Reply #42: Then by that flimsy logic, [View All]

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Wes Clark is a dedicated corporatist, a lobbyist insider, a pundit who was perfectly willing to trumpet the Republican line and someone who can't seem to make difinitive decisions, even though that's supposed to be his strong suit. He got fired from his command, has many enemies in the officer corps, a bad temper, an imperious strain to his personality and no qualms about lying about his opponents for personal gain.

As a corporate player, he's intimately linked with the military industrial complex, making money from the deaths of others. As a lobbyist, he's earned money by trying to subvert the system from the inside, when he has the effrontery to call himself an outsider. Fast and loose with election money laws, he tried to have it both ways being paid to speak while a candidate.

He's for abortion rights, even though he's against abortion personally, and is on record as having no problems adding new restrictions to access to the procedure, but wants us to think that he'll definitely be a champion to keep Roe in place and still be a good Catholic while being for abortion and wouldn't ever attempt to get rid of it. Huh?

His word is his bond, even though it's just fine to lie about his opponents. Even though he hasn't lived in civilian life for most of his existence, he still deeply knows what the broad populace needs, wants and feels. Having worked in a rigid hierarchy with guaranteed obedience, he's uniquely silled to navigate the world of politics, which is based on lack of obedience, agreement and coexistence as equals.

If just a whiff of truth justifies a statement, then this guy is everything to everybody; but then to be that, one must also be nobody to anybody.

It's all very funny.

What's galling about him and Dean is that they can just sit there and snipe how they would have done this or wouldn't have done that, and they're doing it against two very courageous and noble individuals who have cold, stark records to have selectively represented by various rascals. It's like they don't have to show their cards, while K&E have theirs showing on the table.

The lying issue was just the corker for me. That is unfathomably unprincipled. I can't see why it doesn't cause outrage. It disgusts me. If it came from someone who had a record I could examine, it would make me very dismayed, but I could at least have some evidence of how the person had acted. With his flip-flopping and now outright lying, I have no idea what to expect.

At least a couple of Clark supporters have shown some decency and been bothered by this, but far too few, and that disgusts me.