OBAMA SUPPORTER WESLEY CLARK ATTACKS JOHN MCCAIN'S WAR RECORD
The campaign is already getting VERY NASTY.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday John McCain’s is a war hero but his “military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief,” according to the AP.
“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,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation. “That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron.”
“If Barack Obama’s campaign wants to question John McCain’s military service, that’s their right,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said after Clark’s appearance Sunday. “But let’s please drop the pretense that Barack Obama stands for a new type of politics. The reality is he’s proving to be a typical politician who is willing to say anything to get elected, including allowing his campaign surrogates to demean and attack John McCain’s military service record.”
Today, the Barack Obama campaign is now distancing itself from Clark’s remarks, according to MSNBC reports
2 Responses to “OBAMA SUPPORTER WESLEY CLARK ATTACKS JOHN MCCAIN'S WAR RECORD”
The title of your post here is a lie. Clarke in fact praised McCain’s war record. He never attacked it in any shape or form. Clark simply wondered how being shot down over Vietnam and spending 5 years in a POW camp qualifies you for running the USA?
It CERTAINLY qualifies you for adoration for bravery and patriotism, as Wesley Clark went out of his way to point out. But how does it apply to managing an economy, or even for managing a nation’s foreign policy?
That is what Clark asked, and that’s what I’m asking too. Oh, and maybe there is an argument to be made that it does qualify one to run a country. How is it that to simply wonder otherwise qualifies as an attack on his war record?
Wesley Clark trips all over himself every time he says anything, and does nothing more than make his liberal cohorts look like the power lusting, lying, manipulative flip floppers that they are.
Last go around, Clark crowed endlessly about Kerry’s service, and how horrible it was that anyone would doubt Kerry’s integrity. He held Kerry up as a hero and ABSOLUTELY advertised his service as a reason why Kerry was fit to be commander in chief.
Now he flip flops right on his face – as he usually does.
Conservatives flip flop from time to time, but they don’t throw any vet under the bus unless that vet is out there denigrating our troops – like Kerry did.
They are two peas in a pod.
Clark is a disgrace to the uniform and it’s a tragedy our soldiers and vets had to listen to him denigrate their service in such a way.
He had NO reason to even bring the issue up other than to attack something honorable about another man.
What a truly stupid man he is.
Danny Vice
http://www.theweeklyvice.com