| Senator Elect Jim Webb had the graciousness not to punch George Bush when George sought him out at a White House reception and asked, “How’s your boy?” When Senator Elect Webb responded, “I’d like to get them out of Iraq” the Decider said, “That’s not what I asked you. How’s your boy?” To which Maximus Webbius replied, “That’s between me and my boy.”
After 6 years or more of the right calling the left spineless, wishy washy and incapable of protecting their own let alone the nation, along comes Gary Cooper in “High Noon”. After 6 years of a reckless and feckless John Wayne impersonator, here come the Marines in the form of one Lone Ranger. |
Normally, I would be ranting about yet another testosterone- loaded event meant to elevate warriors and put down the peaceniks, but Jim Webb is different. He’s not a John Kerry reminiscing about Vietnam or a John McCain who seems to be a Peter Pan who won’t grow up. Webb didn’t run on the past, but on the future of our children. And he had the good sense to leave the Republican party over the disastrous decision to invade a country for no good reason. But why I am really enthralled with Jim Webb is that he is long past Vietnam and senses that the real American war is the war on the middle and working class. The Iraq war was meant as a distraction from the war that has been waged since 1980 on those who work for a living. The Iraq war has diverted much needed tax money from education and our infrastructure to war profiteers and arms dealers with blatant cronyism. In his op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on November 15th, he had the courage to say that we are drifting “towards a class based system” not seen since the Gilded Age of the 1890’s when the Robber Barons ruled. http://www.opinionjo...
If we don’t address this crisis right now, opportunities and advantages will be frozen in a class-based system, Webb warns.
Although Nazism was defeated in World War II, fascism (the merging of corporations and government) lingered on and became belligerent with the succession of Bush the younger and his scheme of endless war for profit. But it looks like economic populism is making a comeback. Much maligned in 2004 for his “class warfare” of Two Americas”, John Edwards should be listened to for the visionary that he is. No one wanted to touch poverty or prison populations or taxing wealth not work. So just in the nick of time, the knights arrive to show America what real old timey FDR Democrats can look like. Jim Webb will join the other Knights of the Round Table, Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders and the great progressive caucus in the House to outflank the neo cons and neo liberals.
But already the ruling elites’ media lackeys are getting their panties in a wad. Today George Will, the foppish prig at the Washington Post, came out with his pens a blazing that the “boor” Jim Webb has soiled the White House carpet like some junkyard dog in front of His Majesty, George the Second.
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George Will is a clown, pretentious and clueless. And now he has become strident and shrill. He said on "This Week" that Wal-Mart jobs must be terrific because there were so many applications for a new one in Chicago. E.J.Dionne's mouth dropped open at that one and replied, "Could it be, George, that those are the only jobs available?
His attack is classic "Orwell". Accuse your opponent of something you are. (Mark Crispin Miller's "Bush Dyslexicon" and Paul Waldman's "Fraud). Bush is the boor, the illiterate, the uncivil, and a big phoney. Jim Webb is classy, well-educated, articulate and direct.
Perhaps a more "civil" response when Bush asked "How's your boy?" might be:
"My boy is in Iraq, Sir Gaffsalot. Perhaps we would have something to talk about if your girls were there too. Excuse me, sir, but I have a duel at 2PM with Sir Dick.
And as your mother once said to Al Franken, “I’m done with you.”
Sir Gallawebb turns on his heel and strides purposefully out of camera range.
"Unleash Hell", Maximus Webbius and let the games begin. |
