Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.


Posted by Portnoy ® , Sep 09,2003,23:59   MetroBlab
Newsweek: What do you think of President Bush's using war imagery as a political tool, like when he recently flew onto an aircraft carrier?

Wesley Clark: "The world expects something more of an American president than to prance around on a flight deck dressed up like [a] pilot. He's expected to be a leader. That's my fundamental issue with it. It doesn't reflect the gravitas of the office. Furthermore, it's a little phony."

--modified at Tue, Sep 09, 2003, 23:59:42

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Al Franken on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Portnoy
Posted by Rikki ® , Sep 10,2003,11:32   MetroBlab
Franken proposed a commercial for John Kerry on The Daily Show last night:

Show Bush in flight suit on aircraft carrier:

"Dress-up and make-believe are fun, but when Bush had a chance to be a real fighter pilot, he got his Daddy to enlist him in the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL for a year."

Grainy photo of Kerry in Vietnam:

"Sorry for the poor quality on this picture. It was too dangerous to bring in a camera crew."

Return to Bush in full photo-op regalia.

Cut to Kerry in a pirate suit with a parrot on his shoulder:

"Dress-up and make-believe are fun, but America needs a real President who can handle our huge, complex economy and international policy. Isn't that right, Petey?"

"Squawk! That's right, John. Squawk!"


Thanks in advance to CQBitHackESQ for the vacuous sputterings...

Either way

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Portnoy
Posted by Lysander Spooner ® , Sep 10,2003,07:04   MetroBlab
we're screwed.
Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Portnoy
Posted by Two Bit Hack ® , Sep 10,2003,06:30   MetroBlab
Wesley Clark is a joke and disgrace to the Armed Services of America. HE fucked up in Panama and then the Iron Block.
Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Two Bit Hack
Posted by Marx Engels ® , Sep 10,2003,08:39   MetroBlab
Don't forget he can't tell the Constitution from the Communist Manifesto.
Clark and the Founders on progressive taxation

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Marx Engels
Posted by Portnoy ® , Sep 11,2003,01:03   MetroBlab
Don't forget he [Clark] can't tell the Constitution from the Communist Manifesto.

You're referring to Clark's comment, "I thought this country was founded on a principle of progressive taxation."

Of course, Clark is actually right. While the constitution makes no specific reference to "progressive taxation," the concept can easily be found in the recommendations of the authors of the Constutution. To wit:

Alexander Hamilton, from Federalist No. 36 (Tuesday, January 8, 1788):

"...that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!"

You're not suggesting that Alexander Hamilton read the Communist Manifesto, are you?

Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- Two Bit Hack
Posted by fluffy ® , Sep 10,2003,07:09   MetroBlab
lets see you become a 4-star general and earn the purple heart. then you can have the gaul to say that. funny, if this guy were running as a repub, you wouldnt be able to praise him enough. thats the problem with the 2 parties-your loyalty clouds your reasoning. id back clark regardless of which party he was a part of(id rather him run independent), because he has the most common sense. but whatever. you just keeping being the repub lapdog you are. you are exactly what they wanted to turn you into. good job, 69CQBitHack.
Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- fluffy
Posted by CQB ® , Sep 10,2003,09:02   MetroBlab
I would venture a guess that he would have only made E5 had he gone in straight out of high school. He doesn't have the balls to make it to OCS from an even playing field.

He's a clown, pure and simple. No better than the 'one bar' in Heartbreak Ridge.

BTW: What kind of sucking up must have taken place to get this clown his "letter" for West Point?


Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- CQB
Posted by Portnoy ® , Sep 11,2003,00:17   MetroBlab
Clark graduated first in his class at West Point.

Um, er, how well did Bush do in college?

Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- CQB
Posted by fluffy ® , Sep 10,2003,10:04   MetroBlab
"He's a clown, pure and simple"

hes a 4-star general, pure and simple. and what is W? for that matter, what are you?

"What kind of sucking up must have taken place to get this clown his "letter" for West Point?"

uh huh. and how did W get into Yale again?

Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- fluffy
Posted by hi top ® , Sep 10,2003,10:25   MetroBlab
Hell yeah fluffy!
Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight.

Re: Wesley Clark on Bush's phony flight. -- hi top
Posted by Milo Obrannigan ® , Sep 10,2003,19:26   MetroBlab
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