Barack Obama patriotism speech, Wesley Clark outrage

Keith olbermann comments on Barack Obama's patriotism speech and the outrage over Wesley Clark's attack on John Mccain's military and foreign policy experience.
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Wes Clark joined the growing ranks of troublesome Obama associates when he meowed that just "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" is not a qualification to be president. He made McCain sound like a drone aircraft.

This is not even about Obama. It's the old business of grunts resenting flyboys. Bob Dole made a crack long ago about patrician Poppy Bush flying over the infantry. And Clark, as Fred Kaplan writes in Slate, "was an Army infantry commander during the Vietnam War while McCain was a Navy aviator."

The McCain team ratcheted up the fight, trotting out an army of defenders on a conference call.

One was Col. Bud Day, McCain's fellow P.O.W. who appeared in a Swift boat ad sliming John Kerry in 2004. "The Swift Boat, quote, 'attacks' were simply revelation of the truth," he said.

Another renowned Marine grunt in Vietnam, Democratic Senator Jim Webb, chimed in on MSNBC, advising flyboy McCain to "calm down" on his promotion of his military service, saying we need to "get the politics out of the military."

Naturally, the words "calm down" caused the McCain camp to rev up.

When McCain zoomed in the New Hampshire polls in 2000, W.'s supporters insinuated that McCain's years in Vietcong dungeons, including two suicide attempts, left him with snakes in his head.

Now McCain is trying to magnify the words of Obama surrogates on Vietnam to tarnish his self-styled postpartisan rival as partisan. On the way to Colombia, he talked about Clark and said it was time for Obama to "cut him loose."

Yet McCain himself has joked: "It doesn't take a lot of talent to get shot down. I was able to intercept a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane."

Maybe instead of refighting the Vietnam War while we're still fighting the Iraq war, the candidates can figure out how to feed the world, find enough fuel for everyone and oh, yeah, catch that bin Laden fiend who's running around free
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/opinion/02dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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[Ellipser]

Watch for trouble in Detroit.

Obama's old whithouse boyfriend got himself a nice job there.

[Snowman374th]

Uh.. it was for nothing already !!

What you didn't know Cmon.!! That whole damn conflict was planned and it was bull shit..

Why didn't we attack Korea // Russia // China theyhave the same things and said they would use them.. Shit Americans are stupid..

[Realizalize]

get on your own witchhunt

[devotion510]

Obama was friends with a terrorist his middle name is Hussein and he wants us out a Iraq hmmm.... i hope he doesn't when because if he takes us out of Iraq every American death would have been for nothing

[ntf284]

Man, I hate Olbermann. So much.

[goblai67]

THE US PLANS TO STATION DIPLOMATS IN IRAN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1979.

THEY ACCUSED OBAMA AND COPY HIS POLICIE.

ISRAEL IS TALKING TO HAMAS,SIRIA.

OBAMA SAID HE WILL BOMBE ALQUAI DA CHIEF IN PAKISTAN. Then he was treated as inexperienced. Few months ago GEOGE BUSH JUST DID THAT.

OBAMA WAS RIGHT. HE IS RIGHT

[billrah]

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When is the general public going to come to the realization that

Sen. Obama's style of speaking and writing is to state arguments

on at least two sides of the issue he is addressing.

He then emphasizes the view he wants to push at any given time,

for any given audience. Whether it's race, patriotism, his

associates, NAFTA, NAU, Iraq, faith, clinging to guns/religion,

Israel/Palestine, et al.

[billrah]

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The Rev. Wright issue is a perfect example. In his race speech he stated he was unaware of the preachers

deplorable statements, but couldn't disown him.

Within a month when Wright continued repeating the same statements

he found himself ready to disown him, but also claimed he hadn't

known what was going on for the previous 20 years.

Eventually he leaves the church.

[billrah]

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Here is a definition of Audacity

noun: aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery (Example:

"He had the audacity to question my decision")

noun: fearless daring

It is Obama himself who is clearly Audacious.

[seans10]

No need to apologize, Bill. I'm the ass. I totally misunderstood you.