What kind of democrat will WEBB be?

[Herman Munster]

How conservative or liberal is he?

[Ken Burch]

1. I think that depends on who does the best job of presenting their case to him

And who can do the best job of helping him defend whatever votes he makes in the next election.

The man wouldn't BE a Democrat, though, if he hadn't become repelled by a great deal of what the Republican Party has come to stand for.

[sharp_stick]

2. I think he will be

on the conservative side but it will be a welcome change from the nutjob style of conservative that Allen would have been.

[MadMaddie]

3. He has a son in Iraq.....

I am curious also about his other stances...but he has to be better than that bully Allen..

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. A better one than Allen

:bounce:

[BlackVelvet04]

5. Socially I think he is pretty liberal. Fiscally conservative and that's

a good thing.

He's already talking about increasing the minimum wage.

[phillysuse]

6. Webb will be a Populist

Webb will support economic and social justice, the inclusion of the excluded
and the greater distribution of America's wealth and jobs to those stranded at the bottom of the society.
The terms conservative and liberal no longer have any meaning.

[Zambero]

7. Webb knows good military strategy from bad

He realized Iraq was a disaster in the making from day one, and he was not content to stand on the sidelines and witness a huge disaster getting worse by the day. It's esseantial to have watchdogs like him in Congress. He'll provide informed oversight on military matters in the Senate in much that same way that Murtha has and will continue to provide in the House.

[Tinksrival]

8. Did you read this:

http://www.webbforsenate.com/biography/

Very impressive!
snip>>>>>>>>>

While at Georgetown he began a six-year pro bono representation of a Marine who had been convicted of war crimes in Vietnam (finally clearing the man's name in 1978, three years after his suicide).
snip>>>>>>>>>>

He taught literature at the Naval Academy as their first visiting writer, has traveled worldwide as a journalist, and his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut earned him an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Jim has traveled extensively, particularly in Asia, as a journalist, business consultant and screenwriter-producer. He speaks Vietnamese and has done extensive pro bono work with the Vietnamese community dating from the late l970's. In 1989 he met with key Japanese government and industrial officials as a featured guest of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. He has worked on feature film projects with many of Hollywood's top producers. His original story “Rules of Engagement”, which he also executive-produced, was released in April 2000 and starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. It was the number one film in the US for two weeks. His fifth novel The Emperor's General was purchased by Paramount pictures as the largest book-to-film deal of 1998. His book Born Fighting, which is his first commercial non-fiction effort, was published in October 2004 by Broadway Books.

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James Webb in Vietnam In government, Jim served in the U.S. Congress as counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from l977 to l98l, becoming the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full committee counsel in the Congress. In 1982 he first proposed, then led the fight for, including an African American soldier in the memorial statue that now graces the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the National Mall. In 1984 he was appointed the inaugural Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, where he traveled extensively in, and worked closely with, our NATO allies. As the Assistant Secretary he directed considerable research and analysis of the U.S. military's mobilization capabilities. In 1987 he became the first Naval Academy graduate in history to serve in the military and later be appointed Secretary of the Navy. He resigned as Naval Secretary in 1988 after refusing to agree to a reduction of the Navy's force structure during congressionally-mandated budget cutting.

This is a man with integrity and heart==Liberal

[williesgirl]

9. I believe he'll vote based on the issue, not a liberal or conservative stance. That's why I voted

for him twice, primary and election. He's intelligent, something we in VA are definitely NOT accustomed to in our elected officials, most of whom are repukes.

[Tinksrival]

10. Meet Jim's wife Hong

Another inspirational story:

http://www.webbforsenate.com/biography/hong_le.php




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I left Vietnam immediately after the fall of Saigon in April 1975, along with my paternal grandmother, my parents, my only brother and three of my five sisters. We left my home town of Vung Tau in the middle of the night on a fishing boat. My other two sisters, who were married before I was born, left on different boats with their families around the same time. All of my immediate family are in the U.S. (surviving my parents are seven children, 31 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren). I still have distant relatives in Vietnam today, with whom my older siblings keep in touch.

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My family parallels Jim's family educationally. My father had a 5th grade education, and my mother never learned how to write and barely knew how to read. Despite not having the same opportunities in education, my parents always stressed the importance of education to all their children. My siblings and I are first-generation immigrants to the U.S., and given our age ranges, have varying degrees of education. I grew up in New Orleans, got my undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and my law degree from Cornell University. I am a corporate securities lawyer in the Washington office of a Michigan-based law firm.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Webb's wife might come to have quite a political career herself

A graduate of Cornell Law is impressive. She obviously has brains and then some. And she's physically quite beautiful. If the U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam, she may come to play an important role, with her background in corporate law. I believe she said she met her husband when both of them were discussing doing business with Vietnam.

[DefenseLawyer]

11. The kind that got elected in Virginia

Despite the best effort of our friends the Greens to get Allen re-elected.