WEBB: "Wanted To Slug Commander-In-Chief" Over Bush's Rude Statement About His Son

[kpete]

Son also rises in testy Webb-Bush exchange
By Emily Heil

...........................

At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.

Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.

“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.

Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. It’s safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won’t be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon.

“Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner,” said Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd. “Basically, he asked about Jim’s son, Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.” Todd did not want to escalate matters by commenting on Bush’s response, saying, “It was a private conversation.”


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[JuniperLea]

1. Not even the most rudimentary social skills

That idiot is lacking on every level, isn't he?

[indepat]

21. Rudeimentary social skills?

[JuniperLea]

28. Hahahahah!!!! Touche!!!

I love a good word play! Well done!

[BlueEyedSon]

36. A Sociopath. And a Rude one at that!

[mcg]

71. and he talks rudeimentally. nt

[Botany]

74. Egg zack lee ON EVERY LEVEL HE IS LACKING OF SOCIAL SKILLS.

If you don't want an answer don't ask a question.

"How is your son?"

"Well he wants to come home."

"I don't care."

As his girls party it up in South America and cause the Govt. of Argentina to ask
our embassy to ask the girls to get the hell out of the country. Meanwhile Webb's
son is risking his ass in a lost cause looking for WMDs that never were there.

[LibDemAlways]

80. Speaking of those girls, someone posted on

another thread that Webb's comeback to chimp's "How is your son?" should have been "Why don't your daughters enlist so they could go to Iraq and report back to you how he is."

[SpiralHawk]

2. All you get from an AWOL wimp pretending to be "commander"

is bullshit and attitude.

[TwentyFive]

61. Maybe Webb can ask 41 how HIS son is doing - after the impeachment & war crimes trial?

That will be be good day indeed.

[speedoo]

3. So the AWOL-Coward-in-Chief doesn't care about the troops coming home.

No surprise.

[rfranklin]

4. He is the Commander, the Decider, the Jefe of the Junta....

you do not challenger him with contradictory or difficult questions or statements. Got it?

[John Gauger]

5. "I wish my son was home."

"Well, fuck you then." I really hate that man. He is an embarrassment to us all.

[sniffa]

6. sLug him with the boots

[bahrbearian]

99. Yeah, LOL

[donco6]

7. He's his mother's son all right.

Just what Babs would have said.

[blm]

10. heh - you know your Bushes - that was my first thought.

.

[Hippo_Tron]

34. No, Babs would've said

"How is your son doing in Iraq... oh wait I don't give a shit, haha."

[LiberalEsto]

77. Why should I bother my beautiful mind...

about wars and body bags and torture, etc. when I can think about how my grandkids are running around hotels naked?

[jgraz]

115. "Was he underprivileged to begin with? Then he's doing quite well!"

[wicket]

39. aka Ma Barker

:D

[Tony Soprano]

8. Kick his ass, Webb!

n/t

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. Whip his ass Webb !

What a bastid .

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Do you realize that man would be a hero if he had slugged him?

Give him a pretzel shiner.

[Tony Soprano]

13. He would have been MY hero!

n/t

[ecstatic]

35. Perhaps riddled with bullets as well

Not worth it to die or even do prison time over Shrub... IMO

[Tony Soprano]

53. Regrettably

you are probably correct. As for myself, I'd like an old fashioned "duel" between Shrub and Sodomy Insane. Like Burr and Hamilton or whoever the hell it was dueled.

[demigoddess]

98. Exactly, shrubby probably has the guts to talk like that only because he

has the secret service to make sure he does not have to face any real consequences. He learned to josh and kid around with people who could strike back (lots of repressed anger there) and now he can take it out on people with the secret service to back him up, if anyone so much as calls him a bad name.
I think the word is lily-livered coward.

[badgerpup]

12. Oooooh...did that big bad Senator hit you on a sensitive spot, George?

Just a mite testy, wouldn't you say?
Wonder why Bush being told by a father that he'd like his son to come home from Iraq would trigger such a HOSTILE response?:sarcasm:
:rofl:

[Qutzupalotl]

14. “I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing.”

"I don't KNOW how he's doing, because I haven't seen him in MONTHS. Some idiot sent him to look for WMDs."

[JudyM]

47. That would've been a great comeback. *As if* the chimp even cared, anyway. n/t

[TankLV]

86. ...some WAR CRIMINAL sent him...

much better - imparts some TRUTH to the statement...

[maggiegault]

118. I Could Tell AWOL How The Troops Are Doing

I spoke with my brother via IM this morning for about an hour.

