The only thing I will admit is that you are deluded

Now thats gotta be the biggest case of projection I’ve seen in a while.

As to being a “pinko”….I was reluctant to call you a full fledged Chavez/Castro communist. But if that is your preferred choice, maybe you should change your moniker to Red Che Bear and cut the cutsie-pie image of a cuddly toy with full body diaper rash.

There is no war on terror. There is the War on the Poor and there is a War On The Constitution to bring it down. There has been no attempt to bring Osama bin Laden back to justice. We took out Saddam Hussein, who if you will remember, Regan sent Rumsfeld to bring arms to. America set Hussein up in power to chase out the Islamic Militants in the early 1970’s.

Do you see a real difference between the Dems and Reps? They are all millionaires and have no one but the Corporate Interests at heart.

The only thing I will admit is that you are deluded.

Republicans have had their chance now and @#%#^& things up. Admit that.

You are nearly right. As a life long Republican, I admit that, Pinky Bear.

Our Members of Congress were pigs at the earmark trough, which the Democrats continue to refuse to shut down. So, we hung them out to dry and Democrat pigs at the trough took their place. I admit it.

Our President reached across the aisle and created a federal school program, a federal prescription program, a campaign funding mess, a semi-amnesty for illegal aliens and lost his veto pen. He allowed government spending to soar like the Democrats were in charge. I admit it.

Then, we let the MSM and the New Hampshire wide open, no holds barred primary make John McCain our candidate. I admit it.

And the Democrats have unleashed Obama the messiah on the nation.

Obama is all smoke and no cigar. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

Obama is going to do the impossible: He is going to make me vote for McCain. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

Obama has begun Olympic level backpedalling on the war on terror, on government funding of faith based initiatives, on having face to face chats with the dictators, on energy policy, on cutting gas prices, and on and on. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

Obama has only the color of his skin going for him. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

You would vote for Obama because he is black. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

You know, if you were “Albino Bear” I could understand how you would see Obama through your rose colored lens. But you are Pinky Bear, so I guess you just see Obama as a pinko socialist. And you are right. Admit that, Pinky Bear.

The whole Swift Boating thing is a distraction to mask the fact that McSame has little to offer but a strong rhetoric and soundbites that signify nothing. Republicans have had their chance now and screwed things up. Admit that.

McCain is beating Obama by 20 points when voters are asked who they trust to defend the country more.

McCain is running ads about his military service that very effectively strengthen the public’s perception is this regard.

Now I dont know if any of you listen to talk radio, but i noticed on several shows today callers who were “retired military” who said, in essence, exactly what Weasely said, and Robert echoed above, that “McCains service is very honorable and it makes them so mad that anyone would denigrate it, BUUUUUUT when you get right dow to it, it is true that his service doesnt qualify him to be president”

I realize now they were Democrat seminar callers.

Weasely and Webbs comments were designed to do one thing and one thing only: sabotage the effectiveness of McCains ads and get them off the air.

#16, point taken, but if what you say is accurate, then the MSM sparked the controversy by lobbing the statement into news clips, e.g., “Clark Blasts McCain’s Military Service” (which has since been “revised” as “Clark Hits McCain’s Military Credentials“).

Now we have young Obama who completely escaped the draft and who determined to fight the war of “neighborhood activism” and ancient John McCain who got shot out of the air by barefoot peasants and tossed in the clink for a few years where nobody ever shot at him again. Isn’t that a great trade for a bit of solitary and a few broken bones?

But in the final analysis, isn’t a slick social worker ten times smarter than a playboy bad pilot? Really! Obama is unsullied. He cleverly aligned with the right posse to give him street cred in the hood. He flew under the radar and he never got shot down.

There is ancient McCain, all riddled with skin cancer and crippled up and full of “responsibility” bromides running against the BLACK Obama who is all “hope” and “change” and charges of racism.

We live in the age or “unknown” is exciting. Vote Obama! (Unless something with more glitter and less grounding flutters by and distracts us.)

Did he happen to mention what qualifies Barack Hussein Carter II, other than he’s black?

Funny, isn’t it?

When Clinton ran, military service (or lack thereof) didn’t matter.

When Kerry ran, it mattered again. In fact, that was the only thing he had to run on.

Now that Pussama’s running, it doesn’t matter again.

I don’t suppose asking for some consistency would be too much to ask?

We all know that Schieffer is from the Cronkite/Rather school of journalistic thought, in which it is OK to be “fake but accurate.”

Regards,
Peter H.

“When moderator Bob Schieffer interjected that ‘Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences, either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down’, Clark responded: ‘Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.’”

