Nathan Moore's Thoughts
Wesley Clark: Barack Obama Has No Command Experience, and Is Not Fit for the Presidency
This morning on MSNBC, former General Wesley Clark, best known for laying a complete egg in his bid for the 2004 Democrat nomination for president, pronounced that because John McCain had no military command experience, his military credentials are questionably suited for the presidency.
Political junkies all around the world either smacked their foreheads or laughed out loud. I think I did both.
Only then, in an epiphany, did I realize that the military acronym “CO” actually stood for “Community Organizer.” If it is otherwise, Clark’s screwball standards just damned his preferred candidate’s campaign to oblivion. If McCain’s 5 1/2 years as a POW, coming back to serve another eight years in the Navy, and in all, being a graduate of the Naval Academy, is irrelevant to McCain’s credentials to be president, then Obama ought to pack it up and go back to his comrades in Illinois.
Of course, unless Barack Obama’s executive experience in organizing communities is more substantive than John McCain’s military career. I’ll let the Obama-ites make the case for that one.
What’s worse, however, is Barack Obama’s faux slap-down of Clark, claiming that supporters of both sides should be held accountable for denigrating the other’s military service.
What military service a McCain surrogate would smack down of Obama’s is still entirely unclear at the time of this writing. Perhaps we will learn something new. Maybe his organized community troops called him “sarge” or something. I don’t know.
What we do know for certain is that a) Wesley Clark is an embarrassment to himself, and b) Barack Obama is manipulative and disingenous. These two things are certain, and the latter is starting to manifest itself more as a character trait than an anomaly.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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July 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Let’s see… it was Christmas of 1968 that John Kerry made his mysterious boat trip with the CIA into Cambodia… and it was in 1968 that Obama made the curious trip to ‘Indonesia’ with his mother… hmmm…
Coincidence? I think not!
Yes, Obama at age 7 was working with John Kerry on a CIA Special Ops. Mission to Cambodia on Christmas Day of 1968. How dare you criticize Obama’s patriotisms and Love of Country! It’s because he’s black, isn’t it!
July 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Wow, you got me!
I hope they pull more of this. Attempting to impugn McCain’s military service is, without mincing word or thought, absolutely stupid.
Obama is unqualified to be an United States Senator. much less president. The case for him is stretched to begin with.
What I have found peculiar is the lack of perception on the Left regarding military service. John Kerry and John McCain’s service are not equal. The SBV4T were right in 2004 - but there is no doubting John McCain’s dedication to his country.
What irritates me more than anything is the continued insistance in the last few days that McCain is unfairly touting his military record. In fact, it is the Democrats bringing it up, for the sole and immoral purpose of tearing it down.
Shame is a kind word.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am
It’s a special form of the straw-man that they are pulling where they simply say the opponent is guilty of something that’s half-way believable then shift into a full-blown criticism. The sound-bytes get played repeatedly without any context so the unfounded attack stands.
That combined with the whole victim posture makes for a formidable opponent in this Oprah generation.
Carter II could become a reality if McCain just stays on the defensive.