This one's for real... Obama Aide: Bill Clinton Like McCarthy

[boston bean]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iWSIm6rMH4mnWBT-fKZg_58OrA8QD8VI5C680


SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A retired Air Force general compared former President Clinton to Joseph McCarthy, the 1950s communist-hunting senator, on Friday after Clinton seemed to question Democrat Barack Obama's patriotism.

Merrill "Tony" McPeak, a former chief of staff of the Air Force and currently a co-chair of Obama's presidential campaign, said he was disappointed by comments Clinton made while campaigning for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech Friday in Charlotte, N.C.

"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," Clinton said. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

McPeak learned of the remarks while at an Obama rally in Salem, Ore. Afterward, he called Clinton's statement horrible and compared it to McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin who held hearings on suspected Communist sympathizers in the 1950s.

"It sounds more like McCarthy," McPeak said. "I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had enough of it."

[JohnnyLib2]

1. Uh-oh

This is on his home page:

Bringing You The Latest In News Satire and Sarcasm...

[boston bean]

2. I guess my satire radar is not working this evening. lol i'm gonna erase it.

thanks.

[qnr]

3. It happens :) - though part of the confusion might be due to the fact

that it was pretty boring.

[boston bean]

4. I just posted a real story in it's place, so read again. thanks! nt

[qnr]

5. Amazing how far they'll stretch n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

6. That's my thought, too.

Low blow, though.

[qnr]

8. The thing is, it's deliberate. They know that is not what he meant. He meant

that people should just accept that there are two people who love their country and are devoted to its interests (paraphrase, of course) - not that only one of them does and is.

[LulaMay]

7. unreal.

[qnr]

9. And this from a former Chief of Staff of the USAF. More poor judgment from

their camp.

[UALRBSofL]

10. MassDem The Clinton Campaign has already replied to this new slam

I heard it a few minutes ago. I don't have a link but I'm sure it is somewhere on the net. :)

[lachattefolle]

11. Well, alot of Americans are going to remain incensed over the

God damn America speech that Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor gave. In many eyes, he will be branded a traitor by a skillful Repuke machine. If McPeak, general idiot, extrapolated from Bill's remarks that he had called Obama a traitor, he's not seen the GE ads yet. Really, any fool could put together very nasty anti-Obama ads, with the wealth of ammo he keeps providing.

[jackson_dem]

12. Another smear from the "new kind of politics"/"politics of hope"