JIM WEBB looking more serious about challenging Hillary Clinton.

In his speech last week at the National Press Club, Webb spoke to what he believes is a sense of economic dread and war weariness in the electorate.

“It’s rare when the economy crashes at the same time we are at war,” he said. “The centrifugal forces of social cohesion are spinning so out of control that the people at the very top exist in a distant outer orbit, completely separated in their homes, schools and associations from those of us who are even in the middle.”

Hmm. Sounds like he’s been reading Joel Kotkin’s new book. Which every aspiring candidate should.

What I like about Jim Webb is that he’s not a typical lefty weenie. On the other hand, he behaved poorly in that gun incident. More on that here.