McCain Oversold Military/Security Experience - Wes Clark

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There is nothing wrong with questioning someone's qualifications to be President. That is what normally takes place during an election.

If Clark thinks McCain's military experience isn't as good of preparation for President as many people have been lead to believe, he has every write to express that. It's not like McCain doesn't have a platform to respond.

On a sidebar, I don't think the founders wanted only people from from one class to run for President. In a country of over 300 million working men and women why is it only candidates emerge who are Harvard or Yale alum and the son of a president, Senator or Admiral? Whoever said you have to be a billionaire to run for President as an independet, was right.
 
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the problem, oklavol, is that in 2004 and 2008 Wes Clark touted his own military experience as qualification. In 2004, after dropping from the nomination race, he praised Kerry's service as qualification to be President.

you'd think that Clark is smart enough to realize that his comments aren't made in a vacuum.
 
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MG1968 said:
the problem, oklavol, is that in 2004 and 2008 Wes Clark touted his own military experience as qualification. In 2004, after dropping from the nomination race, he praised Kerry's service as qualification to be President.

you'd think that Clark is smart enough to realize that his comments aren't made in a vacuum.
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Clark was a General where McCain left the Navy because he thought he would never make Full Admiral. I think his point was McCain never held any high leadership position in the military, like General, Admiral, etc.
 
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oklavol said:
Clark was a General where McCain left the Navy because he thought he would never make Full Admiral. I think his point was McCain never held any high leadership position in the military, like General, Admiral, etc.
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and Kerry was the commander of a swift boat, plus he was in Vietnam for what, 4 months?
 
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oklavol said:
There is nothing wrong with questioning someone's qualifications to be President. That is what normally takes place during an election.

If Clark thinks McCain's military experience isn't as good of preparation for President as many people have been lead to believe, he has every write to express that. It's not like McCain doesn't have a platform to respond.
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He certainly has the right to question McCain's experience. The problems here are:

1. His wording is suspect (the he rode in a plane, etc.). It gives the impression that the experience was not a big deal.

2. His logic is questionable. He's making an argument that Obama is equally or more qualified from a military/foreign policy decision making perspective because he (Obama) was against the Iraq war. Clark is saying that single decision outweighs McCain's years in the military, his military upbringing and his years in the Senate dealing with the military and foreign affairs. The notion is absurd. It is a pure political play. Elsewhere in this thread there are comments that show how McCain's experiences are relevant to this aspect of being POTUS.

The fact that Clark supported Kerry and talked up his (Kerry's) military experience as relevant shows his commentary here is simply an attempt to knock McCain.
 
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oklavol said:
Clark was a General where McCain left the Navy because he thought he would never make Full Admiral. I think his point was McCain never held any high leadership position in the military, like General, Admiral, etc.
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What GEN Clark rarely mentions, if ever, is the fact that having Clinton as a classmate was a tremendous help to his career.
 
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