ttom500 wrote:You are missing the point. That being a military career indicates a early love of country and service to country. When did Obama get active in politics? His mid 30s? McCain was already commited to the country in his 20s. When he entered the military as a First Lt. Even four year prior to that....as he went thru the Academy......and knew that the Military service was at the end of the graduation.
Obama.....grads from college.....goes to Chicago......and? Aids the homeless and disadvantaged till he makes contact with the political of the far left. And they sponsor him for his run for office in his mid 30s.
McCain has nearly 14 extra years of service to the country by the time, Obama has his first real gov't position.
If Wes Clark was thinking.......he would realize only to well that Military people get often dealt a situation in thier career....like being taken prisoner....or being wounded......or being forced to surrender....that are of no cause of their own. That they cannot run from this situation. They cannot escape this situation. That what they do to the best of their ability is live with this situation.
What this shows Wes Clark's can attack McCain on the fact that his mach 1 A-4 could not out run a mach 3 SAM...shows how little Clark understands of the military. If Obama is using Wes Clark as his attack dog, the military knows this and the how McCain was shot down. He is using the wrong guy.
Clark stood by his comments late Monday night on MSNBC, apologizing only for detracting from the “bigger issues.”
“I honor John McCain’s character,” said Clark. “As I said in the show he’s been on of my heroes for a long time. He’s been over to my house. This is about the qualifications to be president. It is also about the nature of politics today that a comment can be taken out of context so much to create a hullabaloo.”
Clark stressed that when he initially suggested that McCain’s time in Vietnam did not — by itself — qualify him to be president, he was speaking as his own agent and not on behalf of Barack Obama’s campaign. In addition, he pointed some of the spotlight on the fact that one of McCain’s surrogates in batting back the criticism was Bud Day, a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth organization that McCain once criticized.
“I think language of this type and this part of the discussion shouldn’t be part of the campaign,” he said. “I reject the idea that you take something like this and Swift Boat it all out of proportion.”
Asked repeatedly by Abrams whether he was sorry for his statement, Clark did not offer an apology.
He even playfully hinted that his remark couldn’t have been all-too-controversial as it was first stated by CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer: “It was a great line,” he said, “I didn’t make it up. It was given to me by the interviewer.”But Clark’s appearance was clearly an effort to clarify the message that his earlier remark sent.
And in the process, he threw in some lines of support for his candidate of choice: Obama.“I think anybody who serves in uniform who serves their country in wartime and has gone through the hardships like John McCain should be honored for their character and courage,” said Clark. “I think people look for character and courage in their pres, but I don’t think you’ have to have been at war to have shown character and courage. I think you can see that in other candidates. I think you can see that in Barack Obama’s life.”
I’m hard pressed to imagine how Clark could have handled this much better.
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