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Jim Webb Offers the Democratic Response to Hillary and Obama

By Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. Posted January 24, 2007.


Last night, Webb offered a populist, anti-corporate stand on economics and a blunt attack on Bush for "recklessly" dragging our country into war, while Hillary and Obama barely uttered a peep.

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If you watched freshman Virginia Sen. Jim Webb deliver the Democratic response to Bush's State of the Union speech, you witnessed something historic -- a Democrat on national TV unabashedly ripping into six years of Bush rule for an uninterrupted 10 minutes.

With no O'Reilly or Hannity to disrupt or out-shout him.

Webb offered a populist, anti-corporate stand on economics and a blunt attack on Bush for "recklessly" dragging our country into the Iraq war -- a sharply-worded address that must have startled millions of TV viewers accustomed to Democrat vacillation.

It was the kind of stirring appeal, both progressive and patriotic, that could win over voters at election time -- including swing voters, NASCAR dads, soccer moms, even Republican leaners. The new Senator -- a novelist and former Secretary of the Navy -- reportedly discarded the speech handed him by Democratic leaders, and wrote his own.

But Webb's speech was not just a rebuttal to Bush. It was also a pointed response to the tepid pablum that comes out of the mouths of mainstream media-anointed Democratic presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

TV viewers could easily see the contrast between Webb's words and those of Clinton and Obama, since the two candidates were featured one after another on TV network after network soon after Bush and Webb. Yet they said so little.

Clinton and Obama were the only two Democrats so heavily spotlighted last night -- which is how corporate media shape and bias the Democratic race while pretending to just be covering it. John Edwards appeared on a couple shows last night, and was more forceful.

Dennis Kucinich was invisible, though Webb seemed to be channeling Kucinich on economics.

In case you missed it, here's a bit of what Webb said:

When one looks at the health of our economy, it's almost as if we are living in two different countries. Some say that things have never been better. The stock market is at an all-time high, and so are corporate profits. But these benefits are not being fairly shared. When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it's nearly 400 times. In other words, it takes the average worker more than a year to make the money that his or her boss makes in one day.

Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world. Medical costs have skyrocketed. College tuition rates are off the charts ...

In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy: that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street. We must recapture that spirit today.

And Webb, a Marine in Vietnam, offered a blistering attack on the Iraq adventure:

The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command ... and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable -- and predicted -- disarray that has followed.

Webb called for reversing direction in Iraq: "an immediate shift toward strong regionally-based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq's cities, and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq."

Webb ended his speech with references to two Republican presidents. He praised Dwight Eisenhower for recognizing the Korean War as a "bloody stalemate" and quickly bringing that war to an end.

And Webb invoked Teddy Roosevelt for standing up to "improper corporate influence" at the beginning of the 20th century:

America was then, as now, drifting apart along class lines. The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth. The dispossessed workers at the bottom were threatening revolt.

Whether intended or not, Webb was offering a way for Democrats to win elections -- a script for any presidential candidate who wants to distinguish him or herself in the primaries, and then defeat the Republicans in Nov. 2008.

And if taken from the realm of mere rhetoric to actual policy, a means to reform our country in a way that would give Democrats majority support for years to come.

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Jeff Cohen is a media critic, recovering TV pundit and author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media." He consults for Progressive Democrats of America.

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If Clinton and Obama had borrowed Webb's tone, you'd have called them "copycats" at best and "tag-a-
Posted by: Sojourner on Jan 24, 2007 1:24 PM   
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longs" at worst.

I loved Webb's speech. I find the journalistic habit of finding everywhere and at all times a reason for combat (in this case between Webb and the other Demos) nothing more than stirring up drama for self-aggrandizement. It also reminds me of Fox News.

Must every piece of journalism be an aspiration to expose? We can do without it.

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There's a good reason for this...
Posted by: MonkeyBoy on Jan 24, 2007 1:37 PM   
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Both Hillary and Obama are globalists, cut from the same cloth as Dubya. Once you realize that, it'll all make sense.

