Webb's Vision for Defense

By Spencer Ackerman 06/02/2008 | 5 Comments

Everywhere Sen. Jim Webb goes, someone's asking him if he wants to be vice president.

The freshman Virginia senator's appearances on "Meet The Press" typically end with an attempt by the host Tim Russert to elicit a categorical statement of whether or not he'd like to be Sen. Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic ticket. Webb usually tries his best to demure. "I've never had a conversation with Barack about any of this, so it’s really out of line to speculate," he told Deborah Solomon in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday.