Jimmy's Got Some 'Splainin' To Do

This Washington Post article makes me grateful to the Democrat/ics for embracing James H. Webb, Jr. and welcoming him into their fold. The Watts incident sheds some light on his desperate attempts to paint Senator George Allen as a racist. And all this time I thought Mr. Webb was opposed to the "Pre-emptive Strike Option".

Webb's comments to the Times-Dispatch prompted Allen campaign officials to direct a reporter to Dan Cragg, a former acquaintance of Webb's, who said Webb used the word while describing his own behavior during his freshman year at the University of Southern California in the early 1960s. Webb later transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Cragg, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Webb described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his ROTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.

"They would hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts with these buddies of his," Cragg said Webb told him. "They would take the rifles down there. They would call then [epithets], point the rifles at them, pull the triggers and then drive off laughing. One night, some guys caught them and beat . . . them. And that was the end of that."

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