Wes Clark: McCain Lacks Executive Experience To Be POTUS … As Opposed To Hussein?!?
Hey, Wes … Mac has been a Senator far longer than Hussein has NOT been a Muslim, NOT attended his church on those nasty sermon days, NOT been half white, NOT taken funny-money from Tony Rezko … or even HAS been a Senator …
Or YOU, for that matter … Say, didn’t YOU try to run for POTUS?
And don’t get me started on your girl Hillary. Just sit down and STFU!
Retired US General Wesley Clark on Sunday said Republican White House hopeful John McCain lacked executive experience to be president, in rare criticism of the Vietnam veteran’s military service.
Clark told CBS television that McCain was a hero for enduring years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam “but he hasn’t held executive responsibility.
“That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall.”
Clark, former NATO supreme allied commander, said McCain’s combat experience as a fighter pilot did not make him more qualified to be president than Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
“Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” he said.
Clark said Obama had shown good judgment and talent as a communicator, saying the US president’s greatest authority came from the power to persuade.
The general, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, had initially endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton in this year’s White House race. She lost to Obama in a hard-fought campaign.
“He’s running on his strength of character, on the strengths of his communication skills, on the strengths of his judgment. And those are qualities that we seek in our national leadership,” Clark said of Obama.
Criticizing McCain’s support for the US administration’s policy on Iraq, Clark said “what Barack Obama understands is that military force may have to be used as a last resort, but it’s not the first resort.”
McCain has painted the younger Obama as inexperienced and naive on foreign policy and national security issues, and his campaign has highlighted his service in Vietnam.
“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,” Clark said.
(AFP)
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“Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” he said.
with all due respect General, your head is full of shit if you think Barack Obama has more experience than John McCain on ANY subject. unless you mean being a Marxist asshat, then yes Obama has more experience.
oh and then after that he comes out with these comments.
“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,” Clark said.
yeah hes a hero to you yet you consider his service to be “just riding around in a fighter plane”?
June 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pmBTW
The pic above is at a Kos Convention
June 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pmwhat a stain…
“The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general officer) corps,” exclaims one colonel, who has had occasion to observe Clark in action, citing, among other examples, his command of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood from 1992 to 1994.
While Clark’s official Pentagon biography proclaims his triumph in “transitioning the Division into a rapidly deployable force” this officer describes the “1st Horse Division” as “easily the worst division I have ever seen in 25 years of doing this stuff.”
Such strong reactions are common. A major in the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado when Clark was in command there in the early 1980s described him as a man who “regards each and every one of his subordinates as a potential threat to his career”.
entire article here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/clark.html
here is a good article about the General, since he nearly started WWIII with the Russians over klintons war.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=945
also
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras12.html
He is an ass.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pmRich coming from the queer bitch who thought it was a good idea to stop death squads and ethnic clensers by droping bombs from 10,000 feet.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pmWes Clark….polishing his nose in Obamas ass hoping for a cabinet position.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm“Clark said Obama had shown talent as a communicator.”
June 29th, 2008 at 3:36 pmA communicator who when he mumbles,stumbles or repeats himself has a real tendency to be lying.
Wes Clark: the great American SELLOUT!
June 29th, 2008 at 3:37 pmThe post turtle was a community organizer, I guess he worked in an executive community. Comrade Obama gives shame to gravitas. Who would ever hire a post turtle to do an important job.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pmCOMMUNICATION SKILLS?????? look where that got us,, clinton and carter,, CLARK has no room to talk, he lead fm the rear against a non-existent enemy..mccain did more leadership work fm his small POW cell than clark did fm his vast office or odumba did in “chicago politics”..
June 29th, 2008 at 3:40 pmAmen (and amen et al)
From what I understand, McCain was a leader for the other POWs while in the camp … and didn’t he refuse early release in order to stay with the men?
June 29th, 2008 at 3:42 pm“Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,”
C’mon Bambi. The dipshit needs to chew those words for a few months.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pmPlease.
Clark for VP.
I don’t get the comment regarding him being not half white, did someone from Obama’s camp say something about that?
June 29th, 2008 at 4:10 pmNow that’s audacity, to blatantly misrepresent McCain’s substantial leadership experience.
I think it’s only fair for Steve to call Kosovo “Klinton’s War,” after all, the dems always dismiss Iraq as “Bush’s War.” Eye for an eye. About Kosovo, though it wasn’t the fault of our brave troops, I believe Operation Allied Force was completely unnecessary. We bombed the wrong people; the very Serbs who helped us fight the Nazis, and even rescue downed Allied airmen during WWII! Can anyone tell me how Yugoslavia was a threat to our national interests? Even when they were communist, they didn’t align with the USSR! They could very well have served as a bulwark against militant Islam, had we not bombed them. Most cynically, I would be so bold as to say that Clinton was “wagging the dog” during the Lewinsky Scandal. Had he bombed Al Qaeda during that time, he would probably have the “legacy” he seeks. But because of our intervention on behalf of the Kosovars, Islam is creeping up from the Balkans. By the way, we had Kosovar in my 10th Grade gym class, named Muhammad, who also lived in New Orleans before coming to Richmond. Real fucking douchebag.