Columbia also has a link to a video of the interview, which you should watch. http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/attacking_mccains_military_rec.php

There is simply no way to watch this interview and come away with the impression that Clark made any “broadside attack” on McCain’s military service. He simply said that his service alone does not qualify him to be President, which is pretty hard to disagree with. Suggesting that John Kerry got his purple hearts for self-inflicted wounds, on the other hand . . .

Just as McCain’s key advisor Charlie Black was a total fool to discuss a terrorist attack in terms of how much it would help McCain’s campaign, Clark was a total fool to discuss McCain’s military service.

But Charlie Black did speak the truth. As much as none of us wants a terrorist attack on the United States, if it were to happen before the election it would certainly improve the chances for McCain’s election since the public perception is that he is more qualified to deal with national security. And Wesley Clark spoke the truth when he said that being shot down and held as a POW (in itsself) does not qualify McCain to be commander-in-chief. I inserted the “in itself” because in the context of the complete statement it was clear Clark was saying that.

I don’t think Clark “smeared” McCain or “distorted” his military record. And I don’t think Clark displayed any disrespect for McCain’s military service record.

There are so many really important issues at stake in this election and I think the Left was foolish to get so worked up over Charlie Black making a fool of himself and I think the Right is just as foolish to get so worked up over Wesley Clark making a fool of himself. Both extremes ought to focus their energies and passions on the important issues in an election that will likely set the course for America for much of the 21st Centory.

Just my opinion, girls.

Regards,
Peter H.

I am not a psychoanalyst, but I will play one on the web. Clark has an incredible resume. Valedictorian of his class at West Point, Rhodes scholar, a badly wounded Viet Nam soldier, and a rocket that rose through the ranks to become one of the Army’s 300 flag officers.

But when he got his first star, he also entered the arena of politics and promotion. What followed is murky. His relations with Clinton, Albright, Sec. of Def. Perry and Sec. of Def. Cohen and Gen. Hugh Shelton are the subject of great speculation.

He was retired/fired. He had his retirement salary and no housing, no staff, no driver, no command. His retirement pay is fine for middle class working stiffs, but it is not sufficient to keep him roaming the corridors of power and playing with the tall dogs.

His comments on McCain make perfect sense if you see them through his eyes. McCain fumbled his way through the academy, became a flyboy, got shot down, survived the torture, and so what? Even worse, in Clark’s view, McCain married a bunch of money and retired on it by becoming a Senator.

Clark really, really envies McCain’s prominence and financial security.

Clark is tight with Bill Clinton and he must know that the price of that relationship requires him to be a useful idiot. I do not think that Clark’s jabs at McCain were planned; I think that they came from his soul. He is desperate to become one of the high paid authorities who pontificate on small matters.

If you parse what Clark said McCain is lacking, you can pretty well see that Clark is thinking of himself. Clark ordered bombers to attack. Clark put his decisions on the line against political winds.

So, will this whole thing have an effect? Obama did one of his tepid disavowals by failing to call Clark by name. McCain has heard all of this before and he is not likely to try to prove his record. The MSM is sucking wind in hopes that they don’t have to act like grown-ups.

I suspect that this is a short, summer thunderstorm and will soon pass over. But, I will be interested in watching Wesley Clark’s march into oblivion. If Obama is elected, perhaps he will make him Ambassador to Sweden where he can try to influence Norway on the Nobel Awards.

Yet in Clark’s mind a junior senator with about a year of unremarkable experience in the US Senate before running for the highest office in the land is somehow “tested and tried”? Yeah, okay… Seems to me that McCain has not only been “tested and tried” but has a resume of experience far superior to his opponent. Btw, I say this as someone who would prefer other candidates but realistic enough to know that we’re stuck with one of these guys. I’ll take the one I think will do the better job and cause the least amount of damage.

But wait! There’s more now. Apparently McCain isn’t qualified due to missing out on the anti-war protests of the 60s & early 70s:

While Barack Obama was urging supporters not to devalue the military service of rival John McCain, an informal Obama adviser argued Monday that the former POW’s isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled the Arizona senator’s capacity as a war-time leader.

“Sadly, Sen. McCain was not available during those times, and I say that with all due respect to him,” said informal Obama adviser Rand Beers. “I think that the notion that the members of the Senate who were in the ground forces or who were ashore in Vietnam have a very different view of Vietnam and the cost that you described than John McCain does because he was in isolation essentially for many of those years and did not experience the turmoil here or the challenges that were involved for those of us who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.”

“So I think,” he continued, “to some extent his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited and I think it is reflected in some of the ways that he thinks about how U.S. forces might be committed to conflicts around the world.”