Daily Press endorses Jim Webb!

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http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-61364sy0oct29,0,756457.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials

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For Jim Webb
At war and less secure, Virginians should vote for change
October 29, 2006

Today the Daily Press Editorial Board endorses former Navy Secretary Jim Webb for the U.S. Senate. It's time for a change. That's a familiar political cry, heard regularly each turn of the election cycle, but it arrives with compelling force and reason in 2006.

We're talking about political incompetence. It is that incompetence that Allen has sought to not only defend, but extend - though he has begun to change his tune. With the election drawing near, Allen put his arm around fellow Republican Sen. John Warner, a far more temperate and independent thinker on Iraq (and most subjects). Allen's blind "stay-the-course" rhetoric has been replaced with "mistakes have been made, and our progress has been far too slow."

That's what he told a Richmond audience recently and, in nearly the same breath, he also insisted that he wants the troops to "come home in victory, not in defeat." But what constitutes "victory" in the Allen worldview?

He doesn't say. Since the war began in 2003, Allen has yet to present a thoughtful statement on the complexities of what has become an increasingly intolerable predicament.

That alone argues for his political retirement.

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