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» RE: There's a good reason for this... Posted by: unlawflcombatnt
Webb had a nice speech, but...
Posted by: thoughtcriminal on Jan 24, 2007 2:43 PM   
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Isn't it just that the Democratic Party chooses one person to respond to the Presidential State of the Union - but Webb's speech sure beat last years 'talking with the grade schoolers' approach - "There's a better way"... some actual issues were coming up.

Nevertheless, the bottom line should be:

-Hearings on the criminal abuses of the Bush Adminstration, particularly the cooking up of false intelligence to justify the Iraq war (Cheney's fingerprints are on that);

-A congressional investigation into the FBI's handling of the Fall 2001 anthrax attacks and the subsequent multibillion-dollar giveaway to Big Pharma under Project Bioshield. (Rumsfeld's fingerprints are all over that);

-Cutting off subsidies for oil corporations and industrial agribusiness and switching them to renewables and sustainable agriculture practices;

-Ending the obssession with unfair trade pacts (which Clinton did champion, but which Edwards doesn't - not sure about Obama);

-Making sure that the troops are indeed pulled out of Iraq, and that the control of oil contracts is handed back to the Iraqi people instead of to foreign oil corporations, and cutting back the Pentagon's $600 billion budget.

-Making sure the US voting system is overhauled, from voter registration to electronic voting machines, so there is no replay of 2000, 2002 and 2004 in 2008;

Cosmetic symbolic actions that cater to the same international corporate powers that backed - that's a mistake; Democrats have to decide whose side they are on - Cayman-Swiss elitists or the US population. The Democrats promised to hold hearings on all these issues if elected to the majority - so what's up?

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» RE: Webb had a nice speech, but... Posted by: Lincoln fan
Clinton Dynasty love war as much as the Bush Dynasty.
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Jan 24, 2007 3:27 PM   
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remember we are talking about a person educated through the elite inspired Rhodes scholarship program created by Cecil Rhodes to indoctrinate American youth into the Anglophile ways of colonialism and empire.

-remember Billary voted for the war?

-remember Bill bombing an aspirin factory and sending cruise missiles into Afghanistan?

-remember Bill bombing the Serbs who were defending Europe, again, from Islamic radical attack?

-remember the now the elder Bush and Clinton are 'best friends' and even shared a room together during some junket into Asia?

-remember that there is an agreement between the two ruling dynastys to share the Presidency?

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» No one died? Posted by: albrechtkrausse
That is what Webb, a Freshman, is supposed to do
Posted by: pitty on Jan 24, 2007 3:50 PM   
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It is call team work. The ultimate goal is for Dems to get the whitehouse and more seats in 08.

He's less than a month old. STFU! Talk when he's put in 6 years...He's doing his job!

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oobi
Posted by: oobi on Jan 24, 2007 5:10 PM   
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a politician with a pair of colberts. refreshing.

i was beginning to believe that comics were the only men left who spoke truth to power.

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Webb's great and all but today, he disappointed a lot of Webb fans
Posted by: maxpayne on Jan 24, 2007 5:36 PM   
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when he voted down Dodd's anti-escalation bill. Well, if Webb loses his son, he can thank himself for defecting. Gawd, I hope Webb does become a Republican.

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hows that feel allen
Posted by: okie11 on Jan 24, 2007 5:39 PM   
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great job sen webb, what are you doing in 2012.

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Webb ok, Kucinich better
Posted by: spanky on Jan 24, 2007 5:49 PM   
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I appreciate Webb's comments on class warfare and his general tone, but I have to take issue with his comments on Iraq:
"The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command ... and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable -- and predicted -- disarray that has followed."

The implication here is that Bush simply went about the war in the wrong way and did not heed the advice of the experts. This is a far cry from saying simply that the invasion and occupation were illegal, immoral and unnecessary.

Kucinich has it right (as reported on Democracy Now):
In the House, Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to put forward his own plan calling for the end of the U.S. occupation, the closing of U.S. military bases and the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops. As part of the plan, Kucinich calls for cutting off new funds for the war and using existing funds to bring the troops home. Kucinich also wants the return of all U.S. private contractors in Iraq.

