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What Jim Webb Understands about Enemies that the Rest of the Democratic Candidates Don’t

What Jim Webb Understands about Enemies that the Rest of the Democratic Candidates Don’t

Last updated on: October 15, 2015 at 1:04 pm by Nancy French

What Jim Webb Understands about Enemies that the Rest of the Democratic Candidates Don’t 2015-10-15T13:04:54-05:00 Nancy French

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In this week’s first Democratic Primary Debate, Anderson Cooper asked the candidates to state which of their enemies they were most proud of making. Their answers were as cliché as they were offensive, ranging from the NRA, to “special” interest groups, and the coal industry. Hillary even named the entire Republican party, aka half of the American people.

But it was Jim Webb’s response that got our household’s attention. My husband, David French, writes about Webb’s answer:

His enemy was “The enemy soldier who threw the grenade that wounded me.”

That is an enemy. The makers of Lipitor, Wall Street bankers, health insurance executives, or people who exercise their First Amendment rights to defend the Second Amendment are not. They may oppose you on policy grounds. They may even try to stop your political career. But they are decidedly not your “enemies.” There are real enemies out there, and it’s startling that — aside from Hillary’s offhand reference to the “Iranians” in addition to “the Republicans,” “the NRA,” the “health insurance companies,” and “the drug companies” — none of the other candidates could reach outside of their narrow political experience to name even one.

David continues:

Jim Webb is a patriot, a warrior, and a scholar. While I disagree with him on a number of policy points, he may well have the most impressive biography of any candidate still in the race. Yet spectacles like his fellow Democrats’ enemies lists are exactly what we get when the bulk of our aristocratic class (I’m going to stop using the term “elite” until that status is earned) is largely divorced from the harsh realities of the world. They don’t understand what an enemy is because — thanks to the sacrifices of men like Jim Webb — they haven’t felt the fear and horror of up-close encounters with true evil.

Read David’s entire article here.

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