Clinton’s & Clark’s legacy: not addressing the growing threat of Islam. Oh and we still have “peace keepers” in the Balkans. Bring the troops home!
June 29th, 2008 at 4:12 pmThese Fucktards just won’t go away (wishfull thinking) It is so very frustrating to hear listen and read this shit that I just would like to bitch slap them till they turn into blubbering idiots.. Hey wait a minute….
June 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pmWhat a POS this ass has become. SOB has never won an election and the MSM gives him a platform everytime he opens his pie hole.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pmI don’t get the comment regarding him being not half white, did someone from Obama’s camp say something about that?
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Pretty sure ‘it’ went under the bus a few months back with his ‘white’ Grandmother …
I am certain others here can expand on that as well.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm@Steve, great links thanks!!
Effing lunatics! The endless factoids they repeat prove the liberal mind lacks the most basic processing skills. My respect for chimpanzees grows every single time I hear libtards open their unintelligible pie holes.
The only credentials Obama displays are those from the Alinsky school of radical agitators, to even suggest he is somehow more experienced than McCain on Defense demonstrates again his innate poor judgement.
Only incompetent fools and failures like Clark are drawn to Obama; real battle hardened military men know bullshit when they hear and see it.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:42 pmRetired US General Wesley Clark’s qualifications for president.
Well I guess that only commanding a PT boat and having that PT boat shot out from under you and sunk won’t qualifiy you for being president either?
JFK you DID NOT qualify for the office.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pmHey Wastely
June 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pmYou like to brag what a great job you did in Bosnia, but we’re still there defending muslims who are now working against us. I remember when you and Cliton almost caused WWIII by bombing up the Chinese Embassy! Wastely Clark is an idiot who said the Surge strategy in Iraq would not work, and we were doomed to fail 2 years ago. Well Wastely you were wrong then and wrong now!
Hey Wastely
June 29th, 2008 at 5:43 pmYou like to brag what a great job you did in Bosnia, but we’re still there defending muslims who are now working against us. I remember when you and Clinton almost caused WWIII by bombing up the Chinese Embassy! Wastely Clark is an idiot who said the Surge strategy in Iraq would not work, and we were doomed to fail 2 years ago. Well Wastely you were wrong then and wrong now!
Yeah, I remember ol General Weasely Cluck.
A real go getter, leads from the front, won the Kosovo War without a single American casualty.
If I am mistaken on any of the above, please correct me, but that is what I’ve heard from the left about this POTUS wannabe.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:57 pmYou said it just right. Thanks.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pmMcCain is a naval academy & naval war college grad. Both teach leadership among other things. Osama went to 20 years of “I hate America” sermons. Big difference.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:07 pmMcCain also took a so-so squadron made major improvements.
Osama took a real estate payoff. What would he take as president? And from whom?
Wes has his lips on the Democratic ass, hoping for some reward.
McCain is one of the great heroes of my life. I served my entire 4 year enlistment while John was in the Hanoi Hilton.
I made several trips to VN during that time. John made his trips from his cell to the beating room.
The last time we had a commander in chief as qualified was probably Ike.
Osama might make dismal jimmy look good.
The mighty general wouldn’t make a pimple on a jarheads ass.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:42 pmHe just keeps coming back like that girlyman Dashchel.
I was watching this guy when he said it. Even Bob Scheiffer was incredulous. I think his ego was talking–in his mind, he was comparing his role in the military as CINC of NATO versus McCain as a Commander or Captain in the Navy or whatever he was. Obama was a sort of social worker before he got elected to the state senate and US Senate. Not exactly executive positions.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:32 pmRemember when the tried and true Left-of-Liberal straw man
June 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pmsmear was the so called ‘chicken hawk’? Bush was declared unfit to send troops into harms way because he never saw combat. Even though this was a a straw man argument, it gained a lot of traction with the Ultra-Liberal Main Stream Media. It was like saying if you have never been a policeman, you have no right to expect them to catch criminals, or if you have never been a fireman, you have no right to ask a firefighter to run into a burning building to rescue a loved one. Anyhow, now the newest mantra is that since no one would dare call Lt Col Johnny McCain a ‘chicken hawk’, they feel the need to demean his service
as a pretext to declare him unqualified to be President.
