Wes Clark on Verdict June 30, 2008

[WashMitt]

The only thing being a POW for 5 years in Vietnam prepares a person for is psychiatric counseling.

[PoliticalFix]

general wes clark was being very charitable i thought. our top military leaders are privy to the classified documents regarding john mccain's military service. they all know that mccain did hanoi jane style radio broadcasts, and 32 propaganda videos for the enemy, as he ratted out his buddies.

google - vietnam veterans against mccain

our military leaders are also deeply concerned about trusting mccain with our nuclear weapons, and for very good reasons.

watch this video:

watch?v=YYJPuKWZlVs

[TrustyShellback]

Wesley Clark is a mealymouthed politician. He is self-seeking, malicious, and petty. "Politician" has been defined as a person primarily interested in political office for selfish or other narrow and usually short-sighted reasons. Liberal Democrats exceed that definition in the most pejorative sense. The negative connotation implicit in Liberalism is the malicious intention to disparage or belittle people rather than debate an issue on its own merits. Liberals are mean-spirited and devious.

[Waage83]

You fail on so many lvl's

[sandbee82]

Gen Clark talks a lot about executive authority as a test to qualify for President for Sen John McCain. However, looking at Barack Obama he has absolutely no executive experience and a number of questionable past relationship that put into question his judgment. Gen. Clarke good double talk - just like a democrat!!!!!

[manyara02]

Far too many Americans have a "love affair" with McCain & can't see the forest for the trees. We NEED Gen. Clark, someone who's knowledgeable & well-read in military & executive matters to help open our eyes. During thirty-four years of service in the United States Army Wesley Clark rose to the rank of four-star general as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He's more than QUALIFIED to speak on McCain's xperience & lack, thereof.

[manyara02]

Go Wesley Clark! Tell the truth no matter who likes it! I'm former military & I'm not QUALIFIED to be president. I know many military personnel who are NOT ready to be president. Let's get REAL! If McCain wants to run on having so much xperience within the military & while in the Senate, his record is FAIR game. Nobody's disrespecting his service to America. We want the TRUTH & just like Kerry's record was scrutinized, so should McCain's. Keep up the good work, Gen. Clark!!!America NEEDS you!

[Ngooo]

The fact that the Obama campaign has rejected Clark's remarks makes me want to kill myself.

[akktive1]

Whats the big deal? BEING A POW doesn't make you qualified to be president! Makes sense. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and I could go on, never were POWs. SO GET OVER IT!

[hippieCy08]

Nominay....Obama did what is expected of him. Its just taking a page out of the Republican attack machine, let your surrogate speak freely, esp. if they are War vet with loads of credibility, instead of you attacking McSame directly.

[Nominay]

That's pure speculation on your part. Watch what Chuck Todd had to say about it at msnbc dot come and you'll think differently about that. Anyway, it looks weak and ineffective. It's Profiles in Bullshit.

[peep237]

What "shocks" me is how the Bush administration has looted the Treasury for his corporate friends, at the expense of the young men & women in the military, & has stripped this country's Constitution in order to do it.

Can't say that I'm "shocked" at hearing this truthful dig at McCain by a four-star general who finished first in his class at West Point. Where did you finish in your class, McCain?

[Awolf1977]

clark is a dumb ass....

[observer855]

ha!..you're actually attempting to say that Clark isn't intelligent? Go do us a favor and kill yourself.

[moejardines]

no shit, the valedictorian of West Point? 4 star general? went to oxford?

yeah, total dummy, ;-) LOL

[Nominay]

I am angry that the Obama campaign has thrown Clark under the bus saying that Clark was questioning McCain's patriotism. No, Clark was questioning McCain's qualifications in the context of McCain's military posturing. If I was Clark, I'd tell the Obama campaign to fuck off, you're on your own.

[observer855]

yep, between this, Obama's flip on campaign finance, and his Fisa vote - we are starting to see Obama's true character. Doesn't look good.

[Nominay]

The voters never get it right in the primaries, do they?

[hippieCy08]

who would've thang it.....a democrats with actual balls and a conviction in his words. Stand by them General Clark, you stated what many are thinking but 2 cowardly to say it. McCain despite his war record, is an incompetent dangerous warmonger clueless about how to run our country @ this dire time.

[emmjay701]

Amen to that, and it's not as if Clark made up this line by himself, he was just parroting what Bob Schieffer said to him in the first place.

[masville]

Great point about the out-of-context controversial line. General Clark has been criticized for bringing up the subject and for such offensive wording. But, they were Bob Schieffer's words. I think General Clark was just parroting in an attempt to respond to a specific question.

[sondano]

Exactly Jeffrey. There was nothing controversial in Clark's statement. Nada. He was 100% right. And none of those whiners could actually refute him and show that riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down qualifies someone to be president. This bruhaha can only happen in the country of oversensitive hypocrites who always pretend to be outraged over something. Only in America only in America. What a joke.

[jeffreymcneill]

It is a great line, getting shot down in a fighter plane does NOT make anyone qualified to be President.

Being a prisoner of war does not qualify anyone to be president.