I don’t get it. General Wesley Clark did not say anything untrue or malicious about Republican Presidential nominee John McCain. Here is what Clark said:
“In the matters of national security policy making, it’s a matter of understanding risk. It’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn’t held executive responsibility.”
But those aren’t the words that are causing such a commotion right now. Clark also said, “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
What’s the beef? Clark is RIGHT about McCain!
No doubt McCain is a war hero but does that necessarily make him presidential material? No way! We need to look at McCain’s record in the U.S. Senate to get a better picture as to what he might be like as a President.
In 2002, McCain voted for the Iraq War Resolution. As one column put it, “when American lives were on the line in October 2002, McCain made the wrong call.”
Barack Obama on the other hand has not supported the Iraq War. Why would he? It is a stupid war that never should have started in the first place. Bush and Cheney lied to us and now we are spending, by some accounts, over $14 BILLION a month in Iraq. What a waste!
The fact is, everything else aside, Obama has been right about Iraq. McCain has been wrong. Why in the Hell would we want to put McCain in the White House given his awful record on Iraq?
Clark is right about McCain. But not only is his war experience NOT of any use, it is apparent that McCain learned nothing from his years as a prisoner of war. He is a war-monger and there is no questioning that.
Do we really need to put another nut case in the White House? Eight years of Bush, Cheney and Rummy is enough!
Unreal Art.
General Clark is probably one of the biggest whack jobs retired from the military. Generals lead. Clark is a puss. Was a puss and still is a puss and why he didn’t have a chance to become president.
No doubt McCain had some mental instability after capture 40 YEARS AGO causing him to make some bad decisions when he got home and desirous of flaking out on his wife. I don’t dispell that even though his EX-WIFE DID and still supports him!
McCain went through after war stress syndrome, undiagnosed back in those days, but somehow managed to regain his sanity. Sure he is a hot head. Sure he talks like a drunken sailor. Don’t ask me what names I’ve called my wife. But the one saving grace I see in the old guy is he has learned. He has learned to listen to both sides and jump over the fence when his side is not right no matter what people think.
I want someone who will listen to both sides instead of acting like an arrogant know it all with no experience. I don’t care what you write here but if they sent me back into war again I’d want someone who has been there and done that.
Gen. Clark is looking for media attention but he is still just as much a whacko as a few others that didn’t have the balls to tell the chief of staff what they thought at the time.
Truman may have been a Dem. but he pulled the pin and ended the war. If either of these two guys has the guts, Obama hasn’t shown me that yet.
Clarification. Truman ended his war by pulling the pin, not Vietnam. The point is I want a guy who will make the decision.
right on an 1 . clark talks of judgement . nice judgement from hussain obama. hanging out with rev wright , william ayers ,
Senator Barack Obama has repeatedly voted for Iraq military funding since winning his Senate seat. How can you be against something and still vote to fund it? Senator John McCain’s backing of the surge in Iraq looks to be working, so who is heroic and who is cowardly?
Has it gone un-noticed by you McCain supporters that this guy who “jumps over the fence when his side is not right” is so busy setting up camp firmly on one side of the fence that he now throws grenades over the fence and votes against legislation HE introduced?
IF there ever was anything good about McCain – and that is one big IF, the man sold himself out and lost those qualities long ago. There is a reason the MSM keeps saying that the McCain of today would not vote for the McCain of 2000. I have zero respect for the man.
I stopped admiring McCain after Bush cut his balls off and made him grovel in front of the entire nation. If you have to puss out and suck up to your party like the Grand Oil Party members apparently have to then you dont have what it takes to lead my country.