SubscribeWebb To McCain: Calm Down About Service
This was the first campaign ad Mr. Webb ran in his campaign for Senate two short years ago:
"Gipper"
This ad introduces Virginians to Jim’s exceptional record of service to our country, a record of service our opponent, George Allen, simply cannot match. What we’ve learned over and over again in this campaign is that when voters learn about Jim Webb, they’re ready to support Jim. They realize Jim is the "soldier, scholar, leader" we need to get our country back on track. And Jim is a leader Virginians can be proud of.
But that was then and this is now.
From The Hill:
Webb: McCain Should ‘Calm Down’ on Using Military Service
by Walter Alarkon
July 1, 2008
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) waded into the debate over John McCain’s military service Monday to say that the Republican should avoid using military service in politics.
Webb, a Barack Obama supporter, was on MSNBC’s "Countdown" to talk about his G.I. Bill to increase education benefits for returning veterans which is now law. Webb criticized both McCain and President Bush for not supporting the bill. Then, unprompted, Webb weighed in on the debate over retired Gen. Wesley Clark’s remark that "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" isn’t "a qualification to be president."
"I think what we really need to work on over the next four, five months, and it goes back to the speech that Sen. Obama gave [Tuesday] and this little fight that I’ve been watching and that is, we need to make sure that we take politics out of service," Webb said. "People don’t serve their country for political issues."
He continued: "And 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 because they don’t, any more than when the Democrats have political issues during the Vietnam War. Let’s get the politics out of the military, take care of our military people, or have our political arguments in other areas."
We are no McCain fans, but:
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 because they don’t…
When has he ever done this?
No, what Mr. Webb is saying is "shut up about your military service." It’s not important.
But what else did Mr. Webb ever run on, besides his vaunted military service — and ‘Macaca’?
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July 1st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
It could be me, but the only mention of military service from McCain is his “I dont like war” campaign speech during the primaries…..but the left and especially obama supporters are screaming like little girls about his war record, and endlessly to boot!
How can they demand that McCain shut up about it, or it isnt important, yadda yadda, if they keep bringing it up sixty times a day? Clark is an opportunist looking for a nice fat cabinet position, and he has been reading his obama teleprompter like a trained dog.
This isnt an issue for anyone other than the obama supporters who are trying desperately to make McCains stellar sacrifice trivial so obama’s total lack of experience in any capacity whatsoever will be diminished.
McCain didnt just get out of Hanoi last week….he has had over thirty years experience in Washington versus obama’s 36 MONTHS. So yeah, the democrat strategy of screaming foul about the opponent’s strong points is obvious.
Too bad their candidate is a nefarious weasle. But he will fit right in with the rest of the crowd who slithers to the democrat calling.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Huggy Bear’s veteran stooges — the few he can trot out — are trying to marginalize McCain military experience.
Clearly this is an orchestrated attack from David Axelrod.
The audacity of the Democrats to say that he ought not to politicize military service. Wasn’t it Clinton who tried to advance a pro-homosexual agenda with the the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy? And wasn’t it the Dems who in 2006 ran on an Iraq surrender platform to appease the kooks at Code Pink and MoveOn.org?
How ironic that Iraq seems to be going well these days, but Afghanistan is heating up — wonder how long it’ll take the Dems to turn tail on Afghanistan after professing there support there, but not Iraq, in 2006?
These clowns despise the military and the good people who voluntarily join up — Iraq is just an excuse to go after Bush. Why do they care is some cracker from a small town down south is placed in harm’s way? After all, every poll I’ve seen, and every election since 2000, shows that the military overwhelmingly backs the GOP. No, Jim Webb, not all the military support John McCain, but about 80% do. Murtha, McPeak, Webb, and Clark will tear down the military with great alacrity if it will advance their political careers.
They’re carrying water for a guy who doesn’t know the difference between a Marine and an Army General; who thinks we’re “air raiding cities in Iraq”; who would bomb a sovereign country and ally (Pakistan), but talk to terrorists, etc. Where is the honor?
July 1st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
It IS true that simply riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down are not qualifications to be President… but neither is Obama’s experience do… uhhh his experience in… well perhaps someday when Obama actually HAS a record of something we can say that Obama’s experience doing it is not a qualification to be President. What IS a qualification to be President is that he DID serve his country, in my opinion.
