Confirmed: Wesley Clark is an idiot
If Gen. Wesley Clark had vice presidential aspirations, they went out the window yesterday when he opened his mouth and removed any lingering doubt about his idiocy. Here’s what he said in case you missed it doing something more important than watching windbags deflate on a Sunday morning:
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a key military adviser for Barack Obama, dismissed John McCain’s war record as a qualification for readiness to be president.
Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Clark downplayed the plane crash that led to McCain’s captivity during the Vietnam War, and said the squadron McCain commanded “wasn’t a wartime squadron.”
“He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility,” Clark said.
And Barack Obama’s “executive responsibility” would be…what exactly? Oh, yeah. Conducting leadership training seminars for ACORN shakedown artists!
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When asked by host Bob Schieffer how he came to describe McCain as “untested and untried,” Clark said it was “because in the matters of national security policy-making, it’s a matter of understanding risk. It’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions,” adding, “He hasn’t made the calls.”
When Schieffer noted Obama has not had wartime experiences, Clark said: “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
Well, it beats riding in…bumper cars and pretending to be Superman.
McQ adds:
A squadron command doesn’t become “executive experience” only if the squadron is in a combat situation. It is either an executive experience or it’s not executive experience whether at war or during peace.
Does commanding NATO not count as executive experience if NATO isn’t at war? And btw, does getting fired from his NATO command negate Clark’s claim to executive experience?
…if the willingness to fight for your country, put your life on the line and suffer the brutality McCain suffered as a POW doesn’t make the cut as far as qualifications go, how far below that does a “community organizer” show up on the list of non-qualifications?
Sister Toldjah weighs in:
Didn’t McQ get the memo? Every move Obama has ever made “took courage” so obviously becoming a community organizer was an act of sheer bravery unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, and therefore ranks high on the list of qualifications people should consider when choosing a president for this country.
Yes, and don’t forget the many, many heroic, personal “sacrifices” the Obamas have made and are willing to make to move in the White House. Why, Michelle Obama gave up her job. Don’t you dare question their patriotism.
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Rush had a field day today comparing Clark’s statements about the military qualifications of Kerry in 2004, and the analogous statements about McCain today.
It is amazing that he could say that Kerry’s contrived “rice in the butt” wounds were in any way comparable to 5.5 years of torture in the Hanoi Hilton, or that Kerry’s experience qualified him to be president, while McCain’s did not.
Even Bob Schieffer was sputtering in disbelief on that one.
Not exactly the brightest bulb on the tree.
Obama replied, no one should impune anyone’s patriotism. Lovely. Clever. He’s allying himself with John McCain. Basically saying, treat us the same, even if we’re not the same. This is like his first black church appearance after he quit Wright’s church. After listening to “blame whitey” for 20 years, what’s the first speech he gives? He says black men need to spend more time with their children. He makes expert political calculations when his bacon gets close to the fire. A grand opportunist. Watch him do it again and again before the election. He’s good. No doubt about that.
And I don’t know anything about Wesley Clark, but I was a bit weirded out by his picture on the cover of the gay mag The Advocate.
SoonerMarine said:
But he sure did do a good job tanking his chances for VP.
Un-real.
One thing no one can question is McCain’s wartime experience. ‘Rode in a plane’?
“…riding in a fighter plane…” RIDING in a fighter plane??!
General Clark must posess a certain amount of intelligence and knowledge of the military to have obtained his rank. It is tremendously disheartening to hear him make statements like this one…
My dad retired from the Navy after almost 30 years of service and many remarkable achievements. He would whole-heartedly agree with you, matty. When he retired, he left his rank behind with his medals and his flight log. While I understand the use of old titles for news commentators (to clarify why they are qualified to speak to a particular issue), I’m not sure they are commonly used in the civilian world.
Wasn’t Clark removed by Bill Clinton for dropping bombs on the wrong people while hiding under his desk ?
SoonerMarine
Well said. Your experience is part of the puzzle. It does not invalidate other anecdotal evidence that the man was a poor manager or leader before other people. Obviously we are talking about shades and gradations as well as a weakness to succumb to his worse instincts that may have grown over time. One reason that intelligent and hard working people, and I believe that Clark had those basic gifts, need to be careful not to act like a horse’s ass is that doing so deprives the society of the benefit of what they can contribute. In other words Clark screwed up first by getting a reputation as excessively manipulative and political (among an admittedly highly competitive group of officers) and second when in a combat leadership role in Bosnia and it cost him his job and made him ineligible for elective office. His frantic efforts to keep inserting himself into the public debate only compounds the problem. There is a reason that most retired senior officers sit on boards and play golf. Being a public person is with rare exceptions frowned upon as contrary to a warrior’s code in a democracy.
Although the MSM insists that Obama condemned Clark, Obama did nothing of the kind. In his Missouri speech, Obama never once mentioned Clark by name. And Obama refused to acknowledge that McCain was tortured in North VietNam. Instead, Obama said only that McCain suffered “physical torment”. Obama is a former editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review. He does not choose words by accident. When he used the word torment instead of torture, Obama had two motives. First he did not want to upset Jane Fonda, who then and now, denied that North VietNam tortured anyone. And second, he will not acknowledge any act of bravery by McCain. Obama believes that anti war demonstrators are the ultimate sign of bravery.
Let’s give General Clark some slack, after the precision surgical strike on the Chinese Embassy, there have been no recorded instances of a Chinese Embassy attacking anyone.