How is HE doing, AWOL?

Let me tell you.

My brother is in the lowest mood I have ever seen him in, and that includes when our Dad died a couple of years ago.

My brother is exhausted. Physically, of course; war takes it out of the joints and bones, even if you aren't wounded, but AWOL wouldn't understand that concept. Mentally, though, he is just worn out.

His sense of humor (I originally typed "Human," Freudian slip?) is greatly diminished. This is the guy who is easily one of the funniest people I have ever known.

My brother is worried...about the war, about his children, about his wife, about money, about his safety.

My brother does not think that AWOL cares about the troops.

My brother does not think that AWOL cares about anything but himself and his own delusions.

My brother referred to his situation as "being in the middle of a civil war," going on to tell me that that is accepted Army parlance these days.

[annabanana]

122. Welcome to DU, maggiegault

Oh my dear! Please know that our prayers and best wishes are with you and your brother for his safe return.
A lot of our members are families of the deployed and recently returned. (And there's a veteran's forum here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=259 if you're interested.

If we keep the pressure on the newly empowered Democrats, maybe we can help get your brother home sooner.

[LuckyLib]

127. Your brother no doubt speaks for the majority of soldiers over

there who realize they have been sold a bill of goods, and no longer have faith in their leadership at home. May he stay strong, think good thoughts, and with any luck he and fellow soldiers will be home soon.

[democrank]

15. Bush is an empty POS.

He`s clueless about sacrifice, clueless about patriotism, clueless about principles.

[bluewithinblue]

132. This much is certain:

Bush didn't know Webb's sons name...Webb should have asked der monkey if he knew his boy's name.

[EST]

16. Have you noticed that the more pissed off and willing

demonstrate that we are damned angry at the wanton destruction of all the things we find important, the less the warm stream talks about "angry democrats?"

I, personally, would like to see them talk about angry democrats so we could tell everybody why we're so pissed.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. The work of a truly ignorant man ........

Only an ignorant piece of shit like our Little Boots cold even THINK to ask such a question of a man who, himself, wore real boots and the boots of his son.

Fuck you, George Bush, you fucking COWARRRRRRRRD.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Draft dodger Chimp trying to talk tough with decorated combat veteran Marine?

:rofl:

Yeah, g'luck with that, Bushie.

[driver8]

19. Once again, Pissy Pants needs to prove that he's the boss.

What a fucking douchebag.

I absolutely hate that asshole.

[Name removed]

20. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Shakespeare]

22. Breathtaking arrogance. Bush cannot tolerate anybody who differs with him.

What a little fucking dictator. "I didn't ask you that." Yeah, well I didn't ask to have an illegal war begun in my name and using up my tax dollars, so just shut the fuck up.

[JudyM]

48. ...and he's got to especially despise Webb, for flipping control of the Senate. n/t

Oh, boo hoo, Georgie.

[Lisa]

23. "Fine ... no thanks to YOU!"

I suppose Bush thought he was being cunning, by trying to divert Senator-to-be Webb with family talk. He sure gets irritable at the first sign that things aren't going his way! I can only imagine the sorts of things he said to Al Gore back in 2000 (Gore had to remind him, "There's no need to get snippy").

[Rex]

24. Crybaby cry.

Hang your head and sigh.

[JuniperLea]

29. We need a good picture of...

Scut Farcus... yellow eyes! I swear he had yellow eyes!

[Imagevision]

25. Bush pure scum and stupidity,

[Junkdrawer]

26. Ah yes, the ole "Cindy Sheehan" subtext...

"You're dishonoring the heroism of your child" :mad:

[Imagevision]

27. No-one asked Bush if saddam was a bad guy, where the fuck were the wmd's?!!

[Arugula Latte]

30. Sometimes I can't post what I think when it comes to Bush.

Use your imagination, though.

[Straight Shooter]

31. bush thinks he's a lawyer now, conducting cross examination?

Whatta jerk. Webb reveals something personal about his son, and bush doesn't have the decency to follow up with any sort of sympathetic response.

Oh. Wait a minute. Sympathy requires the ability to understand another person's feelings. Nevermind.

[Olney Blue]

32. The blivet doesn't even realize that he created even more determination

in Senator Webb to end his illegal war.

Remember that anger Jim- we need you to have it for us on the Hill.

