Lesniak favors Obama-Webb ticket

Webb would be a great pick, but not sure that having 2 Senators on the ticket is so smart.

Tough call. If polling suggests Virginia is in play w/ Webb, then it makes sense.

Gee, maybe the reason Ray Lesniak is publicly supporting Jim Webb for Vice President, is because Jim Webb openly supports John McCain's position on drilling for more oil, including offshore oil -- i.e., giving states greater leeway in decision-making about drilling off their shores.

In fact, The Hill reports that Jim Webb has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to do just that, by fellow Virginia Senator John Warner.

Given Barack Obama's very strong position vehemently opposing any such new drilling, it would only be natural that his running mate should hold the exact opposite view, no?

Here is how Hillary Clinton might respond to this development.

by Trochilus

Sen. Raymond Lesniak is about as anti-change, pro-corporation and undemocratic as they come. Why would any Clintonite's opinion matter about Obama's Veep choices?

One of the things Democrats like best about Jim Webb was that he "dissed" President Bush, when the President politely asked Jim how his son Jimmy was doing a few years back. A lance corporal in the Marine Corps, Jimmy was at the time serving our country in Iraq.

The incident, in which Webb rebuffed the President’s question, occurred at a White House reception for newly elected members of Congress. Those who here are so enamored of the story about that testy exchange should also familiarize themselves with the entire story.

When Senator Jim Webb's son Jimmy returned from Iraq, Senator Webb called the President and asked if he could bring his son to see the White House to have a private chat. Always the gentleman, the President immediately said yes of course, and to bring him by.

As related earlier this spring in the Washington Post:

To "bury the hatchet" with Bush, as he put it, Webb even initiated a private chat with his Marine son, Jimmy, and the president in the Oval Office after Jimmy returned from Iraq.

No doubt young Jimmy told the old man that he was proud of his service in Iraq, and proud of the incredible turn around by his fellow troops in Iraq, given the implementation of the surge.

We should all credit Jim Webb for putting aside his pride and burying the hatchet. But, of course, for the Bush-hating left this will no doubt prove too much. Combined with Webb’s recent endorsement of ending the off-shore drilling moratorium, he will certainly be thrown under the Obama bus.

Boy, it’s getting crowded under there, huh?

by Trochilus