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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
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.
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“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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Pretty sad when a guy tries to be polite and someone else smacks him over it. Webb acted like a petulant child not an elected statesman.
As for Tom, well this is the left’s Bush Derangement at work. Make up anything you want about him Tom, call him any name you want. We are all suitably impressed and chastened…Not.
All it shows is your own idiocy, not his.
Once upon a time in America, manners and behavior mattered and were a source of pride. Now they are abandoned to the cult of anger. It’s sad when a man who behaves as a gentleman is considered an atavistic anachronism.
Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you atomicswerve for helping everybody remember just how civil and mature our leaders behave. God help us all.
Karl – please, sir. Invading a soverign nation is not polite. Lying repeatedly to the nation is not polite. Taking cronyism to a new level is not polite. Spying on everybody is not polite. Destroying our Constitution is not polite. True “gentlemen” do not live in the current White House. I make up nothing for Mr Bush. Sadly he provides all the ammunition anyone would ever need to question his sanity and leadership. I still have no idea why he has brainwashed you so much. Are you guys related or something? Please stop drinking the kool-aid. Please.
Once upon a time in America, manners and behavior mattered and were a source of pride.
Nowadays, we just sneak behind the German chancellor for a surprise shoulder rub and go on TV to say a vote for our political foes will result in terrorist attacks (oh, but it’s true – right, I forgot).
the cult of anger
Oooh, good one. Saying it really will make it so!
Has anyone even had the sac to assert that Vush rose above the fray and responded graciously to Webb? (but it was justified! – right, I forgot)
Gimpy complained, on my site:
To which I responded:
Just a point of information for you Sis, if you care.
Biwah asked:
Actually, I think President Bush could have responded better than he did; it seems to me that he was caught off-guard on a social occasion, where he just assumed that the guests of honor, the incoming freshmen, were ladies and gentlemen, and knew how to behave themselves accordingly. That’s a weakness we Southerners have.
Dana, I agree with the first 2/3 of your comment. In fact, the gulf between “he’s an a-hole but it was the stress” (me) and “he was caught off-guard” (you) is not as wide as it might seem – but that last bit? Bush was feeling so hospitable, that he was taken aback, that he snapped at Webb?
Oh never mind, I applaud that argument on purely stylistic grounds. What else matters?
“Emily Heil wrote in The Hill: “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.”
- Just the perfect way to start of as a freshman Senator.
- Oh yes. This numbskull will go far in Congress.
- Bang
- Rest of the story here
- Bang
Heres some more concerning the Frosh senator from Virginia, who seems to have a very selctive memory, depending on what he needs at the moment.
excerpt from Power Line…
Webb seems to get off on disrespecting presidents. In 1997, he said:
I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don’t think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.
However, when Webb needed Clinton’s help, he brought the man whose administration he had called “the most corrupt in modern memory” to help him raise funds. Webb explained his about face by claiming that 9/11 had wiped the slate clean.
Thus, if Bush cared, he could take solace in the knowledge that if the wind changes, so too will the attitude of the erratic opportunist from Virginia
Rest here…..
- Bang
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.