Jim Webb’s Foot-in-Mouth Disease (Volume Two, Exhibit Six)

After staying neutral in his party’s presidential nomination battle for months (and thus increasing his standing relatively because he didn’t have to say anything), Jim Webb is stumping for Barack Obama – and the inevitable ensues.

Here’s Jim on the brouhaha between Wesley Clark and John McCain (The Hill via Riley at VV):

. . . John McCain’s my long-time friend, if that is one area that I would ask him to calm down on, it`s that, don’t be standing up and uttering your political views and implying that all the people in the military support them . . .

Funny, last I checked, only one public official had the sand to declare that he knew the views of the military – and that would be the fellow who said this:

The majority of our nation no longer supports the way this war is being fought; nor does the majority of our military.

His name?  Jim Webb.

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5 Responses to “Jim Webb’s Foot-in-Mouth Disease (Volume Two, Exhibit Six)”

  1. Riley Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 9:10 am | Reply

    Jim Webb has the memory span of a goldfish.

  2. Jim Webb Dispels Any Doubt That Attacks On McCain Aren’t Coordinated « Virginia Virtucon Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 9:14 am | Reply

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  3. bill f Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 4:14 pm | Reply

    Moron. Webb said THE MAJORITY of the military doesn’t like the war. Not only has he visited troops in Iraq, but his SON is there. If anyone knows how those troops feel, its Webb. Anyway, a majority is simply 50.0000000001 percent — silly goose. FAR from saying the ENTIRE military believes what he believes. This is just another attempt to choose just the right words to make people think there was a contradiction. At least Webb pays his property taxes and doesn’t have fund raisers who support Colombian terrorists! You guys have lost; start planning Jindal’s loss to Obama in 2012 and pray someone comes around to compete against Hillary in 2016. Fat chance.

  4. rightwingliberal Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 6:53 pm | Reply

    You can always count on the left to raise the level of deabte.

  5. Timothy Watson Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 10:53 pm | Reply

    And isn’t one of John McCain’s sons an enlisted United States Marine?

    And isn’t another of McCain’s sons attending the United States Naval Academy?

    And wasn’t another of McCain’s sons a former United States Naval pilot and currently a pilot for Continental Airlines?

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/mccainsons.asp

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