If you have not heard about the Jim Webb situation, you should check it out. Assuming I am on the fence, why should I vote for him. Please spare me the usual blather about how you think the other guy is a [fill in the blank] and stick with the facts. The inability to do so is what originally led me astray in the first place.
2006-10-27 17:40:11 · 10 answers · asked by Raalnan5 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Senator George Allen has been viciously attacked by the left and everything that they have come up with has not stood the truth test. I have read the excerpts from Webb's novels and I was thoroughly disgusted. I know that these were fiction novels but if someone has this in their mind how can they separate this from their personal lives and the decisions they make. I would hope that Virginia would vote for the only truly honorable man in the race. Senator George Allen.
2006-10-27 17:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Being author of some tarted-up bad fiction is not the same as being a pervert. If a person can't write decent literature the publisher asks to have it sexed up, just like the movies.
There are plenty of people in public life, believe it or not, who have done just that. Wait a day or two and you will hear about it, because I can remember some news articles about that in the past year.
2006-10-28 00:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many of Webb’s novels have you read?
Jim Webb has written six best-selling novels, including Fields of Fire (l978), considered by many to be the classic novel of the Vietnam War. He taught literature at the US Naval Academy as their first visiting writer. He has traveled worldwide as a journalist, earning an Emmy Award for his coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut.
From l977 to l98l, he served as a full committee counsel in the Congress (the first Vietnam veteran to do so).
During the Reagan Administration from l984 to l987, he was the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.
In 1987, he became Secretary of the Navy, a position he resigned from in 1988 after refusing to agree in the reduction of the Navy's force structure during congressionally-mandated budget cuts.
Countless authors and publishers have been prosecuted or had works banned that are considered literary classics. Here are just a few:
Ulysses by James Joyce
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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CajunBilly -
You might want to think about this statement:
"....but if someone has this in their mind how can they separate this from their personal lives and the decisions they make..."
If this were true, humans would be so weak-mind that they would be insanely stupid and criminal, turning into were-creatures or mindless zombies every time they saw, heard, or read something. You know, ... like conservatives.
2006-10-28 01:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
this is just the latest in a string of republican slime assaults...webb's novels are fiction...look up the word...does your logic extend to other writers? does that make steven king a serial killer? typical right-wing hyperbole...and spare me the 'assuming i am on the fence' crap...your first line- 'a proud pervert' gives you away...you're not on the fence...you're either a committed allen supporter, or an allen volunteer...and it wouldn't surprise me for allen to have phony 'undecideds' asking pretend questions to try to lure real undecideds into his column...after all, one of his top advisers was an instrumental part of the 'swift boat veterans for truth' slime squad...at least i'm straight up acknowledging that i am going to be casting my vote for jim webb (who has actually written books) instead of that incompetent bush-cuddling fool allen (who MIGHT have actually READ a book)
2006-10-28 07:11:29 · answer #4 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sounds like u guys have problems with the people in virginia, o well, what r u gonna do, and no i havent heard of the jim webb situation, cause frankly i dont care to hear about other states messes, i have my own in IL. so stop whining
2006-10-28 02:13:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why, is Michael Jackson running?
2006-10-28 00:47:54 · answer #6 · answered by vinny_the_hack 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why not? Virginia is for loves or is perverts i forget which one? ....lol
2006-10-28 00:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by no one here gets out alive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They shouldn't vote for perverts but they are dumb bigots.
2006-10-28 01:01:38 · answer #8 · answered by HawkEye 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
VOTE YOUR WAY NOV 7
2006-10-28 00:42:06 · answer #9 · answered by cork 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I like Allen better
2006-10-28 00:52:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