Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Shastafarian
Link? Or should we just take your word for it?
What do you think? :lol
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Shastafarian
Link? Or should we just take your word for it?
It appears to me he was stating an opinion...you want a link to his brain?
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Yonivore
It appears to me he was stating an opinion...you want a link to his brain?
I was asking for a link to the quote he posted. Is that him channeling Wes Clark or something?
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Shastafarian
I was asking for a link to the quote he posted. Is that him channeling Wes Clark or something?
Sorry, the quote didn't make it to your post.
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Shastafarian
I was asking for a link to the quote he posted. Is that him channeling Wes Clark or something?
Do you ever use google?
It's this easy...
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Originally Posted by article from first google return, you should try it
WHEN WILL Wesley Clark stop telling tall tales? In the current issue of Newsweek, Howard Fineman reports Clark told Colorado Gov. Bill Owens and University of Denver president Mark Holtzman that "I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls."
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
whottt
In answer to your question, any endorsement Kerry got by military leaders probably carried no weight with me, because I didn't like Kerry. And I didn't want us to cut and run in Iraq.
Cut and run, another conservative talk radio term. Another example of repeating a term that he heard on conservative radio. Where is the poll about who repeats conservative talk radio. Exhibit 1: Whottt.
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
I can't even believe this is actually being discussed...Clark had no stated political affiliation prior to 2002 or so and he initially was extremely supportive of the Bush Admin. He wasn't critical of the Iraq War initially either although he did become one of the first to criticize it...as he was launching his Presidential Campaign, as a Democrat. He couldn't launch his Presidential Candidacy as a Republican in 2003.
As for now...he wasn't an Obama supporter, he was a Clinton supporter who threw his support to Obama after Hillary was defeated.
Furrthermore, he got snubbed by Obama and the Democrats at the DNC, after doing that.
This guy doesn't have any great admiration for McCain...but I am certain he didn't like his political career getting axed by Obama and the Democrats.
This guy is a moderate...he became a Democrat as a matter of convenience.
I don't know that he is all of a sudden going to support McCain...but I bet you don't hear another word out of him about Obama for the rest of this election.
Probably won't be a big deal in the long run...he seemed pretty popular among the Democratic Candidated initially...but he has a habit of being overshadowed.
That said...this guy is probably one of the better strategic military minds available to either candidate...
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
His favorite Presidents are Reagan, Truman and Eisenhower...if Truman were around today he'd be a Republican.
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Yonivore
I didn't feel like looking for it. Sue me.
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
Shastafarian
I didn't feel like looking for it. Sue me.
Nah, I just won't feel compelled to hold your hand through threads...you're on your own.
Re: 300 Retired Generals And Admirals Endorse John McCain For President
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Originally Posted by
whottt
I don't know that he is all of a sudden going to support McCain...but I bet you don't hear another word out of him about Obama for the rest of this election.
You lose.
Wesley Clark thrills crowds at Harbor Docks
The first sign something was up at Harbor Docks was the westbound cars queuing up to turn at the median cut on U.S. 98.
Some of them, instead of heading into the restaurant’s crowded parking lot Tuesday morning, made a U-turn and headed off to find parking nearby. But despite the obstacles, about 200 people showed up at the restaurant to attend Gen. Wesley Clark’s campaign stop for Barack Obama.
“I attend his church in Little Rock,” Arkansas transplant Peggy Goodspeed told The Log. “In a swimsuit, he looks just like a teenager — he swims every day.”
The rally drew a mix of white and black, old and young, veterans and civilians, women in business pantsuits, men in blazers and retirees in sweatshirts and sandals. Some sported Veterans for Obama buttons, while a few wore a Draft Wesley Clark shirt or button from 2004.
“I’m here to see Wes Clark,” David Smith, in one of the Clark shirts, said. “And because of the fact I’m supporting Obama.”
“It’s wonderful,” Shirley Samuel, a black woman in the audience, said of Obama’s candidacy. “It’s a blessing.”
Before and during breakfast, the crowd sipped coffee, nibbled food, discussed campaign tactics and the merits of bumper stickers and enjoyed the pleasure of being among people on the same political side.
“It’s embarrassing sitting on the beach exchanging views,” Goodspeed said. “I sit thinking ‘How can you think like that?’”
One man told Clark that this would be the first year he’d voted for a Democrat since Harry Truman in 1948.
Camille Morgan, the mother of Harbor Docks owner Charles Morgan, said the crowd that morning was a good start to changing local politics: “All those people who are afraid to say they’re for Obama, now they’ll look around and see all these other people (support Obama).”
Charles Morgan and Clark made the same point repeatedly: Talk about your politics, flaunt your political signs and bumper stickers and neighbors and coworkers will become more willing to show they agree.
“I don’t think Okaloosa is the reddest county in Florida any more,” Justin Ford, an Iraq and Kosovo veteran working with the local Obama campaign told the crowd, generating applause in response.
Clark drew plenty of applause, whether he was discussing veterans’ problems, questioning Sarah Palin’s qualifications or criticizing
Bush’s health insurance proposals and his military decisions . The only disagreement from the audience was when Clark said how much he respected John McCain’s war record: “We all like John McCain.”
“No we don’t!” someone yelled back.
Clark said respecting McCain didn’t mean supporting his candidacy: “He’s just not my top pick for president — and in this race, you’re either number one or number bottom.”
http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/har...ocks_turn.html
