"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."
Webb is a Bush Democrat. In other words a Republican who got fed up with the GOP for following Bush and the neocons' radical agendas. Webb has a strong libertarian streak that appeals to me. He got a perfect score on the NRA's candidate questionnaire. He supports civil unions for same sex couple and is pro choice. He's also anti-Iraq-war without being antiwar. He fought in Vietnam as Marine and served as Reagan's Sec. of the Navy. He is, hopefully, gonna raise hell on bringing our troops home. He's off to a good start.
Thank you Macaca.
I find it deliciously ironic that the end of the "War on Terror Made by Brown People in Iraq (TM)" might have started with a racial slur.
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