Pure unadulterated shutzpa. Apparently, there is no end to the cravass of slime that these Ultra-Liberals will stoop.
Why are “has beens” and “never will bes” so vocal? What a bunch of dumb asses Obuma has in his employ. Just think how his cabinet would look, and we can expect spear dancing on the Whitehouse (oops, Blackhouse) front lawn.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:13 pmMcain is not perfect, but he has much more experience thatn obama.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:30 amWhen Wesley Clark was in the Pentagon he had a reputation as the biggest ass-kissing waste of life in the whole place.
Clark never gave a shit about anyone or anything other than himself. He’d scew his own mother if it would advance his career.
I got no respect for this ass-licker. Compared to McCain, Clark is a pussy.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:31 amWes Clark: a man for no season. Will this man’s 15 minutes ever be up? Go back to Arkansas Wes and peddle your vituperations elsewhere.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:01 amHow do ignorant doofuses like Clark, Batiste and Sanchez become generals?
In particular how do bumblers like Sanchez become the top guy in Iraqs critical, immediate post liberation phase and how does a fool like Batiste run (and lose control) of things in a crucial province like Diyala?
Why did it take 3 years to get competent leaders like Patraeus and Odierno in charge in Iraq?
Finally, why doea a poofda like Clark carry any credibility for news organizations?
June 30th, 2008 at 6:02 amdeathstar… most of those generals u mentioned got their stars fm clinton…col. and gens. get their appointments fm the POFUS.. it was they who took down our military in the 90’s and it took the likes of rummy to rebuild it… if u will remember in the 2000 elecetion bore gore bragged about eliminating 250.000 troops and there were no active army divisions that met readiness requirements..hence a weak military to go into the wars in afghanistan and iraq..that is why so many guard and reserve units were called and the continued reliance on the clintons use of haliburton..
June 30th, 2008 at 7:05 amCould this guy BE any more embarrassing? What an ass.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:35 amWesley ‘Fucktard’ Clark is a disgrace to the US military. This asshole needs to be bitch-slapped by some Marines. To even try to denigrate McCain’s leadership experience only emphasizes the extreme lack of leadership of Obamination. Clark is truly an egotistical moron who should just STFU! The lack of substance and character from these assholes on the left is frightening.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:42 amThis man can’t find his ass in the dark with a flashlight.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:24 amWho the fuck is he. Trying to get a job as Obama’s shine boy. Little does he know, Obama is not going to the whitehouse. He is headed for the shit house.
That he would say what he said is just an anathema to me. I cannot believe he would lower himself by saying what he did. Why? WTF man? Have you lost your mind?
June 30th, 2008 at 8:44 amOh, I see how it is …
I’m not supposed to say ‘dirty words’ on your site `cause your mom reads it …
But you come in here and fucking cuss like a fucking soldier and …
Oh, wait … You ARE a soldier … heh!
Love you man!
June 30th, 2008 at 1:25 pmWes Clarks finest moment was as a gay heart throb on the cover of a queer magazine.
http://www.militarycorruption.com/wesleyclark3.htm
June 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pmWesley Clark should be ignored. He was a pathetically poor general. He is an even worse politician, one who is willing to say anything.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:36 pmI feel saddened for the poor Soldiers this asswipe apparently built his career upon. There are 2 types of leaders I always referred to when I was a Chief prior to crossing to the “darkside”:
1. Ladder builders
2. Ladder climbers
Given the Generals repeated verbal flatulence I would day that there were many Soldiers that served as the rungs of this POS’s ladder!
June 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pmSlick Willie, Weasley Clarke, and Huckabee: Arkansas hasn’t had a good streak, have they?
June 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pmAt our site, we confess to being mystified. I don’t see indignation as a successful campaign strategy. On the other hand, in 1988 I did not see the Pledge of Allegiance as a likely strategy either.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:39 amI find it ironic that a man who violated the Posse Comitatus Act and attacked women and children with military hardware (Waco), a Leader who bombed the Chinese Embassy in Kosovo, a man who ordered a British Colonel to shoot the Russians at an airport and was fired for this action as NATO Commander, would have the gall to even mention McCain’s Leadership.
These facts should be front and center yet I have not heard one “newsy” even hint to them.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:29 amI suppose riding around in a PT boat does not qualify a person either.
Actually I would vote for a person who is willing to die for his country far sooner than I would vote for a man willing to throw his grandma under the bus.
…but that’s just me.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:52 amDoofus works for Obama as advisor. None of the lead-ins on the news mention this. Yeah, Obama has real executive experience. According to sources, he spent exactly 144 present and accounted for in the Senate. Wow, almost a half a year!
July 1st, 2008 at 8:21 am