Clark critiques McCain's military record, Obama responds | Thread profile

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/...r/mccain_cl ark Some news frolm the campaign trail

Obama is going to be playing a tricky game. His surrogates will go and offend while he professes to not know what they were going to do or then say they shouldn't be doing it. Politics.

Theres no pleasing some people.

Quote: Originally Posted by LT_Ryguy Well that's great... too bad Clark isn't running against McCain. So actually, no merit on his point, only whine. Yes, lots of merit.

Quote: Originally Posted by Omega18 Actually if you look at Clark actually said its quite consistent. The basic point is some people are overrating McCain's military experience in terms of how it qualifies him for the position of President, particularly in terms of command experience. Basically commanding a fighter squadron doesn't ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vladimir Rustov Lt. George W."I am young and irresponsible" Bush reporting for duty! >:-( Oh wait...... Well actually I posted that to so that I could post "It doesn't matter who served or how," which was Kerry's typical refrain until he was the one running for office. Its kinda ...

Even if we accepted Omega18's spinning and damage control, its still proof how much a not very good speaker Clark is, in that he picked rather passive-aggressive words, that make it sound what it is, an attack on McCain's war record. Thus in the same vein, I shall say: from what I hear that only just makes him about the same caliber as a speaker as he was a general though.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lokar Well actually I posted that to so that I could post "It doesn't matter who served or how," which was Kerry's typical refrain until he was the one running for office. Its kinda spooky (and Tycho and GA Reese can proabably back me up on this one) but in the 04 primary the Boston-NH market was pretty ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vladimir Rustov Well actually I posted that so I could post "At least he went". But yeah Ive never considered military service to the end-all of presidential virtues. As long as you surrounds yourself with capable advisors and actually listens to them, you dont have to have +30 years in the Armed ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Omega18 Actually if you look at Clark actually said its quite consistent. The basic point is some people are overrating McCain's military experience in terms of how it qualifies him for the position of President, particularly in terms of command experience. Basically commanding a fighter squadron doesn't ...