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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Senator Jim Webb starts off his tenure in the Senate on the wrong foot
And in the process has no doubt endeared himself to the MSM. Why? Read on:
At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia’s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn’t long before Bush found him.
“How’s your boy?” Bush asked, referring to Webb’s son, a Marine serving in Iraq.
“I’d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,” Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme.
“That’s not what I asked you,” Bush said. “How’s your boy?”
“That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” Webb said coldly, ending the conversation on the State Floor of the East Wing of the White House.
[...]
“I’m not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall,” Webb said in an interview yesterday in which he confirmed the exchange between him and Bush. “No offense to the institution of the presidency, and I’m certainly looking forward to working with him and his administration. [But] leaders do some symbolic things to try to convey who they are and what the message is.”
In the days after the election, Webb’s Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill went out of their way to make nice with Bush and be seen by his side. House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sat down for a lunch and photo opportunity with Bush, as did Democratic leaders in the Senate.
Not Webb, who said he tried to avoid a confrontation with Bush at the White House reception but did not shy away from one when the president approached.
I’m with Dana Pico, on this one. He asks:
My question would be: if the honorable gentleman from Virginia didn’t want to be seen or photographed with, or polite to, the President of the United States, why did he attend a White House reception in the first place? He’s a free man; he could have stayed away.
Disgusting.
Indeed. So much for being able to ‘put differences aside in order to be able to work together’, eh?
Looks like we have another juvenile Bush hater in the Senate, folks. Just what we needed.
Hat tip: Brian at Iowa Voice, who notes that the Nutroots are lapping it up.
Read more via K-Lo, Michael van der Galien at The Moderate Voice
(Cross-posted at Right Wing News)
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I dont find his response necessarily rude.
I think he responded directly by trying to re-ask the question, which was a polite how is he doing.
Webb’s initial response was so tacky I imagine he was taken aback.
Webb was an ass.
Sister, I think your site has been taken hotage by the moonbats, wish we could go on their sites and reek havoc. !!!!!
- Drewsmom – Avoid them like the plague. The last time I made a forage into the fevor swamps of the moonbat communes, it took a week to get the smell out of my nostrils. At least, if you decide to take the plunge, make sure your shots are all up to date.
- Bang
Bang, the quality of your humor doesn’t do anything to dispel my suspicion that you are actually just a collection of microchips.
Can the insults and name-calling, everyone, please.
Sis? Is it ok to call Webb an ass? I was nice to everyone else.
Sure – public figures are fair game, here.
Whew. Didnt wanna violate your ethics
HEHE
Karl asked:
And our beautiful blogmistress gave him permission. Me, I prefer referring to a couple of people as “the slang term for the human rectum,” when the need calls for it!
Can the insults and name-calling, everyone, please.
Darn- a day late and a dollar short, as usual!
Webb turns out to be an immature jerk. Color me surprised!
“…[our] beautiful blogmistress”
- Although certainly true – Still – shameless suckup!…. *snort*
- Ok, as our blog Sistah has asked us to refrain, I can’t call you a typical Left-wing knuckleheaded twit biwah, so I won’t. *snicker*
- Bang
I didn’t vote for Webb, but expected better than this. Seems that for every Texan who misunderestimated Bush, there’s a Virginian who misoverestimated Webb.
Bang, I always try for complimentary citations, as in “our esteemed host(ess)”, but “beautiful blogmistress is much more alliterative!
I suppose there are sites where I could write “our bitchy bloghostess,” but this ain’t one of ‘em.
I thought webb was a tad on the rude side towards Bush, just my .02 though.