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I hear the teevee talking heads are in a tizzy this morning about a remark made by Gen. Wesley Clark in an interview. Gen. Clark said that riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is not a qualification to be president. He's absolutely right about that and that's not an attack. It's a simple statement of fact.

As Clark also said, we can certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war and as a nation we should be grateful to McCain for fighting in that war, just as we should cherish and honor the 58,000 who didn't get captured and died on the battlefields. But spending five years in a cage in the jungle, where McCain himself admits he received preferential treatment because of his father's status as an admiral, is hardly preparation for the kind of decisions that must be made by a president.

Furthermore, if we're to judge McCain by his military service, then shouldn't it be material that he graduated from the military academy at almost the very bottom of his class and he left the service and went into politics instead, when it became clear that he would never be promoted to admiral because his superiors judged he just didn't have what it takes to be a leader?

If he wasn't fit for a high ranking military command, why on earth should "his record" be used as a credential to prove his fitness for the highest office in our nation? If anything, it proves the opposite.

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Being a bad soldier does not qualify somebody for president.  McCain was so bad, that he was shot down and taken as a POW.  What a loser.  He can't even keep a plane in the air, how do you expect him to run a country?

We can certainly honor his service to his country, sitting in a cage while his fellow soldiers gave their lives for freedom, but we should also honor the 58,000 soldiers that managed to fight, rather than giving up and allowing themselves to be captured.  The enemy treated McCain with love and respect, while they tortured him, because his father was an admiral.  Hardly the kind of preparation that produces a good president.

Furthermore, did you know McCain is stupid like Bush?  McCain graduated low in his class, like Bush.  McCain went to an ivy league military academy, just like Bush, well, almost.  Do you really want another almost like Bush in office?

Although McCain left the service after figuring out a clever way to avoid combat during the war, (like Bush).  Had he stayed, we would have fired him because he was a worthless soldier that had no leadership skills and would never have been promoted.  Unable to hack the military, he left in disgrace and became a corrupt politician.

He wasn't fit to be in the military.  He wasn't fit to be a POW.  He is just like Bush, stupid, slow, low in his class, riding his fathers coattails, and a military failure.  His record speaks for itself.  He rolls over and lets the enemy capture him, then runs away from the military to hide in congress.  Is this the kind of "leader" we want running the country?

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Seuss said:
How much military experience does Obama have again?  How many years did Obama serve in the military, risking his life to protect the constitution?

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Seuss said:
How much military experience does Obama have again?  How many years did Obama serve in the military, risking his life to protect the constitution?

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wait, so the vietnam war was about protecting our constitution?

i'm not knocking mccain's service, but cmon now..

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zappaisgod said:
Just what, exactly, is Wesley Clark right about?

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zappaisgod said:
OK.  He's wrong.

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