Posted on 06/29/2008 8:26:53 PM PDT by FocusNexus
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Retired US General Wesley Clark on Sunday said Republican White House hopeful John McCain lacked executive experience to be president, in rare criticism of the Vietnam veteran's military service.
Clark told CBS television that McCain was a hero for enduring years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam "but he hasn't held executive responsibility.
"That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded -- that wasn't a wartime squadron. He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall."
Clark, former NATO supreme allied commander, said McCain's combat experience as a fighter pilot did not make him more qualified to be president than Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
"Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," he said.
Clark said Obama had shown good judgment and talent as a communicator, saying the US president's greatest authority came from the power to persuade.
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(The original source is AFP (Agence France-Presse), NOT related to AP.)
This is a replacement article to the article posted by BunnySlippers, which has to be pulled because the source of that one was AP.
I found this by AFP, not related to AP in the least.
Agence France Presse
http://www.afp.com/english/home/
People need to see how low Obama supports sink.
Hey Wes!
You lack POW experience!
How about you sit in lock up for the next 5 years?
This idiot has the nerve to bring up “command experience” when his guy isn’t even house broke!
“Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” he said.
I’ll take it over “community organizer” any day, Clark.
Weasely’s stupidity and arrogance ( a lethal combo !) is just unbelievable. This from a guy who was lucky his own subordinates never killed him ( they hated him).
McCain hasn’t held executive responsibility
Neither did Lincoln
Clark
Thank you. and thank you to Bunny slippers!
Yeah, but you forgot...Obama had ‘lock up” experience in his church with Rev Wright for 20 years. Uh, wait a minute, that would be torture for me...not Obama and the oh-so-sad-and -tragically downtrodden Michelle.
And how much exec responsibility does Obama have? Usually idiots don’t make general, but in this case Gen. Clark is an exception.
He needn’t have bothered pulling rank, since everyone had him pegged long ago as a no-class prick.
He wants VP. But he’ll settle for being in the cabinet
Clark is nothing but a ‘Rat political hack, and has been since he entered politics as the Clintonista candidate for president in ‘04.
Looks a bit too gay to be a retired General.
It would figure that the French media would publish something with this political slant.
The guy who almost started World War III?
From The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 1999:
“I’m not going to start the third world war for you,” General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo’s provincial capital.
Thank you Weasley! I’ve been really torn about November. YOU, you stupid moron, just swung my vote solidly into McCain’s column. Way to go maggot!!!
well he did get a Distinguished Service Medal for Waco.
While I really don’t like McCain, this type of thing makes me jump to his defense. I’m sure that’s true of most of us here.
Not sure...wouldn’t surprise me.
He is such a nasty little snot! He belongs to the goody two shoes fraternity in Animal House! Wasn’t that “Greg Marmalade “ who got shot by his own troops in Vietnam in the final notes in the Animal House flick ( MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIMES!)
And Obambi does?
I’m not so excited about McCain either - but this is ludicrous. If McCain’s experience is somehow not good enough (and I suppose that is arguable) what does that make Obama’s?
I recall the 2003 fall piece in the Washington Post - an opinion piece urging Clark to run entitled “Run Wes, Run!” Run he did, but absolutely no one noticed. I’d say he has earned himself a STFU!
YES!
the guy is so dumb...or as we used to say in Cleveland...”STOOOPID!”
Weaseley was getting a bit jealous since Merrill McSqueek was getting more press recently. Can’t let the AF (Retired too) get more publicity!!
From what I heard from an Army friend (an officer) they didn’t much like his wife either.
They had a rather not so nice name for her which I can’t post here.
Who’s Wes Clark? really
Wesley Clark: General Issues
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=57BD3313-A2BC-4D18-B875-C635B9F6E8FC
Aug. 2003
“THE GUY MUST HAVE A BEDROOM AT CNN,” my wife would joke. It seemed true, because at every hour of the day or night during the Iraq War, retired General Wesley K. Clark could be seen on the Cable News Network as a “military expert” criticizing the Bush Administration.”
Don’t be too hard on Mrs. Weasly....after all, she is married to the as@hole!
Obama has zero executive experience. He’s never run anything bigger than his own senate staff.
At least McCain had officer training. He also doesn’t have executive experience. I wish we had picked a candidate who DID have executive experience.
But McCain DOES have military experience, which Obama does not have. Nothing prevented Obama from joining the reserves, taking ROTC, or doing anything to suggest he had an interest in the military. And there really was no war to worry about when he was of age to join.
Wesley has executive military experience, enough to prove he should never be allowed anywhere NEAR a position of executive leadership.
He carries himself and moves like a man person with a feminists body.
He was fired for something, I remember another US General being interviewed at the White House and the question was, what did Clark Do. He hinted that it would be too embarrassing for the US military to talk about it.
Power to persuade what? The Islamist Immans preach hatred, and so did Rev. Wright. Is Obama affected by their rheteric? Is much of our problems a result a result of these teaching intitutions? Barrack promises big changes, and I don't hear him address it. He's in denial.
It disturbs me that Barrak lauds and wrote a book centered on a father, who deserted him, and not his mother who nurtured him and imo was most responsible for success.
Hmmmmm ..??
Somebody needs to find out the real reason Clinton FIRED THE GENERAL - I think it was when he was Nato Commander. It was one of those deals which the media would not expose .. but it definitely needs to be exposed!!
Consider the source: Wesley 'Dismissed For Cause' Clark.
ROFL I just HAD to steal that dorkfish image!
Isn’t Clark from Arkansas?
Ask anyone in the army - Wesley Clark was a pure political general who was hated by the real soldiers. A weasel who knew how to get to the top, but reviled by professional soldiers.
I would love to see “Chicken” Wesley hump with the 75th Ranger Infantry Regiment!
“Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I be the lone survivor.”
He is simply brown nosing his latest sugar daddy.
So, the perfumed prince speaks.
Why is being in the cabinet better than where he is in the closet?
I would think he would know the difference between a fighter aircraft and attack aircraft.
He must have never heard t “Fighter jocks make movies and attack pilots make history." The man is a disgrace.
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