Gen. Clark Makes A Fool Out Of Himself On ‘Face The Nation’
Anyone who didn’t see “Face The Nation” this morning really missed out. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark made a total fool out of himself attacking John McCain. He said John McCain doesn’t have the credentials to be President, but Barack Obama does. Not only did he say that, but he said it with a straight face.
Clark dug deeper by saying of McCain, “He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall” as a wartime commander.” Clark is right on that one. McCain never “ordered” bombs to fall, he dropped them himself.
In less there’s a secret double life that Barack Obama has been leading as a grizzled wartime commander, Clark is hallucinating.
When Bob Schieffer interrupted Clark’s incoherent statements by mentioning that McCain was shot down in a fighter jet over Vietnam, Clark said he didn’t think that qualified him to be President.
Right before I kicked my TV over, Schieffer asked what had to be on the minds of millions of Americans at that moment. “What experience does Barack Obama have in that area?”
Still keeping his straight face, Clark explained to an incredulous Bob Schieffer that Obama wasn’t running on that. Obama is running on the “strength of his character” and “good judgement” the misguided General said.
So what Clark is saying is that John McCain’s nearly 30 years of foreign policy experience is meaningless, and while Barack Obama has zero years of foreign policy experience that’s okay since he has “strength of character” and “good judgment.”
I’m assuming the “good judgement” Clark is referring to is the same judgment that kept Barack Obama sitting in front of Rev. Wright’s hate filled diatribes for 20 years.
The same judgement that has allowed him to befriend every radical left-wing thug the South side of Chicago has producted over the last three decades.
There are plenty of legitimate issues that Obama’s surrogates can choose to attack John McCain on, but foreign policy experience is hardly on of them.
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30 years of foreign policy experience doesn’t help if you don’t learn a goddamn thing from it.
Particularly the last 7 years…
My only point is that it’s absurd to say John McCain doesn’t have the credentials to be President, when comparing him to a guy with barely 1 term as a Senator under his belt.
He was not saying McCain didn’t have the credentials. He was saying that McCain’s war time experiences in and of themselves do not automatically give him the credentials.
Can you not see the difference? All the hub-bub over Clark’s statement is another example of the right wing media twisting things to fit their agenda.
Barack Obama has no experience doing anything.