[ecstatic]

33. Bush is a F$@%# A$$HOLE!!

If he had any sincerity AT ALL about this war, he would have responded to Webb with a little more compassion. A *sincere Bush* might have even tried to sell Webb on why he felt the war was necessary and what he hoped to accomplish in Iraq. This story needs to go national, ASAP. FAITH MY ASS!!

[malaise]

40. You're too kind.

He's a fugging war criminal - the master of genocide.

[maggiegault]

120. I Agree...Let's Spread This Story Around

And honor Webb's son and all of our other troops in the process.

I'm posting it over on my little blog and will contact a couple of others, like Hoffmania!

Doesn't AWOL's "retort" sound like something a junior high punk would sneer at his father when his curfew was revoked?

The climate in this country is ever changing. The bad guys controlled the national mood and the public discourse for so long. It's time to let AWOL and his gang of thugs and the fools who are fool enough to enable them to hang themselves with a noose created from their own stupidity, lies, and hatred.

On the heels of the Peace Symbol Wreath Triumph, we need to get this story out. Now.

[scarface2004]

37. he ll come home in a body bag!

if i have anything to do with it! bush sneered.

[stevedeshazer]

38. Well, there's another vote for impeachment!

:)

[tinfoil tiaras]

41. Asswipe

Imagining * saying that just made me sick to my stomach...:puke:

[Beetwasher]

42. Holy Crap

Every time I think this idiot can't outdo himself...

[MasonJar]

43. I notice that the commander-in-chief has no intention of putting

his bode into the country. It's easy to put other people there; any "real" man would be over there every Thanksgiving or bring the troops home.

[vard28]

44. This story is going to top our 11:00 news...

... in Northern Virginia. I can't wait for everyone to see it on tv too!

:popcorn:

[FredScuttle]

45. Beyond outrageous

Webb has the class and restraint not to say his son is probably a lot far worse off than *'s two whore daughters traipsing around Buenos Aires, ditching their Secret Service patrol and flashing their cootchies around town. What a disgrace.

[TankLV]

87. ...the "Paris Hiltons" of Presidential offspring...

Dumb, useless, arrogant...

[FighttheFuture]

116. Unlike Paris, Bushie is also kinda ugly, in a simian way....

[Canuckistanian]

46. Isn't that disrespectful to the troops?

Forcing them to die in a losing battle to accomplish the impossible for the benefit of the despicable?

[demo_not_full]

49. Anyone agree ...

That GW is married to a Stepford Wife??

[LonelyLRLiberal]

111. Maybe they had her lobotomized, so she could stand being married to him.

Or - maybe she is just stupid.

[FighttheFuture]

117. Sociopaths of a feather... Pickles ran over and killed her ex boyfriend when she was a teen!

[Octafish]

50. Hmm. US Marine Officer vs. The Smirk. Who wins?

LMAO.

[Stardust]

55. I swear,* has on eye makeup and blush! Watta moran.

:puke:

[smomfr]

96. He either has a lot of balls saying that to an ex marine or he´s

really really stupid. You be the judge. For my part if someone were to ask him ¨how they hangin´ pres´? an honest answer would have to be---they haven´t decended yet´.

[mnhtnbb]

51. Why do people keep expecting Bush to be anything other than the a$$hole he is?

[bookman]

63. Honestly...

...I think they just expect more from the President of the United States.

This one? Perhaps not.

[Diane R]

52. Something tells me only an idiot messes with Webb. Come to think of it.... n/t

[Clarkie1]

54. I'd want to punch the S.O.B., too. Webb is going to be a great senator! nt

[LonelyLRLiberal]

113. I agree. You don't insult someone's kid, especially one who is in constant danger

as a result of your own insane delusions.

[stillrockin]

56. What a jerk.

n/t

[Wetzelbill]

57. that would have been the greatest thing ever

Anybody would want to smack somebody for being so callous like that. Bush does not know much, nor does he care much, if at all.

[thickerstrings]

58. And we thought he couldn't ooze any more slime ....

National disgrace, international joke, fucking asshole.

[newyawker99]

94. Hi thickerstrings!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Wetzelbill]

100. agreed!

Welcome to DU! :)

[Limelight]

59. That sumbitch...

Doesn't realize how close he is to getting his punk ass impeached, does he? He's living on the good graces of the congress and shit like that will wear it thin. QUICK.

What a prick. If I was Webb I'dve been like "You didn't ask, but I damn sure told you now didn't I? Jackass." Despite with the Emperor with no sense probably thinks it ain't like he could have had him arrested for properly summerizing his character. Although, thinking about it... The Donkey is out symbol so for get Jackass...

