And when he got defensive when a reporter asked him if he is jewish, and stung back that that’s an ‘aspersion’, well, that just shows what he truly thinks about a certain segment of the population.

And the voters certainly have a right to question anyone who thinks along those lines.

mr allen used the n-word back in college, so what…so do a lot of black folk.

mr allen likes the confederate flag — who cares..
even if he does, he’s just someone who believes in losing, anyone who still loves that flag is a loser anyway…maybe he needs a history lesson.

still not enough to indict the guy…

Council of Conservative Citizens, a group the Conservative PAC said was racist, because it is.

One reason may be that the first black governor of Virginia and now Mayor of Richmond knows that pulling the race card in Virginia without proof is almost certain suicide.

No, the reason that they didn’t use your made up “race card” in Virginia is because people like yourself feel like that its worse to call someone out on their racism than to actually do the racist thing. It reminds me of the Dave Chappelle skit about R Kelly. Unless George Allen was taped with proof of ID and a stenographer saying “I hate black people, and yes I’m a racist.” you still wouldn’t believe he was a racist.

We’re already there! Turn yourself into the ACLU, CAIR, or La Raza if you’ve commmitted one.

In sports, as in the military as in politics, units with unit cohesion win. The team — sports, combat, political — succeeds because the members trust each other. Blindly. And color blindly. The Dude with his team, 2005 Men, in…

One reason may be that the first black governor of Virginia and now Mayor of Richmond knows that pulling the race card in Virginia without proof is almost certain suicide.

It is late in the campaign season and all Webb has been able to muster is a bunch of innuendo that the national press adores but can’t prove.

If Allen is defeated on the basis of how he handles this smear campaign, it says more about the bread and circuses approach to voters than it does about George Allen.

In the above comments you can read the resolve of people who oppose Allen because he is “infatuated” with the Confederate flag, because he stuck a deer head in a black man’s mailbox, because he used the N-word. Not a single one of these charges has been shown to have the least validity, but they are good enough for the bread and circuses bunch. It was always thus. Some folks are only stirred by demagogues and the smell of milling crowd. Get you mud handy, it is going to be a long month.

“The Navy Cross is presented to James H. Webb, Jr., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in connection with combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb’s platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. Accompanied by one of his men, he then approached the second bunker and called for the enemy to surrender. When the hostile soldiers failed to answer him and threw a grenade which detonated dangerously close to him, First Lieutenant Webb detonated a claymore mine in the bunker aperture, accounting for two enemy casualties and disclosing the entrance to a tunnel. Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion and the possibility of enemy soldiers hiding in the tunnel, he then conducted a thorough search which yielded several items of equipment and numerous documents containing valuable intelligence data. Continuing the assault, he approached a third bunker and was preparing to fire into it when the enemy threw another grenade. Observing the grenade land dangerously close to his companion, First Lieutenant Webb simultaneously fired his weapon at the enemy, pushed the Marine away from the grenade, and shielded him from the explosion with his own body. Although sustaining painful fragmentation wounds from the explosion, he managed to throw a grenade into the aperture and completely destroy the remaining bunker. By his courage, aggressive leadership, and selfless devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Webb upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.”

When Webb announced, it was said that he regarded China as a larger threat than terrorism. I was looking forward to that debate, but all we’ve gotten is N-words, deer-heads, “When did you stop being Jewish?”-questions and cartoons of hook-nosed money-grubbers. Shame on Sec. Webb.