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» RE: Webb ok, Kucinich better Posted by: nigredo
» RE: Webb ok, Kucinich better Posted by: schnoggi
» Webb - poor choice Posted by: Conservasaurus
» RE: Webb - poor choice Posted by: laoma
Growing Economic Inequality
Posted by: Aufklaerung_Baboon on Jan 24, 2007 8:25 PM   
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I was glad that Webb mentioned the growing economic inequality in America; I'm sure that his statements on the subject resonated with many people, particularly when he referred to the 'robber barons.' This is the same thing that happening today, only it's always been happening (it never stopped happening...), shows no sign of abating, and is indeed accelerating at a dizzying speed.

I saw an interview with a person from Goldman Sachs the other day; she said that someone at Goldman Sachs recently estimated that the 200 richest people in the world control as much wealth as the bottom 2.7 billion people. WOWOW I was stunned by that statement; in fact, it made me want to puke.

Of course here in the USA we have the top 10 richest Jews in the USA (who comprise about 40-50% of the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America despite Jews only being 3% of the overall U.S. population -- Forbes 400) that control more wealth than both the African-American and Hispanic-American communities COMBINED. So, yes, in this great bastion of freedom and equality we have 10 little people that control more wealth than the 80 million strong African-American and Hispanic-American communities.

Sure thing buddy; we're all 'equals' here in the U.S.

(see also PARTIAL list of Jewish American businesspeople)

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» RE: What is your point? Posted by: Urstrly
» RE: What is your point? Posted by: laoma
» RE: What is your point? Posted by: jmp3954
Senator Webb Speaks From the Heart; State of the Union Rebuttal
Posted by: Betsy L. Angert on Jan 24, 2007 9:33 PM   
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Dear Jeff Cohen . . .

I greatly appreciate your assessment of the Democratic Rebuttal to the State of the Union speech. Senator Jim Webb was wondrous, though admittedly, I did want more.

Listening to the rebuttal was an experience that far exceeded the earlier event, the State of the Union speech delivered by George W. Bush.

I was grateful for the history lessons, Senator Webb provided. The personal and political were interesting to me. I learned to love an observation that was novel to me. The Andrew Jackson adage is one I will adopt.

"In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy - that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that, exist on Main Street. We must recapture that spirit today."

I invite you to view the video of the speech, read the transcript, and review my own reflections. I welcome any comments you may pose.
Senator Webb Speaks From the Heart; State of the Union Rebuttal

Betsy L. Angert
BeThink.org

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Hmmmm...
Posted by: kepstein7777 on Jan 25, 2007 1:43 AM   
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Democrats who talk and say something at the same time?

Sounds a bit suspicious to me.

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Webb –> Ersatz Boy Scout @ DC
Posted by: Hal on Jan 25, 2007 4:38 AM   
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I doubt even a toilet like Washington could hide behind a faux “leftwing” McCaine. At least not for long.

Alright, let’s skip the fact Webb didn’t mention a clear and present 911 cover-up that betrays every ideal the nation ever stood for. What about the cover-ups end product?

A “war on terror” floated on no more than killing lies for fascist oligarchs is not about “disregarded warnings” and “disarray” . These are just new lies for old and blatant ones at that. Webb said nothing that hasn’t been better confronted by Ron Paul or Kucinich. He’s just smoother out of a sham Boy Scout front.

Webb is pure limited hangout and anyone with half a clue knows it. For him to quote Andrew Jackson is bad theatre and a travesty.

Andrew Jackson had issues but he didn’t just speak on freedom from monopoly oligarch tyranny. Even old political snake FDR knew Jackson walked his talk. All the way.

"THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, AS YOU AND I KNOW, THAT A FINANCIAL ELEMENT IN THE LARGER CENTERS HAS OWNED THE GOVERNMENT EVER SINCE THE DAYS OF ANDREW JACKSON.”
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (on oligarch rule in a letter to handler “Colonel” Edward M. House, confidence man for the cartel and founder of the Council on Foreign Relations. House also handled President Wilson in the foisting of a private and unconstitutional “Federal Reserve” Corporation and its IRS in 1913. FDR speaks of monopolists at cartel centers of New York & London that own the U.S. Government. November 21st, l933)

“YOU ARE A DEN OF VIPERS AND THIEVES. I INTEND TO ROUT YOU OUT, AND BY THE ETERNAL GOD, I WILL ROUT YOU OUT.”
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON (the 7th President publicly pledging to defeat international monopolist bankers to their face in his speech. Jackson vanquished a global cartel in its plans for a privately owned “U.S.” central bank. A public murder attempt on Andrew Jackson failed shortly thereafter by a double misfire of the assassin’s pistols. Quote1832)

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Could it be true?
Posted by: packofwolves on Jan 25, 2007 6:57 AM   
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Could Jim Webb be a real person who happens to be a politician with a real interest in this country and it's citizens? Could it be that his interest in the well being of his country's citizens is greater than his need for power and wealth? I'd vote for him just because he had the courage to criticize Bush and his cronies. IMPEACH BUSH.

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Barack? "Billery"? Beware. . .
Posted by: monkeywrench on Jan 25, 2007 7:57 AM   
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We don't need any more human windsocks who twist with the prevailing breeze, not to best serve their constituents, but to fake their way to employment security. We don't need any more so-called "leaders" who stick their index finger up to test the wind, and then, after they're elected, stick their middle finger up to the rest of us. We don't need any more bloviating actors who spend more time polishing their public personas than polishing up on their constituents' needs.

In short, we don't need any more politicians. We need statesmen. And women.

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"Democrat" is not an adjective!
Posted by: room34 on Jan 25, 2007 9:39 AM   
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I haven't gotten through the entire article yet, but I was jarred enough by the Wingnutese use of "Democrat" as an adjective that I had to stop right there and comment.

It's old news by now that the Right is using this non-word tactically to demoralize the Left. But it's truly a shame when the Left accepts these vocabulary alterations as its own.

The adjective is "Democratic", if you please! (And even if you don't!)

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Webb Speaks for the Majority
Posted by: David V on Jan 25, 2007 9:39 AM   
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My apologies to the far left and far right of this nation, but that resounding "THWACK!" you heard was the sound of Senator Webb hitting the nail right on the head.

Senator Webb gets it: Most Americans don't want to live in a Right Wing Christian Theocracy or a Left Wing Socialist Nanny State. They want peace, justice and opportunity. They want our nation to lead by example, not by force and coercion.

And most importantly, they want America to be a nation of We the PEOPLE, not We the Corporations.

Excellent speech Senator Webb.

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Most important question to 08 candidates, "Where do you stand on EMPIRE"
Posted by: amacd on Jan 25, 2007 10:36 AM   
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The very most important question that the American people should be asking (and looking for) in any candidate for president in '08 is not, "where do you stand on the war?", but, "Where do you stand on the EMPIRE that has taken over our country --- an Empire of which the war in Iraq is only the biggest and most visible crime????"

On that score, Webb hit a homerun!

He ripped the guileful lying guts out of the current Emperor Bush, who had been forced on us in 2000, and excoriated him about the imperial oil-war in Iraq. And Webb ALSO smashed global corporate Emperor Bush and Vice Emperor Cheney in the face on the issue of the economic screwing of average 'working class' Americans ---- by squarely identifying them as the same type of murderous crooks as 19th century 'robber barons' like Jay Gould who infamously said, "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half" ---- clearly a threat that Bush and Cheney are expanding to global proportions in Iraq and soon the whole Middle East (and the world, if we don't stop these imperial mass-murderers).

Yes, Webb knows the truth of Hannah Arendt's, ""Empire abroad entails tyranny at home".

Yes, Webb knows the truth of George Akerlof, Nobel laureate in economics, who said of the Bush administration's policies, “What we have here is a form of looting.”

