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"They're sending other people's kids to war," Webb says. "They're allowing other people's kids to suffer from bad schools, outsourced jobs, crime-ridden neighborhoods, deflated futures, no health insurance. They've lost sight of why they should be in government in the first place."
There are some important federal issues -- education, immigration, health care -- that he barely mentions. When a questioner in Fredericksburg asked one day whether Webb could give a two-word prescription for overhauling the health-care system, Webb thought for a moment and replied, "Help everyone." He declined to elaborate. The questioner said later that he was hoping to hear "single payer."
A staple in the campaign against Webb is a 1979 article about the Naval Academy he wrote for the Washingtonian, "Women Can't Fight." It was a no-holds-barred attack on the decision to admit women to the academy, saying it "poisoned" the mission of developing combat leaders.
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