Jerk off.

Yeah, that's better.:kick:

[Binka]

67. Welcome To DU!

I like your style.:hi:

[Stephanie]

60. Kick his ASS, Webb!

I think I'm in love.

[Eurobabe]

62. Bush is clueless apathetic moron with beady little eyes and no heart, AWOL jerk.

Gee, have I left anything out?

I wish Webb woulda decked the asshat.

[anitar1]

64. * reminds me of the fictional Jett Rink,,

In the drunk scene at the end of the movie. A real wimp, who has pretended to be the Big Man.Can't remember the name of the movie---aaargh! James Dean, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor.

[Hardrada]

66. Giant is the movie, supposedly about Texas

Nice cast but not really great material. Has a few good scenes.

[Leilani]

65. Jim Webb has more integrity in his little finger

than Bush has in his whole body.

I hope Webb creates HELL for Bush in the next 2 years!

[StrictlyRockers]

68. Boy, I'd like to slug that smug SOB, too! Right in the kisser. How rude!!

Am I allowed to say that?

Just kidding Agent Mike.

(Not really.)

;P

[sendero]

69. Bush's humility..

... lasted about 3 days. He's got a bumpy ride ahead.

[opihimoimoi]

70. Bushies Arrogance is now his own undoing...Webb had every right to punch the SOB

[ElsewheresDaughter]

72. god keep webbs son save from the long arm of evil *....friendlyfire :(

[katinmn]

73. Why would anyone want to go to a private reception with Junior anyway??

:puke:

Rep-elect Keith Ellison skipped Junior's reception for new legislators. I'm glad.

Junior's treatment of Webb was the norm and should come as no surprise. No one should expect him to act like anything but the rude baboon he is.

[Jennicut]

75. I love Webb!

So much for the "conservative" Democrat! He rocks. If he was alone with Bush in a room, Bushie better watch out. He's an ex-marine and I bet he could break every bone in Chimp's pathetic body. I pray God is looking out for Webb's son and all the other men and women in Iraq because our loser-in-chief certainly isn't!

[kegler14]

76. Better answer...

About as well as can be expected in that hellhole you created. When are your daughters joining him?

[oc2002]

78. You all underestimate Bush, He may have been TRYING to provoke Webb.

There are two explanations, either Bush is a complete moron who just happened to win elections, or he was prodding Webb.

I think its more of the later.

[donco6]

79. I think he's proved to be the former.

He's an idjit.

[spanone]

81. Bush* couldn't give a shit about Webb or anyone elses kids. He's a smart-ass.

[Ha Ha Ha Oh Wow]

82. thats it?

id call that restrained. most people want to do much much worse.

[Old Smokey]

83. Such an asshole

That turd could care less about the soldiers he put in harm's way.

[AspenRose]

88. Agreed

:nuke:

[drone]

84. Poor communicator

He is a poor communicator. I would not invite him to a social events. Especially when he is doing a lot of smiling.

[Ian_rd]

85. Bush wanted: "Fine, Mr. President"

Bush's question was not genuine, and he therefore didn't want a genuine answer. Like when a telemarketer calls and asks you how you're doing, they don't want to know, it's just a simple formality from someone who doesn't give a rat's ass about you or your family.

Webb's response was doubly offensive to the president because it was an unwelcome intrusion of reality into Bush's fantasy camp presidency where all soldiers and their families praise Bush for their opportunity to spread his blessings of liberty to the simple pagan people of the Middle East and love and lionize him with perfect vigilance.

[MindPilot]

91. I wonder how Bush would have reacted if the answer had been

"He's dead, Sir."

[JHB]

89. Tell *: "Sometimes you don't get the answer you want, you go with the answer you've got."

If he needs it explained, I'm sure Rummy will do so cheerfully and off the payroll.

[MindPilot]

90. Webb is a much better man than I

I would be in jail, full of bullets or both.

The fact is that Webb did answer the question. Is there anyone deployed in Iraq who doesn't want to come home?

[Clint Thomas]

93. He can't handle it

Senator Webb just told the truth, and as we all know, Chimpy can't handle the truth!

[formercia]

92. Junior picks on someone with a Navy Cross. n/t

[Botany]

97. Bush has the stones to say anything to Web?

From Webb's bio.

First in his class of 243 at the Marine Corps Officer's Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, Jim served
with the Fifth Marine Regiment in Vietnam, where as a rifle platoon and company commander in
the infamous An Hoa Basin west of Danang he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal,
two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts. He later served as a platoon commander and as an
instructor in tactics and weapons at Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, and then as a member
of the Secretary of the Navy's immediate staff, before leaving the Marine Corps in 1972.

