Let's Avoid Talking About the Issues
Retired General Wesley Clark said that the fact that Senator McCain spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war says nothing about his qualifications to be President. The McCain campaign piled on. Senator Obama, on a day he was emphasizing his patriotism, rejected or disavowed or strongly objected (or whatever the current verb is) to his supporter’s comments.
Clark’s analysis is absolutely true, though it says nothing about the relative merits of the two candidates. Shouldn’t McCain’s camp quietly acknowledge that and then go on to stress that McCain has decades of experience in the Senate as opposed to Obama’s few years?
Shouldn’t Obama, note that Clark was right, as far as it goes; and, then go on to say that what he stands for, globally, is better for us than McCain’s attempt to be the third term of GWB?
They both think we’re stupid.
3 comments:
I don't think there's really a nickel's worth of difference between what the two candidates will actually do once they're in office.
This race is all about style.
Yep. But if they did what they should, all hell would break loose.
Clark was correct in what he said. This was not swiftboating. It was not attacking McCain's service to his country. I am a bit disappointed that Obama felt the need to comment on this at all. Swaying with every breeze will break a candidate. I do not recommend it. No need to become incensed by every surrogate's comment, and no need to apologize for every surrogate's opinionated remark. Can't the candidates stay above the fray? What's wrong with that?
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