Jim Webb’s head just showed up on my TV screen, during the Rachel Maddow Show.\u00c2\u00a0 “Finally,” I thought,”He’s going to come out swinging for Obama!”.\u00c2\u00a0 Umm,\u00c2\u00a0 no.\u00c2\u00a0 He was there to defend retiring Sen. Chuck Hagel, in the way of his comments about Palin’s incompetence.\u00c2\u00a0 And while that’s a completely honorable thing to do, I still have to wonder – where’s Jim Webb?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s the one who was hailed at the great white hope for Democrats in Virginia.\u00c2\u00a0 So why is it that it’s Terry Freakin’ McAuliffe that’s going on a tour of Virginia (ostensibly in support of Obama, but mostly to find out that the idea of him running for governor is a complete joke)?\u00c2\u00a0 I know Virginia’s Democrats have a tradition of identifying themselves as anything *but* Democrats, but this is getting ridiculous . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jim Webb’s head just showed up on my TV screen, during the Rachel Maddow Show.\u00c2\u00a0 “Finally,” I thought,”He’s going to come out swinging for Obama!”.\u00c2\u00a0 Umm,\u00c2\u00a0 no.\u00c2\u00a0 He was there to defend retiring Sen. Chuck Hagel, in the way of his comments about Palin’s incompetence.\u00c2\u00a0 And while that’s a completely honorable thing to do, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}