WASHINGTON – Retired Gen. Wesley Clark rejected suggestions he apologize Tuesday for saying John McCain’s medal-winning military service does not qualify him for the White House. Elaborating, Clark said a president must have judgment, not merely courage and character.
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful, said Clark’s comments had been inartful. McCain said Obama should go further than that. -AP
Oh, please tell me he’s kidding. Wesley Clark, for whom I voted in 2004, was perpetually overlooked in that Democratic primary when W. was at his most vulnerable and if anything, he was, from a military perspective, practically overqualified to be POTUS formerly having been Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Forces, and he is absolutely, positively, 100% correct in his assessment that the President who will be put in charge of the ‘Bush Cleanup’ must have more than ‘merely courage and character.’ Gods know those traits help, but I think the electorate is smart enough to realize that it takes more than that to be the leader of the free world.
Furthermore, McSame is demanding an apology and renunciation not from the man who spoke the words and who is currently in the enviable position of not being politically vulnerable, but from Obama in what appears to be an attempt to use the ‘inartful’ (which is not a word by the way) comment as an opportunity to either weaken his arsenal or as an excuse to keep a future negative campaign on the back burner. Clearly, the repercussions of the long Democratic primary are beginning to be felt as the Republicans steal strategies from their already-exhausted playbook and make them their own. Remember Samantha Powers. Remember James Carville. Remember 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. Thank you John McBush for showing us again that, to put it frankly, ‘you still got nothin’.’
[This article dedicated to Don S. Davis. He wasn’t a General, but he played one on TV! RIP]
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