Webb-Edwards Fundraiser in Oakton: Great Photo

By: Lowell
Published On: 9/27/2006 10:38:13 AM

From left to right, that's Jim Webb's wife Hong, Jim Webb, John Edwards, Robert Hovis, and Chap Petersen.  The house was packed, the wine and food were abundant, and a great time was had by all.

More photos are available here.


Comments



That IS a great shot! (phriendlyjaime - 9/27/2006 10:40:33 AM)
Sounds great, too bad I missed it.

Also, too bad Allen has to have all the media, albeit negative; if he didn't keep sticking his foot in his mouth and destroying his political career, we might get more coverage on issues and events like these.  Sigh.  At least he'll be gone come November.



COMMENT HIDDEN (blackamerican - 9/27/2006 10:51:23 AM)


bored? (loboforestal - 9/27/2006 11:17:03 AM)
Blah Kamerican, slow day down at Allen headquarters?


Anyone who's any good at lying (Andrea Chamblee - 9/27/2006 11:23:12 AM)
is trying to come up with the first of three deer-head excuses, to go with the three macaca excuses and the three Jewish explanations. I guess that means this guy isn't even clever enough to come up with one of the Top Three Lame Excuses for George Allen.


Mount Vernon vs Oakton (Alicia - 9/27/2006 11:32:03 AM)
Did you ask Georgie that after his Mount Vernon fundraiser?  He's the one with the race issues silly.


The part of America... (Delta Mike - 9/27/2006 11:45:02 AM)
... that actually realizes there are two Americas, and that the richer part of America has an obligation to assist the poorer part of America.


Which America? (Teddy - 9/27/2006 11:14:50 AM)
Answer: Middle America. You know, Middle Earth.  Middle Earth to the GOP: You think yammering Terror! Terror! and Tax Cut! and Gay Marriage! and Abortion! and Nasty Illegal Immigrants! and Welfaire Queens! will herd us sheep into the fold so your globalization wolves can shear us and slaughter us for profit? Enough is enough, you lying bozos. We're on to you and your nouveau riche, tasteless, greedy, self-righteous elites. We're coming to get you. 


Uh-oh (Eric - 9/27/2006 11:19:00 AM)
Now you've done it.  Got Teddy all fired up.  That's just begging for trouble.

Way to tear 'em up Teddy!



COMMENT HIDDEN (blackamerican - 9/27/2006 12:35:53 PM)


Throwing words like "moonbats" around (Lowell - 9/27/2006 12:48:59 PM)
is meaningless.  Make an argument, or find another blog.  Also, I would point out that Kansas, the heart of the "heartland," is seeing a trend of Republicans switching to the Democratic Party, mainly because they feel the Republican Party has gone way too far to the right and also because it does NOT represent the values of average, "middle America" people. 


COMMENT HIDDEN (blackamerican - 9/27/2006 1:11:04 PM)


Middle America doesn't support the war in Iraq (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:23:35 PM)


Middle America doesn't support tax breaks for offshoring (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:30:27 PM)


Middle America doesn't support record deficit spending (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:24:30 PM)


Middle America doesn't support incompetent emergency response (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:26:45 PM)


Middle America doesn't support cronyism, graft, corruption (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:28:11 PM)


Middle America doesn't support George W. Bush (RayH - 9/27/2006 1:32:52 PM)

Middle America will see you on November 7. You'll be in the small group.


Middle America does not support tax cuts (Lowell - 9/27/2006 2:20:36 PM)
for the top 1%, while everyone else gets screwed.

Middle America doesn's support letting a great American city - New Orleans - lie in ruins while the President tells the guy in charge that he's doing a "heckuva job."

Middle America doesn't support being addicted to foreign oil.

Middle America doesn't support huge budget deficits.

Middle America doesn't support the government blocking action to cure horrible diseases using embryonic stem cells.

Middle America doesn't suport an excutive branch running rougshod over the other branches and over the Consittution.

Middle America doesn't support turning the United States into a theocracy.

Middle America doesn't support leaving a lot of children behind.

Middle America doesn't support skyrocketing health care costs and crappy coverage.

Etc., etc.



Another person defends Dr Shelton (Jeff B - 9/27/2006 12:04:53 PM)
Someone new has come forward to backup Dr Shelton.

