Bush acting stupid again/Jim Webb = Awesome

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Politics as usual.  Webb should have taken the higher road and just acted cordial.  When your superior tries to have a conversation with you, you show respect, if only to keep the atmosphere friendly.  If Webb is such a robot that talking points slip into his everyday speaking habits, why is he deserving of any new respect from Democrats?  I will like Webb as a Senator when he piles up a liberal voting record.  Right now, I am not impressed, because I wouldn't be impressed if a Republican Senator-elect had done the same thing to Clinton in the 1990s.

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Bush deserves no respect for his lies to push his warmongering agenda that uses young men such as Jimmy Webb as cannon fodder.

This is true, but it's not like Webb had to respond to Bush with a stupid campaign talking point.  Webb is basically using his son for political purposes.

No one is innocent or benign here, and it's certainly not a very shining event for either of them.  More a non-event than anything else, other than two grown men in Washington D.C. being unable to hold a conversation without entering into a pissing match.

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You're talking about Jim Webb, the same guy who made it a point during his campaign to not allow his son to be used in campaign commercials??? The same guy who refused to mention his son's name on the stump???

The obvious point is you could not be more worng.

You're making enemies with the wrong person here.

Just because Webb didn't use his son for political purposes in the campaign does not mean he is incapable of doing so now.  Bush asked him a question about his son personally and Webb responded with a vague talking point about Iraq.  It wouldn't have been appropriate to do that if Bush had brought up any other subject, but his son allowed the perfect gateway -- thus, he was being used for political purposes.

This is not a difficult concept to grasp.

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Uh, Bush asked him a question about his son.  He used the oppurtunity to tell the President he wants all of the troops to come home.  Thus it stopped being personal and became political.  Webb used his position as a father of a troop to be able to do this.  And don't think for a second that this wasn't going to make its way to the media.  It probably worked exactly as Webb planned.  This is scoring him major points among Democrats who were unsure whether he would be a good Senator.