Jim Webb is the most interesting politician to arrive since John and Bobby Kennedy lit up the 1960’s political scene. He’s now the junior senator from Virginia, and most pundits are largely ignoring him to date, but the political landscape is about to see some seismic changes thanks to the soon-to-be-Honorable James Webb. We’d all be well-served to fasten our seat belts now, because it’s going to be a wild (and most enjoyable) ride.The latest Webb presence was reported in the Washington Post, involving a story of Webb snubbing Bush at a recent get-together. It appears that the Bush camp didn’t appreciate Webb’s candor, and so the GOP smear machine fired off a shot at Webb via its resident GOP apologist George Will. Will’s subsequent column in the Post took Webb to task for being rude to King-Georgie-the-Incompetent, but omitted the crucial context for Webb’s snub, and thus Will is now being rightly taken to task for journ...
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