{"id":526,"date":"2008-07-02T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-07-02T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:19:53","slug":"stupid-politics-entry-145386985974100-or-the-foot-in-mouth-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Politics, Entry 145,386,985,974,100, or The &quot;Foot in Mouth&quot; Award goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Stupid%20Politics%2C%20Entry%20145%2C386%2C985%2C974%2C100%2C%20or%20The%20%26quot%3BFoot%20in%20Mouth%26quot%3B%20Award%20goes%20to...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Obama adviser Gen. Wesley Clark, who Sunday made the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>&#8220;In the matters of national security policy making, it&#8217;s a matter of understanding risk. <strong>It&#8217;s a matter of gauging your opponents, and it&#8217;s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain&#8217;s never done any of that in his official positions.<\/strong><\/em><em> I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in Armed Forces as a prisoner of war. He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and he has traveled all over the world. <strong>But he hasn&#8217;t held executive responsibility.<\/strong> That large squadron in Air- in the Navy that he commanded, it wasn&#8217;t a wartime squadron. <strong>He hasn&#8217;t been there and ordered the bombs to fall.<\/strong> <strong>He hasn&#8217;t seen what it&#8217;s like when diplomats come in and say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know whether we&#8217;re going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it publicly.&#8217;<\/strong> He hasn&#8217;t made those calls, Bob.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">If Wesley Clark was the nominee going against McCain, this statement would be perfectly valid. But he&#8217;s not &#8211; it&#8217;s Barack Obama. While I don&#8217;t disagree that being shot down and held as a prisoner of war is a qualification for president, the statement, en toto, by a guy who believes Obama is qualified to be president is just stupid for many reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>But he hasn&#8217;t held executive responsibility.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Has Obama?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>It&#8217;s a matter of gauging your opponents, and it&#8217;s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain&#8217;s never done any of that in his official positions.<\/strong><\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Has Obama??<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>But he hasn&#8217;t held executive responsibility.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Has Obama???<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><strong>He hasn&#8217;t been there and ordered the bombs to fall.<\/strong> <strong>He hasn&#8217;t seen what it&#8217;s like when diplomats come in and say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know whether we&#8217;re going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it publicly.&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Stupid%20Politics%2C%20Entry%20145%2C386%2C985%2C974%2C100%2C%20or%20The%20%26quot%3BFoot%20in%20Mouth%26quot%3B%20Award%20goes%20to...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Obama adviser Gen. Wesley Clark, who Sunday made the following statement: &#8220;In the matters of national security policy making, it&#8217;s a matter of understanding risk. It&#8217;s a matter of gauging your opponents, and it&#8217;s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain&#8217;s never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}