From a WSJ blog.

It's an interesting read. Quite a collection of quotes, including:

Asked at one point if he might want to meet Jane Fonda, Sen. Webb said, “I wouldn’t go across the street to watch her slit her wrist.”

John Kerry, he wrote, “deserves condemnation” for leading Vietnam Veterans Against the War because he “portrayed their fellow veterans as unwilling soldiers, morally debased and haunted by their service.’’

after Bill Clinton left office amidst a scandal over his pardoning unscrupulous financiers, Sen. Webb wrote, “It is a pleasurable experience to watch Bill Clinton finally being judged, even by his own party, for the ethical fraudulence that has characterized is entire political career.”

“And I have never met a woman, including the dozens of female midshipmen I encountered during my recent semester as a professor at the Naval Academy, whom I would trust to provide those men with combat leadership.”

“Connerly’s views on race relations are decades ahead of the Jacobins who have foisted the affirmative-action regime on this country. … Affirmative action, which originally sought to repair the state-induced damage to blacks from slavery and its aftermath, has within one generation brought about a permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand.”

Now, thanks to affirmative action in college admissions and hiring, “the less successful white cultures have fallen further behind as a veneer of minorities have joined the elites.”


The conclusion of the post:

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Sen. Webb is not a safe pick. His views on women in the military could cost Sen. Obama among Clinton voters-–a potentially fatal flaw in the idea of choosing Webb–and some Hispanics might worry about his views on affirmative action. But an Obama-Webb ticket has the potential to bring home those who left the party for Ronald Reagan and George Wallace, bridging the gap between African Americans and working class whites.

It's a risky pick. Some gains, perhaps among men, but right now you're absolutely trouncing McCain among women. Webb isn't exactly seen as "female friendly."

This doesn't even have his comments about Tailhook.

If Obama picks Webb, I WILL VOTE FOR HIM.

Didn't you just say on another thread that you would definitely vote for McCain?

I changed my mind.

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Originally posted by DieHardBrownsFan:
If Obama picks Webb, I WILL VOTE FOR HIM.

Did we just agree on something? I may just have a f-ing heart attack.

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I changed my mind.

I got interupted while I was typing this. What I was going to say was I changed my mind if Webb would be selected and accept the nomination as VP.

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Did we just agree on something? I may just have a f-ing heart attack.

I guess we did.

I think an Obama/Webb ticket would draw alot of so called "Reagan Democrats". It would also draw alot of veterans, especially Vietnam veterans. I have the utmost respect for Senator McCain, but Webb would be the deciding factor in me voting for Obama.

The thing that really endears me to Webb is that he SEEMS to go with what he really believes in and not along any party lines.

Does anyone really believe that affirmative action is "state-sponsored racism as odious as Jim Crow," as Webb believes?

I think it's safe to say that government-mandated segregation of the races was a bit more odious than giving preferential treatment to a historically disadvantaged minority group in, say, college admissions. That's a pretty stupid statement.

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Sp which of the leading VP candidates would make you not vote for him?

Any VP but Webb, and I'm voting for McCain.