Yes, Webb knows the truth --- Webb talks the truth ----- and more importantly, Webb walks the truth ----- and he has the guts to confront this disguised and lying global corporate elite Empire that has already taken over our government with smirking bastards like Bush and Cheney!!!

Webb's truthful threats to the global corporate elite Empire, after Bush's SOTE (State of the Empire) speech was so powerful and so dangerous to this disguised Empire that today's Wall Street Journal (the Empire's Paper of Record) singled out Webb and tried to paint him as a raging Lenin attacking the Czarist Empire in Russia c. 1917.

Webb made these global corporate elite Empire bastards shake to their very boots --- attacking them on both the empire's war in Iraq and the empire's economic screwing of average Americans.

Two weeks ago on FOX News Sunday (where else?), Vice Emperor Cheney unleashed the ultimate fear campaign about what awful things will happen if we withdraw from the oil-war in Iraq, by stating, with deadly gravitas, "This is an existential conflict".

But the truth is that the 'existential threat' is not to the American people.

The "existential threat" that Cheney reveals as driving the fear that really motivates the Bush/Cheney Empire toward the abyss of nuclear war in the Middle East is the "existential threat" to their own global corporate elite Empire of oily Ponzi schemes, and economic looting both foreign and domestic!!

That's why Webb's televised address of truth to the American people and confrontation toward the global corporate elite Empire is so dangerous and caught that empire so off guard.

If leaders like Webb, who both know the truth about this disguised global corporate elite Empire that is running the war in Iraq and economcially screwing the people of the US, and who have the GUTS to speak that truth to the power of the Empire, are recognized by the American people and supported in their efforts to confront that Empire (instead of the weak, co-opted, corporate financed turn-coats that have been in Congress), then the empire is going to face some very rough sledding. In fact, they may as well enjoy their last profits on the sale of the rope that we are going to use to hang them!!!

Viva Webb. Viva Kucinich. Viva Sanders. Viva the Second American Revolution against EMPIRE

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Good. Now what?
Posted by: opeluboy on Jan 25, 2007 2:32 PM   
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Sure, Webb's rebuttal was a huge improvement over previous years, though he, like all Dems, is still dancing around the core issues, ones that none of them dare address.

But it was a good first step.

As for it having anything to do with Clinton or Obama, it doesn't. Neither care, or need worry, about Webb's slight foray into reality. The media will cover for them, pushing them every chance they get, especially Clinton since they've already anointed her.

Kucinich will get the usual short shrift they reserve for loonies. Any real antiwar candidates will also be marginalized.

This race was over before it started.

Pray for a viable 3rd party.

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Don't Accept Substitutes
Posted by: Jersey Devil on Jan 25, 2007 5:58 PM   
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Why worry about Hillary or Obama? Each for their own failings will not reside at 1600 in 2009. Virginia Sen. Jim Webb showed more moral courage and straight thinking than either of those two. We had better start working on Sen. Jim Webb to run for President, because he stood up while the others were busy mealy mouthing their bland stump speeches. Senator Webb has the intelligence, experience, and the balls to overcome the 6 year CLUSTERF@*K know as the Bush Administration.

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Webb response
Posted by: job4999 on Jan 27, 2007 9:31 AM   
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Sen. Jim Webb, who managed to give the rebuttal to President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night without challenging the president to a fistfight (well done, Jim!), won his election last November by portraying himself as one of the new gun-totin' Democrats.

He once opposed women in the military by calling the idea "a horny woman's dream." But -- as some of us warned you -- it appears that Webb has already been fitted for his tutu by Rahm Emanuel.

Webb began his rebuttal by complaining that we don't have national health care and aren't spending enough on "education" (teachers unions). In other words, he talked about national issues that only are national issues because of this country's rash experiment with women's suffrage. I guess we should all be relieved that at least Webb's response did not involve putting a young boy's penis into a man's mouth, as characters in his novels are wont to do.

He then palavered on about the vast military experience of his entire family in order to better denounce the war in Iraq. As long as Democrats keep insisting that only warriors can discuss war, how about telling the chick to butt out?

Ann Coulter, "I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore."

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