John McCain

And for much of this election year Senator McCain's military record has been off limits. That was until General Wesley Clark fired this broadside on Sunday talk show: Face the Nation.

WESLEY CLARK: He hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the navy that he commanded wasn't a wartime squadron. He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall.

INTERVIEWER: I'd have to say Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences either. Nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.

WESLEY CLARK: Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President.

MICHAEL ROWLAND: General Clark may himself be a war hero - he was shot four times during his stint in Vietnam, but he's again shown how great soldiers don't necessarily make great politicians.

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Wesley Clark
Born December 23, 1944 (1944-12-23) (age 63)

General Wesley Clark
Place of birth Chicago, Illinois
Defense Distinguished Service Medal (5)
Army Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Silver Star
Legion of Merit (4)
Bronze Star (2)
Purple Heart
French Ordre national du Mérite
German Merit Cross of the Federal Republic (Order of Merit)

Wesley Kanne Clark, KBE (born December 23, 1944) is a retired General of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Clark commanded Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000

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Calliope said:

2020 what a load of codswallop you go on with. I thought that when you started this thread it was to lecture the uneducated masses on what a nasty person John McCain is. And you have done your best. Post after post full of quotations and downloads trying to prove how smart you are and how blind everybody else. And now you are into conspiracy theories. Oswald for god's sake! You will be on the moonlandings next! And you are adding to your longwinded diatribes by quoting yourself. I think that you should get a life. This stuff is obviously all you do and it is now an obsession. You can't tolerate different viewpoints, and you can't put forward a rational point of view. Have you ever thought of making concise postings with just your thoughts and ideas not somebody elses? You could probably increase your postings to 20 a day.

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websman said:

Sarah Palin...Running mate. Nice choice! This is enough to seure my vote for John McCain.

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wayneL said:

And probably the Dem's greatest fear... a woman.

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websman said:

Sarah Palin...Running mate. Nice choice! This is enough to seure my vote for John McCain.

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websman said:

Ok...Ok...I admit it. Us Americans are hell bent on dominating the world and will destroy anyone who gets in our way. WE ARE EVIL!!! LOL

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2020hindsight said:

calliope
maybe you could be specific on what you disagree with

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She was the youngest person, and the first woman, to be elected governor of Alaska. Before becoming governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected and re-elected mayor of Wasilla for two three-year terms in 1996 and 1999.

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Wis. Lt. Gov.: Palin would be 'fragile' president
By TODD RICHMOND , Associated Press
Last update: August 29, 2008 - 6:21 PM

MADISON, Wis. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would make a "pretty fragile" president, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday as politicians trotted out their talking points on Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's surprise vice presidential pick.

In a conference call with reporters, Lawton, a Democrat, said she was taken aback by the choice.

The 44-year-old Palin has served as Alaska's governor for the last two years. Before that she was the mayor of Wasilla, a town of 6,500 about 30 miles north of Anchorage.

Lawton said Palin has absolutely no national security experience.

"If she becomes president of the United States of America, I think we would have someone who is pretty fragile at the helm," Lawton said.

Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus called Lawton's remark sexist. Palin's experience leading the largest state in the union and the Alaska National Guard is more than Democratic presidential Barack Obama has, Priebus said.

"She's, number one, an outsider, smart, articulate governor in a state that couldn't get further from Washington," he said. "She's a person who finally can break that glass ceiling. We're proud to nominate a female vice president."

Lawton told The Associated Press after the conference call she meant Palin's preparation to run the world's only superpower has been fragile.

"I meant her political background. She has no global experience. She's been mayor of a town half the size of DePere for two years and 18 months as governor. We are talking about a nation at war," Lawton said.

"This is a clear measure of John McCain's judgment of what one needs in preparation to be commander in chief."

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Palin's political experience might be questionable, but it's hard to quibble with her toughness.

She has spent summers fishing commercially with her part Yup'ik Eskimo husband, a business that once left her broken fingers. She has welcomed an investigation into whether she orchestrated the firing of a state trooper who went through a messy divorce with her sister.

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Priebus said Palin could give McCain a boost with Hillary Clinton supporters still bitter Obama beat her out for the Democratic presidential nomination.

"They like this independent maverick governor from Alaska," he said.

No, they don't, said Baldwin and Lawton, who were staunch Clinton backers in her primary run.

Palin supports a McCain agenda that's disrespectful to women by not granting them more health care, Lawton said.

Baldwin said McCain has misjudged those who rallied behind Clinton because they want to change.

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle called Palin's selection "a panic pick."

"This decision clearly had nothing to do with being prepared to govern and everything to do with the McCain campaign's dim political outlook," Doyle said in a statement.

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If McCain, who has had cancer four times, and turned 72 today, happens to die, do you REALLY want Sarah Palin, 44, a first-term governor of a state with fewer people than the Twin Cities, to lead the free world? She's probably a nice person, but how is this possibly a good pick???

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wayneL said:

And probably the Dem's greatest fear... a woman.

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Calliope said:

It seems to me that you regard yourself as the alpha person in this little pool

.. nutty conspiracy theory .

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I think Obama would have been better off picking Hillary as VP

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2020hindsight said:

1. hell I thought you were going to be specific, instead you come up with this bs

True to form. Anything that is critical of your beliefs is bs.

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Calliope said:

It seems to me that you regard yourself as the alpha person in this little pool and you have surrounded yourself with a little cheer squad, united by the common thread of belief in Obama's infallibility and a dislike of McCain. Your nutty conspiracy theory ideas have also taken root in this little group, and now it seems you are an apologist for Putin purely because he hates McCain.
As the alpha person you are wary of intruders and your critics often get a nasty spray. What happened to balance?

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