[formercia]

102. Junior is out of his league. n/t

[bumblebee1]

136. Bush not in the same league as Webb?

Helkl, Bush is not in the same ballpark as Webb!!!

[AngryOldDem]

95. What Webb should have asked in return...

"How many bars did your kids get tossed out of in Buenos Aires, Mr. President?"

[lebkuchen]

101. When are the troops coming home, anyway?

[wulfwolf]

103. ....

Okay...erm, WTF?

Granted, I don't like the fella (bush), but...he was right.

It's not his fault that Webb took the comment wrong.

Think about it:

At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb


****how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.****

****Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.***

***“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,”**** Bush retorted, according to the source.

Think about this folks, according to this post...Bush asked how he was doing..., the son...NOT the father.


*sighs*

I don't know why i am opting to be the voice of reason, it's apparent that there is no reason here, just hate.

Remember folks, "Hate is baggage, and the sooner you get rid of it, the better off you are. With it, you are doomed to lose." ~Unknown


*shrugs*

Boot me if you want, but....it's my thought on it all.

[YOY]

130. Hey, that's great logic!

Using that logic a better answer might be "In incredible danger, thanks to your incompetance!"

There is some blind hatred towards the Shrubbery here, but usually the nastiness is pretty damn well justified.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

131. Wah. Five minutes of "Search by author" wasted.

Next time I'll check the profile before. Enjoy the granite pizza, you right-wing asshole. (But I repeat myself)

[Zambero]

104. A decorated veteran would never stoop so low as to slug a cheerleader

It had to have crossed his mind however!

[never cry wolf]

105. Just scanned Webb's bio, he was a varsity boxer at the Academy

Damn, that would have been sweet. Anyone know where in Va. Webb lives? I hope it's close to DC so he can avoid small planes.

[DFW]

109. I know where Webb lives.

It's about a five minute walk from where I grew up.
It's close, but maybe not close enough. When I was
little, there actually was an airport for small planes
at Bailey's Crossroads, a 12 minute car ride, but these
days it's all apartment complexes and shopping malls.
I don't think there will be any light plane crashes, as there
are a lot of Republican hotshots who live in the area, too, not
that a little "friendly fire" is beyond Bush's imagination.

[LeahMira]

106. Programmed...

“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.

Shrub can't respond to anything that isn't in his script. He wasn't given an answer that fit his script or what he was prepared to hear and so he freaked out.

Inflexible? Well, don't expect him to use the phrase "civil war" anytime soon. It's not been put into his script.

[Ganja Ninja]

107. It almost sounds like Bush was making an implied threat.

"How's your son doing?" (He might be doing a lot worse if things don't go my way.)

[annabanana]

124. I admit, that was my initial thought...

I hope his son isn't singled our for retribution.

[eleny]

108. K&R!!!

[Abuhans]

110. World hates us - Bush is a disrespectful anti-social ass. Correlation?

[Supersedeas]

112. The "I-didn't-ask-you" mentality shows its ugly face again!!

[Bitwit1234]

114. Did bush leave abruptly??

To change his underwear. Mr. Coward can't stand up to anybody unless he has 100 secret service around.

[dogday]

119. I would of said, he could be dead at this moment,

I just don't know... Thanks for the war.....

[Counciltucky]

121. If I were Webb...

...I'd have retorted, "Anyway, how are the sluts doing in Argentina?"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

126. lol. that would be cruel, IF boy George cared about anyone else.

even his twin sluts

[Joey Liberal]

123. Webb just earned my respect n/t

[MnFats]

125. Shades of Paul Wellstone!

Remember when newly elected Wellstone presented to Bush I a letter in opposition to HIS war?

I'm going to like this guy

[LuckyLib]

128. Will Webb be the only congressperson with a son or daughter in

Iraq when the new term starts? May he lead the charge to end the insanity there.

[curiousdemo]

129. Kick his sorry ass

Jim!...I guess he'll go tell George Washington or Papa bush.


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[liberal hypnotist]

133. Punch Him Out!

Would Webb be detained in Gitmo? What is the penalty these days for punching out a serial killer?

[opihimoimoi]

134. "....I asked you how is your son....." ...answer: "He is is in unneccessary danger

[Leopolds Ghost]

135. This got great coverage on DC local news.

You could hear Jim Vance go, "MMM-hmm!" B-)