:
Jim Webb Class Struggle

More of the usual class warfare bullshit, with the usual class warfare response, more taxes, more government control, less freedom, all done, of course, for the sake of "the people"

More of the usual mimics from the parrot class in America...

martybegan and friends

Snarky picture responses: When the poster doesn't have the intellect to post their own stuff.

I have more intellect in the tip of my tiny finger than you have in your whole body.

What don't you comprehend about the fact in the 1960s, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, that CEO makes 400 times as much?

Do you need more pictures?

 

[JoeB131]

Hillary will be your next nominee, and Bush or Walker will be the next president. Obama has made sure of that.

I really don't think the country is dumb enough to put a third Bush into office given what complete disasters the first two were and the second had to STEAL the election to get in.

 

[JoeB131]

Why is it for Democrats only having a military record counts if they have one and military record only counts for Democrats?

Mostly because Republicans don't have particularly good military records.

Let's review, shall we.

Romney- Got a bullshit missionary exemption.
Limbaugh- Got an exemption for cyst on his ass.
Cheney- Four student Deferments and a marriage deferment.
Bush- National Guard Dodge
Quayle - National Guard dodge

 

[jknowgood]

Hillary will be your next nominee, and Bush or Walker will be the next president. Obama has made sure of that.

I really don't think the country is dumb enough to put a third Bush into office given what complete disasters the first two were and the second had to STEAL the election to get in.

You elected Obama twice. Can't be more dumb than that.

 

[Bfgrn]

.

I like Webb, and I like him even more after learning he said this:

From a Yahoo! piece:

Go to any activist meeting or liberal dinner party, and chances are you will hear a pretty consistent narrative to explain this trend. Basically, it goes like this: White men, and especially Southern white men, are just inherently racist and afraid of social change, and so they’re easily manipulated by Republicans and have turned their backs on Obama. But that’s really OK, because the demographics of the country are rapidly shifting, and very soon there will be enough black and Latino voters — not to mention women of all races — to tip the balance of any national election into the Democratic column.

Webb finds this theory downright offensive. In his view, Democrats have focused so much of their rhetoric and their programs on racial minorities that they’ve basically forgotten about all those white, working-class voters who face some of the same economic hardships but feel like all the focus is on the poor.

“I think this is where Democrats screw up, you know?” Webb told me. “I think that they have kind of unwittingly used this group, white working males, as a whipping post for a lot of their policies. And then when they react, they say they’re being racist.”

Back in 2010, under a Wall Street Journal headline that referred to the “myth of white privilege,” Webb called for an end to federal affirmative action programs that aren’t need-based, saying they no longer helped African-Americans and only served to embitter white voters. More recently, including in our conversation, he has obliquely assailed “interest groups” that divide the parties by race.

He's not fond of the PC Police either.



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The one trick pony chirps...

The central element of all PC charges, is "the myth of the conservative victim." In a remarkable turnabout of historical narrative, conservatives managed to portray themselves as "victims of false charges of racism and sexism, victims of the repressive thought police, and victims of reverse discrimination"

The widespread public acceptance of the political correctness myth has become a powerful political tool for conservatives. It provides a way to dismiss and mock rather than refute claims based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, or minority culture. Further, the attack on PC has been expanded to serve in the larger ideological war against the left, so that any statement of radical belief triggers the PC charge.

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Conservative correctness - RationalWiki

 

[Political Junky]

Dude is a race mixer who likes them VERY YOUNG...his latest wife is 22 years YOUNGER than him..no thanks.

Scott Walker's wife is 11 years older than he is.

 

[SAYIT]

Jim Webb is a United States Marine. He fought in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His war wounds left him with shrapnel in his knee, kidney, and head. The injury to his knee led to a medical board that decided on medical retirement.

Jim Webb served as Secretary to the Navy under Ronald Reagan. He resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

Jim won an Emmy in 1983 for coverage of our soldiers in Beirut. Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the America Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans Foreign Affairs of War Media Service Award, the Marin Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

In his 2006 Senate Campaign Webb blisteringly opposed George W. Bush's blunders in Iraq. He opposed the war before it began and shouted it down towards an election victory. Webb had a son who served in Iraq also.

He has shrapnel in his head, has had a non-descript Senate career and will be over 70 when next we inaugurate. No thanks.