Who is this Jim Webb guy, anyway?

[dreamshark]

How does a freshman senator that won his election by a fluke get picked to give the official Democratic response to the presidential State of the Union? From where I sit, it's an inexplicable choice, but a brilliant one. This is a dynamite speech! read it here

cakmpls, you should find it particularly interesting, as it seems to speak directly to your post a few days ago about workers and wages. (Do you think Senator Webb is reading your LJ???)

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[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

...as it seems to speak directly to your post a few days ago about workers and wages. (Do you think Senator Webb is reading your LJ???)

Probably not. If she's been reading and agreeing with what Webb had to say in Born Fighting, then that's probably why it sounds familiar; he's a populist of the type that was popular in the Midwest and South back in the late 19th and early 20th century.