“People don’t serve their country for political issues” There probably are some. There are also some who felt they had no options so they served. There are a LOT … who serve their country because they realize how great this country is.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Not to mention the fact that Weaselly Clark was a laughing stock in the military. Got sent home from Bosnia for some reason that no one would talk about, tried to get the British to fire the first shots of WW3.
This is the man they’ve chosen to criticize McCain?
July 1st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
1) If I remember correctly, the left had someone running for President in 2004 who did exactly that. Which is exactly what the Swift Boat Veterans pointed out, much to the honorable Senator’s chagrin.
2) If political office is a form of service - which is exactly what it should be - then McCain has doubly served for over 40 years. Which is more than can be said of his opponent - who has less experience in the Senate than some of the congressional pages the Democrats seem to be so fond of.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html
Say’s it all right there.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
What we have here is a pattern of the Democrats and the MSM running out and making up news that has not happened. All of it course to leave false impressions in the air.
Webb tells McCain to calm down and the press runs with it, but McCain has not been yelling or complaining or going overboard at all.
Obama and his crew cry about the overt racism coming out from the Republicans, but nobody from the McCain camp has done anything remotely racist. Charles Johnson has and possible Hillary supporters, but nothing from the right.
Obama and his crew are all set to defend against this big smear campaign from the McCain camp, but there is no such thing happening.
Yet, today at work I hear Obama supporters crying that McCain is all bent out of shape about what is a “fair” discussion of his war record and that he shouldn’t be complaining about that, not after the vicious “whitey” rumor he has tried to attack Mrs. Obama with. Naturally you cannot debate with these people, because anything that is told on CNN or CBS news is the gospel. Even when I could get a word in edge wise and prove what was being reported was wrong, the response I get back was….”you know, there is more than one opinion out there.”
Of course when I asked since when did personal opinions count as “news”, all I got back was silence.
Incidently, I would like to see somebody ask Clark what he thought about the North Vietnamese proclaming John Kerry a war hero to their side and the honor they gave him in their war museum. After all Clark thinks Kerry is the cat’s meow when it comes to service to his country. So what does Clark think about Kerry’s distinguished service to North Vietnam?
July 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
And Clark used Webb’s military service when he endorsed Webb for the Senate…
http://tinyurl.com/5n5jrj
July 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
On the MSN homepage right now they have an article called:
Military service: A diminished campaign asset?
They wish, only because Obama has no service to speak of, military or not. I don’t like John McAmnesty. Not at all. But it is clear that the Obama people see this big, giant gaping hole in their hearts that they want to overcome by obsessing over something that isn’t really an issue. McAmnesty has led a colorful (sometimes quite painful!) life that is a good story to tell. And Obama can’t stand it. Instead of saying “thanks, man” once, they have to make it a non-issue because they know their candidate stands before an open closet with a bunch of empty suits inside, and if Barry wasn’t moving he would blend right in.
Also, notice the Bush cocaine jokes are now at a total standstill.
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.” - Barry Obama
“Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he says. - Barry Obama
He was high throughout his formative education years in high school and college. Do we hear *any* jokes about it? None. Not one. But Bush… it was non-stop, all the time ridicule. Well, here. Here are some past jokes about Bush, and instead I have put Barak in it.
Kind of an embarrassing moment for Obama on the campaign trail today. … I guess he was doing an interview with ABC’s Cokie Roberts, and someone yelled “Hey, Cokie,” and they both turned around. - Jay Leno
Hillary Clinton has dropped out of the presidential race, which means, I guess, the only candidate in the race still powdering his nose is Barack Hussein Obama.
The personal physician of Barack Hussein Obama told reporters today that the Illinois Senatorshows no sign of having ever used illegal drugs. The physician went on to say that the governor shows no sign of ever having bribed him with a kilo of 100% pure Peruvian flake and a handful of roofies for his diagnosis.
Q: How many telemarketers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Wouldn’t a more relevant question be “How many pounds of cocaine has Obama snorted?”
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
“And Jim is a leader Virginians can be proud of.”
Yes, the state of Virginia most be really proud of this embarrassment.
http://curbsideview.blogspot.c.....proud.html
curbside view: “Virginia, you most be so proud?”
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
There are military leaders and there are military politicians. Weasly Clark was a military politician. The only leadership skills he ever brought to an organization was the rank he wore on his collar, and although as a soldier you gotta respect that, you don’t have to respect the man. The only military folks I know who respected Weasly Clark were the political guys… the “it’s not what ya know but WHO ya know that’s important” crowd.