Thanks for confessing the crushes. I had one on Spin and Marty at the same time. Remember them?

And I am still super pissed with Oprah, America’s trusted teacher, who enabled Bush to have his armchair appeal in 2000. Well, Obama will take care of Oprah’s needs I am sure. Oprah’s trusted viewers… not the liberals or those economically struggling.

In no way has General Clark questioned the honorable service or the patriotism of Captain McCain. Rather, he questioned the judgment of Senator McCain who has foolishly endorsed the failed neo-conservative foreign policy of the Bush administration.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..665/544457

If Obama keeps triangulating to find that mythical center (more accurately, a bull’s eye) that his so-called advisers tell him he should be in, he’ll end up like Charlie Brown trying to kick Republican Lucy’s football. He’ll miss it every time, end up on his backside and keep coming back for more. Obama is smarter than that. He should stop playing the other team’s game and play his own. His apparent ability and willingness to do that is why he’s the nominee and not Hillary. For more, see today’s Glenzilla.

As for McCain, becoming a skilled Naval Aviator is a considerable achievement. Using a military aircraft as a weapon, not just flying it, is tough business. And even the bravest aviator needs a stout pair of brown corduroy trousers to make night carrier landings (the target is a 30×100 foot section of pitching, rolling and yawing deck, sixty feet above inhospitable waves). Crashing his aircraft in combat goes with the territory. (Losing four more, including one en route to an Army-Navy football game in Phila. is another matter.)

But apart from longterm PTSD, I’m more worried about what McCain learned in order to endure five years of POW treatment. He learned to tolerate anything. He learned to move in and out of a fantasy world whenever the real one was too brutal. If he just “stayed the course”, kept his head down and took it night after night, he’d survive. He need never change or give in; he couldn’t, it could lead to defoulment or dishonor. That’s a lot of baggage that would come into play in the tense, daily decision making that is the President’s lot.

I’m also worried about what McCain didn’t learn, which is the heart of General Clark’s comment and why he was qualified to make it. He never learned to command multiple forces with different missions. He never learned to lead large groups of men and women from diverse backgrounds, with ambitions, talent and failings as great as his own. As a Navy Congressional liaison, he did learn to find Congressmen the best drinks away from home, and how to get them home when they’d had too many. He learned to disobey policy and encourage his Congressmen to fund weapons programs his President and Navy Secretary didn’t want.

More importantly, John McCain never learned to distinguish between missions that were worth putting men on the line for, and which were worth losing his stars over in order to say, “No, sir” to his President. He never learned that restraint is as potent a weapon as a missile or a “fuck you”.

Is there anyone that did not think this was goig to happen step-by-step.

I do not think the people who were saying Clinton and Obama are essentially the same were smoking crack – its all in the votes and speeches.

I think people forgot during the whole fight between Cliton and Obama. Both very similar, same votes, same run toward the middle. With Obama you perhaps have less of an outsider (but perhaps easier to control by the power brokers due to his relative inexperience) and with Cliton more of an insider (but perhaps harder to control due to a bit more experience – but again she is likely already bought into the DLC, etc, etc, etc).

The lies are supposed to be fore the new supposed “8 minute” voter. Those who read and study really should not be fooled at this stage.

…in McCain’s first opening remarks, he said, well we all know that George McGovern knows little about national defense.

Let me tell you what I would say to John McCain: neither of us is an expert on national defense. It’s true that you went to one of the service academies but you were in the bottom of the class. It’s true that you were a pilot in Vietnam, that you were shot down and spent most of the war in prison and we all sympathize with that and honor you for your courage. But you and I both had these battle experiences, you as a Navy fighter plane, I as an army bomber. I am not going to criticize your war record and your knowledge of national security but I don’t want you criticizing mine either.

If I’d be allowed just one little dig at Senator McCain, since he gave me. I would say, ‘John, you were shot down early in the war and spent most of the time in prison. I flew 35 combat missions with a 10-man crew and brought them home safely every time.’

War Hero?
yes.
qualified to be president?
not so much.