A former college classmate of George Allen and Ken Shelton, the North Carolina radiologist who says Allen regularly used the N-word in the 1970s and once stuck the head of a deer in the mailbox of a black family, has come forward to corroborate one of Shelton's accusations.

"I'm not out to get George Allen," says George Beam, a 53 year-old technical manager in the nuclear industry, who lives in Forest, Virginia. "I just think Kenny Shelton is a fine, upstanding person, and I know he is telling the truth."

Beam was roommates with Billy Lanahan, now deceased, who, along with Allen and Shelton, was the third member of the now infamous hunting party. According to Beam, Lanahan later told him the bizarre story of the three men stuffing the deer head into a mailbox. He says Lanahan did not tell him that the prank had any racial overtones.

"Some time drinking a beer at U Heights," Beam says, referring to the campus housing complex where Beam, Lanahan, and Allen all lived, "Lanahan told me they went hunting and killed a deer. All I know is they cut off a deer head and stuck it in someone's mailbox...He didn't say it was racial -- just said they stuck it in a mailbox as a prank."



Allen Websites (Arlington Tom - 9/27/2006 12:33:01 PM)
On two websites the A/B Team is promoting a cartoon image hunting "webbites". Intesting they are promoting all this now- Anyone got a dear's head on their porch yet?

Curious they have stayed with this direction at this point in the campaign- Good for them- Look at their pages- they really don't have anything to say other than some very stale stuff on everyone else wants to raise taxes etc.

http://www.vaconserv...
http://unitedconserv...



Bicoast elites? (Teddy - 9/27/2006 1:23:03 PM)
Some one on this thread sneered at my comments about Middle America. Knock it off, airhead. My values are pretty much down the middle, which, thanks to the neocon- Republicans' yanking everything so far to the right, now is made to seem leftist--- but it is not. Basically, I believe in live and let live, we don't need busybody government any more than we need nanny government, and you self-righteous idiots and bullies can get off my back. As for the wonderful red states (by which I assume they mean Kansas, Nebraska, and so on), my ancestors settled there by covered wagon, walking most of the way, incidentally. Once these good folks truly realize how they've been conned and bamboozled by the Yalie elite Harvard business MBA phony currently sitting in the Oval Office, they may very well march in a fury on Washington, and it won't be to kiss the ring of the self-aggrandizing bully perched there. 


COMMENT HIDDEN (blackamerican - 9/27/2006 4:23:49 PM)


Blah K. American, (loboforestal - 9/27/2006 6:47:53 PM)
Were you sent here to provoke?  Do you get a bonus if one of us loses it?

GET A LIFE.

and get lost.



Everyone Was Invited (BP - 9/27/2006 6:54:04 PM)
This was a fundraiser.  If you made a contribution, you could attend.  And, yes there were African American attendees, including a guest of mine.


Besides Black, there was every color of the human rainbow (Used2Bneutral - 9/27/2006 11:05:35 PM)
Several Asian Indians, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Hispanic from all over, Europeans, Australians, even a Native American Indian.... there is never any restriction at a Hovis sponsored party or for that matter ANY democratic fund raiser I have EVER attended..... there were even a bunch of my Republiican friends whom are voting otherwise this year on most but not all campaigns.... There was even a 13 year old, Shane, whom is an amazing black child who has unlimited energy supporting the various campaigns.... he says to anyone whom asks, that he wants be a democrat senator some day.....

You can't play the race card on this side of the Aisle, at least not in any part of Virginia I continuously travel into with my real job (which is the whole state).



COMMENT HIDDEN (Jane Oldham - 9/28/2006 1:45:55 AM)


I guess that this paragraph didn't make... (Loudoun County Dem - 9/28/2006 7:14:08 AM)
Mr Cragg's claims sound suspicious to you...

Cragg said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Cragg, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later.

Hmmm,

Cragg said he approached the Allen campaign through a friend after hearing Webb's answer to the Times-Dispatch reporter's question about using the N-word.

No corraboration, The Allen campaign trots this guy out (while the MANY people with accounts of Allen are coming from the media, not the Webb campaign)... I smell swiftboat and panic from the Allen Camp, but it's not like Chris LaCivita has ever done something like this before (Oh, right).

Jane, your fear is palpable.