BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume

Subject: BS: Rep. Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Cruiser
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:12 AM

This is a Democrat I could easily support for the President of the U.S.A.

Rep. Jim Webb's Bio

Subject: RE: BS: Rep. Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Cruiser
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:16 AM

That should be Senator Jim Webb.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:28 AM

I'm impressed with him. Did you by any chance listen to his speech after the State of the Union Address tonite?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:29 AM

I as impressed by his delivery, but I can't find a few issues on his website which I would like to know his take on, including women's rights. I had no idea he had authored several best-seller novels as well as screenplays, etc. He's definitely got one thing going for him. According to his wife, Hong, he has no problem getting down to a nine-year old's level of fun, doing the "The Banks of the Hanky-Panky", "Hokey-Pokey", and "Cha Cha Slide" on request! Goodonhim!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:41 AM

Women's rights? I thought they had'm.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,amused
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 01:46 AM

Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel "Lost Soldiers," in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy's penis in his mouth.

Webb said the release of the excerpts was "a Karl Rove campaign tactic" and a "classic example of the way this campaign has worked. It's smear after smear."

He defended his fiction as "illuminative."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200610/POL20061027c.html

you folks can sure pick 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 08:14 AM

Sounds like you are using the Karl Rove tactic of deception Amused.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: TIA
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM

Why don't you tell us about Scooter Libby's book Amused?

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Cruiser
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 11:26 AM

The following is an excerpt from the CBS article. His writings as a novelist probably should not be equated with his personal views. What he wrote about on this issue and others actually happens in life and in this case it is a custom, albeit weird, of another culture. To condemn a writer from writing about an apparently factual custom or act is similar to condemning a reporter for reporting such acts or customs. To report or write about what others do does not mean the writer or reporter approves or practices what is written or reported. I would guess that writers and reporters of the Iraq war deaths and atrocities are not warmongers themselves nor would they likely commit war crimes themselves.

I would likely not care to read Senator Webb's novels, mostly because I prefer a different style of writing and rarely read novels.

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"It's not a sexual act," Webb told Plotkin regarding the "Lost Soldiers" excerpt. "I actually saw this happen in a slum in Bangkok when I was there as a journalist."

"The duty of a writer is to illuminate the surroundings," he added.

Coincidentally, a Cambodian woman in Las Vegas is facing sexual assault charges for performing a similar act on her young son, according to an Oct. 14 report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The article quotes an office manager for the Cambodian Association of America, who described the act as a sign of respect or love.

"It's an exception," Thira Srey told the Review-Journal of the practice. According to the report, the act is usually performed by a mother or caretaker on a child who is one year old or younger. In Webb's novel, the child is four years old." {End Quote}

I did see his speech and before that, I knew nothing about the man. His public and military service and education impressed me. He has the credentials to be a leader, but it may be too early to determine conclusively if he has the character. To me, the last two presidents lacked the character qualities I prefer in a leader and Senator Webb would appear to be far above those people in that category.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,maire-aine
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 04:12 PM

I read his non-fiction book "Born Fighting" and found it very interesting.

M

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 04:29 PM

Hell of a writer. I've loved just about everything from Witchita Lineman to The Girl's Song.

...too bad about that MacArthur's Park thing, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,p
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 04:38 PM

he also has a son in Iraq, how many of the chickenhawks can say the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 05:33 PM

Since when does writing graphic fiction disqualify someone from running for office?

STOOPID-FUUUUUUUCK!

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 06:14 PM

Find a man of quality and slander him anyway possible -- same old dumb-ass Rovian limbic approach to politics.

Some folks will do ANYthing to make others look as bad as they themselves feel.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: GUEST,amused
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 08:29 PM

That's right about the songs. He should've stuck to that. Excellent songwriter. Or no, that's another Webb. This is the pervert Webb I'm talking about. Made a buck hacking out obscene material then tried to call himself a "journalist." I am actually impressed that a pervert of this caliber got elected. It shows the extent to which Americans will go to delude themselves. Mark Foley, Barney Frank, George Bush...yeah, we really need another sexual deviate in the govt.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 09:20 PM

Whoa up, Snide One. A man sees this event happen in a distant land. Later he includes it in a book. For this, you would brand him as a pervert? Dear God, I'll tell you what's perverted. Unilateral invasions causing the death of thousands. Ya want perversion, well, I guess we got plenty of that around. On what grounds to you sling such a judgmental label around?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Cruiser
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 10:50 PM

Mr. Webb is one of the most versatile people whose bio I have ever seen. If most people accomplished just one of his many accomplishments then they would be considered very successful. Read his biography again.

Subject: RE: BS: Senator Jim Webb: An Impressive Resume
From: Cruiser
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:51 AM

Another perspective on Webb's Democratic Response Speech:

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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. {End Quote}

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