World Wide Webb
June 11, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Another installment in our regular check-in of the media’s fast and furious coverage of Vice President Jim Webb.
“Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as it goes about the business of scouring the backgrounds of possible running mates. But it’s unlikely they’ll find one so curious as Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb’s affinity for the cause of the Confederacy.”
Tim Noah in Slate (via Instapundit):
… Webb’s personal history has demonstrated time and again that he can’t play well with the other children. A volcanic temperament is endurable in a novelist or an opera singer. It is not endurable at the bottom of a national ticket. Nominating Webb isn’t worth the risk that he’ll alienate important constituencies, embarrass Obama, or break with him outright. …
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