Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) on Tuesday said he is thinking about running for president during a National Press Club luncheon.
Former Sen. Jim Webb at the National Press Club: “I’m seriously looking at the possibility of running for president.”
— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) September 23, 2014
Webb: I am seriously looking at the possibility of running for president. Taking a hard look. #npclunch
— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) September 23, 2014
Jim Webb: “I am seriously looking at the possibility of running for president….we’ll get back to you in a few months.”
— Lisa Lerer (@llerer) September 23, 2014
Webb retired from the Senate in 2013 and has been promoting his memoir, “I Heard My Country Calling,” which he published in May.
He has suggested that he’ll run for president before.
“The Diane Rehm Show” guest host Susan Page asked Webb in May whether he would consider running in 2016.
“My wife and I are just thinking about what to do next. I care a lot about where the country is, and we’ll be sorting that out,” he responded, according to the Washington Post. “It takes me a while to decide things. I’m not going to say one way or the other.”
He clarified later that week that he’s taking the decision “a day at a time.” He said that he was “not saying I’m not” running for president.
I see he finally succumbed to the pressure from the “Draft Jim Webb” movement.
So now the HRC alternatives are beginning to show themselves and I predict that she is going to start looking better and better. This dude can run as an “anti-war” candidate (whatever that means) but he is NOT a liberal or a progressive. In point of fact he was the only Democrat on the Armed Services Committee in 2010 that voted against repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as they say.
OMG HRC attacked from the right and all Bill’s kissy face with Dubya and it’s over President Biden (Biden/Warren that is).
Never trust a ginger!
“My wife and I are just thinking about what to do next.”
A lot of former famous couples in VA are in the same situation. Follow Eric not Bob.