Liberty Reborn

Wesley Clark is not as smart as he thinks he is. In an attempt to boost the standing of his man in the race (Barack Obama), Wesley Clark is taking shots at John McCain’s service in Vietnam:

WASHINGTON: With Senator Barack Obama planning to visit the Middle East and Europe in an apparent effort to burnish his foreign policy credentials, the credentials of his likely presidential rival, Senator John McCain, came under sharp attack Sunday from a man considered a possible Democratic vice presidential candidate.

The retired general Wesley Clark said McCain had not “held executive responsibility” and had not commanded troops in wartime.

McCain’s experience in Vietnam, where he was a prisoner of war for five years, has seemed at times almost to grant him invulnerability to criticism of his security background. But on Sunday he was assailed by a fellow military man, a highly decorated one who was once the NATO supreme commander.

McCain frequently points out that he led “the largest squadron in the U.S. Navy,” but Clark said on CBS television that that was not enough to support a claim to the presidency.

“He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall” as a wartime commander, the general said on CBS. Clark is mentioned as a possible Obama running mate, although he originally supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Ok … So McCain is not qualified because he has not ordered “bombs to fall”? Well what about Obama? Bob Schieffer went there and caught Clark in his own words and then had to tap dance around it, realizing that Obama had no such experience either.

When Schieffer then asked what executive responsibility Obama had held - the Democrat’s résumé includes work as a community organizer in Chicago and eight years in the Illinois legislature - Clark said that Obama was running on the strength of his character and good judgment.

In other words, Obama doesn’t have the experience Clark decries McCain for not having!

Just remember, Wesley Clark is the same guy who praised John Kerry in 2004 – a man who slandered our troops after returning home from Vietnam. In 2004 Wesley Clark was for Kerry because, for one reason, he had been in Vietnam and against Bush because he never was called to go (not refused to go mind you). Now he’s flip flopped? Now he is against a man who served in Vietnam (and did a lot more than that if you ask me) and for a man that never set foot in the country during the war.

Is this not the Wesley Clark Barack Obama knew?

Please note: I am still not voting for John McCain in November however.

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