As reported by Ben Smith at his Politico blog, retired General and Democratic attack dog Wesley Clark will not back down from his crazy rhetoric over Senator John McCain’s military service. It’s truly a sad sight to see Clark disrespect McCain over his perceived shortcomings in Senator McCain’s military experience as fighter pilot, POW, and squadron commander. Clark somehow believes that being the commander of the largest squadron in the Navy isn’t applicable military experience - hogwash.
I’m confused. Now, what is the rookie senator’s relevant experience? Whoops, I forgot, he doesn’t have any!
I wonder how does it make General Clark feel to know that Senator Obama’s spokesperson has denounced his inane rhetoric. Also, how does it make Clark feel to know that his absurd comments have motivated me and many others to donate more money to Senator McCain? I wonder if Clark is truly making these comments free of coordination with the Obama campaign. Regardless, as I emphasized before, his statements only bring clearer into focus Obama’s poor judgment by associating with anti-American rhetoric hate merchants like Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Michael Pfleger.
It also makes General Clark look like a major propaganda tool as Senator Obama moves farther and farther to the right on Iraq. Perhaps the retired general would enjoy reading The New Yorkers piece titled “Obama’s Iraq Problem” that shows that Obama is really just a flip-flopping politician on Iraq as his political needs change with the successes on the ground in Iraq.
General Clark, it appears to me that you are being used like a propaganda tool by the Democratic party as an attack dog against McCain. How does that make you feel?
Update:
Allahpundit over at Hot Air adds the following comments:
The more I re-read this and the transcript of what he said on Face the Nation, the more mystifying it is — not because it’s offensive or even controversial (although the insinuation that anyone who hasn’t “ordered the bombs to fall” doesn’t understand the gravity of war is mighty rich vis-a-vis a POW), but because it’s so lame. His point is simply that being bastinadoed by enemy agents won’t inculcate any finer appreciation for the nuances of geopolitical strategy. Er, true enough, except (a) the power of McCain’s Vietnam experience is in its testament to his character, not his mad foreign policy skillz, and (b) no one who supports a guy who cites a few weeks spent in Pakistan on a college trip as a serious policy credential should be raising the subject of executive qualifications with a straight face.
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