Webb-mania revisited

Kathy G, guest-blogging for Matt Yglesias, lays out a lengthy case for why Barack Obama should not pick Jim Webb as his Vice-President here. I suspect that the points she makes will prove persuasive and that Obama won’t choose Webb, not least because of concerns over his attitude towards women and gender issues generally. It’s true that Webb’s most controversial statements on women in the military were made more than a generation ago, but thats not the point. As Kathy says, women are a vital Democratic constituency and, with so many women disappointed by Clinton’s favour, there’s no need to rub salt in their wounds by picking a Veep such as Webb.

Kathy G then writes:

In addition, I just don’t buy many of the pro-Webb arguments. One argument I hear is that Webb would be great because Obama needs “credibility” on foreign policy. But as Mori Dinauer has pointed out, this may “just underscore the notion that Obama is somehow weak on foreign policy.”