Gen. Clark won't back off critique of McCain

Any one care to wager on how many people will say that Clark is lying for Obama?

One must respect the comment of the General, and understand the integrity of Obama other wise we are looking at the mirror image of same old politics.

Clark's right... does being locked up for 5 years mean you can run a country? No. Does it mean you understand the sacrifice of war, and may view it more realistically than Bush? Yes. Does it mean you have some sort of authority when it comes to war? Not really.

Does being 72, after being -- a 2-pack/day smoker for 30 years, in a cage with untreated wounds for 5 years, a multiple-time survivor of melanoma, a hotheaded combative man -- mean that with life expectancy for American Men being 72, we should be surprised you're still alive, and absolutely reject puting you in the most enormously stressful position in the world for four more years? YES.

This is just the beginning. Others will pop out of the woodwork and speak absolute truths that Obama can't speak. And, as the Repubs cry there wont be much they can do, because the info will be out there...just like their smears. They will get beat at their own game and cry foul the whole time, because they are spoiled little hypocritical scum that prey on the fears and basest instincts of people too rigid to understand the hand being offered them.--I would venture that Obama plays a mean game of chess.

Gen. Wesley Clark...2 thumbs!!

I consider myself a moderate liberal, and I don't have any big issues with Obama's policy positions. But I am having serious trouble getting on board with his leadership.

1. I read his book, and although the prospect of a President who can write a complete sentence may be refreshing after Bush, it made me uncomfortable to realize that every example story started with, "I remember back in 2005, when…." The book was written in 2006, and he was inaugurated in 2005 into the Senate. That leaves exactly 1 year of Federal government experience to draw upon in writing his credo. And in 2007 he started the usual process of ignoring his job to focus on the campaign. That makes 1-2 years experience! TOTAL! I don't know about you, but that freaks me out a little. We have 300 million people in this country and we can't field a guy with more than 2 years of experience?

2. Despite positioning himself as an outsider, he seems to be an incredibly fast learner in the worst political practices. He has run negative attacks; he has broken promises (e.g. campaign finance); he is willing to soften the church/state boundary to harvest a few votes from the religious right; he has even flirted with "swiftboating" his opponent – generally regarded as one of the most unpalatable and ugly tactics ever to disgrace American politics. If we have to suffer dirty politics, I prefer the pure elemental form, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

If I can't trust his "fresh point of view", and he doesn't have experience, what else is there? Breaking the race barrier is a plus, but I don't think it is enough, when we are talking about placing so much of our future in one man's hands. Besides, the notion of voting for or against someone because of race seems flatly un-American, and low-class.

McCain has other issues, outside the scope of this comment. I just wanted to say…the more I know Obama, the more worried I am about his likely victory. I hope my misgivings are unfounded.

This Clark fiasco tells me he is out of the running for Obama's veep. He is just a part of the political process where the candidate looks saintly and sanitary while vermin scurry around making dirty rotten innuendo and hissing snotty asides to the media who will print anything remotely slanderous or accusatory. it's the often used tactic of eroding someone's credibility even if it's not true. I'm just waiting for someone from Mccain's side to start doing the same thing. So far, McCain has been terrific in his desire to talk issues and facts and has been practicing good self-control. Personally, I'd love for him to go up and punch Clark in the nose.

Obama himself may have had nothing to do with Clark's comments but those around him certainly did. Clark is the 7th person using this tired old (pun intended) line. (McPeak and Rockefeller are a couple of others). Using his serve in Vietnam and being a POW against him makes no headway in winning votes. McCain is not the one going on national TV and around the country saying vote for me since I was a POW. The Dems are the ones who keep bringing it up to try to keep people from focusing on Obama's many faults.

Okay lets say Obama has no experience. Now lets give McCain 55 years experience and do a summation of his accomplishments over those 55 years, the sum total when spread over 55 years shows a man who gets little done,changes position like a professional politician and if he was in the public work force would have been fired for lack of performance many times from many jobs. heck myself as well as 100 of thousands of fellow Americans (male & female) have actual 16 months on the ground in war zones. Can we be president? I even have verifiable managerial experience in the wood products industry, Held a license as a contractor for most of my working life, raised three sons, and have the same 50kplus pension as McCain. Vote for me but I am not interested

my friends uncle did 25 years in prison and got out it didn't qualify him to be a dog catcher

McCain is so over the top asking Obama to denounce someone that is not part of his campaign. He didn't denounce Black who is a part of his advisor board. He's using this to gain political attention, he did have much to say about Black's comment. Sure everyone respect his service to his country. But Clark was right. because he was a P.O.W don't require it a part of his resume. If everyone thought that you have a lot well qualified candidate, who was a high ranking officer and actually fought on the field.

I'll say it once more John McCain is a man who has something to prove and its not in our best interest.

If I was Obama, I wouldn't comment on his question of denouncing Clark.

No one has questioned his psychology records, Because if our men and women are commitng sucide
when they come home and only spent one or two terms in Iraq. John McCain spent years as P.O.W years locked away and no one question his sanity. I wonder how he sleeps at night with out having flashbacks if he was tortured? That why he has a temper he can't control.

Here is an interesting article from Frank Keating, former Governor of Oklahoma, defending McCain against the statement made by Clark: