by Werner » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:57 am
As I recall, a number of Armed Services Committee meetings are confidential. Mr. Clark would not have access to the deliberations, so he would not know McCain's role there.
As for "executive experience", which I take Mr. Clark means "command experience", McCain commanded VA-174, and his duties in VA-163 are not entirely clear. Commanding an attack squadron is a complex task, where one flies more than a desk, but must still manage two dozen "prima donna" pilots, a hundred or so enlisted men and coordinate with the ship and task force command. In addition, McCain attended the National War College, where they teach this sort of thing, including practical exercises, and as liason to the Senate, he had an "army" of military personnel and civilians at his command.
I would ask for a Marine aviator here to compare the duties of a staff officer and a squadron commander.
The real point or Clark's fit and tirade is missed, for what formations has Barak Obama commanded? What are the decisions he made that sent men in harm's way? These three man each have unique answers: McCain was awarded and promoted as one of the most distinguished men of the Vietnam War.
Clark was fired as commander in an international command for insubordination, as well as failure of "integrity and character", and dismissed from the service. Most of his peers speak of him derisively, as if the man had "lost it".
Any how many divisions or planes did Obama command? What are his qualifications for leadership? Speaking as a citizen of Illinois, I have a little more insight. He followed the orders of his leader Mike Madigan without debate or question, and voted "present" hundreds and hundreds of times, lacking the knowledge or courage to say "yay" or "nay". The city he represented now has the highest sales tax in the USA, on top of city, county, regional transportation, and state taxes. I would endorse his fitrep as "unfit for further duty", notwithstanding the insane proposal to nationalize the charity system and force every student to perform hundreds of hours of community service at $30-40 an hour, adding to the estimated additional $1 trillion in debt his prevously announced programs will generate. The tax burden for these programs will either destroy the dollar as a currency of international trade, making fuel and so much else unaffordable, but they will throw the country into deep depression and strip the average person of his life's savings, pension and retirement.
He is a dangerous socialist who will destroy the country.
As I recall, a number of Armed Services Committee meetings are confidential. Mr. Clark would not have access to the deliberations, so he would not know McCain's role there.
As for "executive experience", which I take Mr. Clark means "command experience", McCain commanded VA-174, and his duties in VA-163 are not entirely clear. Commanding an attack squadron is a complex task, where one flies more than a desk, but must still manage two dozen "prima donna" pilots, a hundred or so enlisted men and coordinate with the ship and task force command. In addition, McCain attended the National War College, where they teach this sort of thing, including practical exercises, and as liason to the Senate, he had an "army" of military personnel and civilians at his command.
I would ask for a Marine aviator here to compare the duties of a staff officer and a squadron commander.
The real point or Clark's fit and tirade is missed, for what formations has Barak Obama commanded? What are the decisions he made that sent men in harm's way? These three man each have unique answers: McCain was awarded and promoted as one of the most distinguished men of the Vietnam War.
Clark was fired as commander in an international command for insubordination, as well as failure of "integrity and character", and dismissed from the service. Most of his peers speak of him derisively, as if the man had "lost it".
Any how many divisions or planes did Obama command? What are his qualifications for leadership? Speaking as a citizen of Illinois, I have a little more insight. He followed the orders of his leader Mike Madigan without debate or question, and voted "present" hundreds and hundreds of times, lacking the knowledge or courage to say "yay" or "nay". The city he represented now has the highest sales tax in the USA, on top of city, county, regional transportation, and state taxes. I would endorse his fitrep as "unfit for further duty", notwithstanding the insane proposal to nationalize the charity system and force every student to perform hundreds of hours of community service at $30-40 an hour, adding to the estimated additional $1 trillion in debt his prevously announced programs will generate. The tax burden for these programs will either destroy the dollar as a currency of international trade, making fuel and so much else unaffordable, but they will throw the country into deep depression and strip the average person of his life's savings, pension and retirement.
He is a dangerous socialist who will destroy the country.