Obama Surrogate Wesley Clark Blasts McCain’s Military Service

Liberals have become so desperate to attack John McCain that they’ll stoop to any low.. even attacking his military service.

Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle.

Clark said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be president, calling him “untested and untried” on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And in saying so, he took a few swipes at McCain’s military service.

“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. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron,” Clark said.

“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”

Get that? According to Clark, John McCain’s military service, combined with his years in the Senate doesn’t qualify him to be commander-in-chief, but Barack Obama, who never served in the military, and has barely served in the Senate is somehow qualified? Give me a break.

UPDATE: Admiral Leighton “Snuffy” Smith, USN (Ret.) issued the following statement in response to Gen. Wesley Clark’s attack on John McCain’s military service:

“If Barack Obama wants to question John McCain’s service to his country, he should have the guts to do it himself and not hide behind his campaign surrogates. If he expects the American people to believe his pledges about a new kind of politics, Barack Obama has a responsibility to condemn these attacks.”

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Change you can believe in - if you also believe in the Tooth Fairy. Absolutely disgusting - but just the precursor to the real nastiness which will start up in about a month. Obama and his Democrats can’t run on their Carteresque proposals (and has anyone really thought through a “windfall profits tax” on oil? Its not like oil companies have to sell their oil in the United States…they’ll just sell their oil where there ain’t windfall profits taxes…if Obama wins, get ready for gas rationing ala’ Jimmy Carter!) so they are forced to make John McCain so odious that the American people will feel justified in given the White House to the manifestly unqualified Barack Obama.

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83 comments June 29th, 2008

Photo Ops are Better Than Experience?

Something to put a smile on the face of all GOPers - Wes Clark trying to explain why Hillary would make a better CinC than John McCain (via NRO’s The Corner):

In the national security business, the question is, do you have — when you have served in uniform, do you really have the relevant experience for making the decisions at the top that have to be made? Everybody admires John McCain’s service as a fighter pilot, his courage as a prisoner of war. There’s no issue there. He’s a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot — and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam — that doesn’t prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn’t give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues.

If you look at what Hillary Clinton has done during her time as the First Lady of the United States, her travel to 80 countries, her representing the us abroad, plus her years in the Senate, I think she’s the most experienced and capable person in the race, not only for representing am abroad, but for dealing with the tough issues of national security.

So, wandering around the world in the plush accomodations of the First Lady is better experience for CinC than 23 combat missions; showing extreme courage under the harshest of conditions for years; the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross; being commander of a squadron; working with Congress to fund new supercarriers and retiring as a Naval captain? Wes, if you say so, I guess it must be true…

Now, this works even better against Obama…

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28 comments March 2nd, 2008