That's It. I'm sold.

Catching up on my Econonomists this weekend, I read this:

The main worry about [Senator Jim ] Webb, however, is that he is a genuine fire-breathing economic populist. He appears actually to believe the sort of stuff that Mr Obama only says during Democratic primaries. Since vice-presidents sometimes become presidents, this matters. American workers, says Mr Webb, “are at the mercy of cut-throat executives who are vastly overpaid, partly as a consequence of giving [the workers'] jobs away to other people.” Illegal immigration and globalisation “threaten to dissipate” the American middle-class way of life. He predicts that, unless the government acts to restore “economic fairness”, America “may well go the way of ancient Greece [or] greed-ridden Rome”.

This is actually their only worry, by the way. And remember Webb's great Wall Street Journal opinion of last fall?

If The Economist thinks that "Jim Webb would make a poor running-mate for Barack Obama," I am 100% positive that he'd be perfect.

Oh, here he is on "The Daily Show" (h/t commenter FireMonkey):



Update: People are telling me that Webb just told MSNBC that he won't be BHO's VP. Oh, well. Here's my second choice: