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What Digby Said....To quote Atrios
As Duncan Black would say...
"What Digby Said"
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/dont-want-to-say-i-told-you-so.html
Sheesh... I am troubled by this move to apologize for a rational statement by General Clark. We as Democrats have got to quit falling for the scare tactics of these bloviating blowhards on the right. Until we stop, we will have another election like 2004.
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As Digby points out:
Which is why it doesn't matter what Clarke said, and why the Obama campaign reacted the way they did. There are fights worth fighting...
June 30, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Les...it's more than a little disconcerting to see this happen. Perhaps the Obama campaign would have been better served by saying that they certainly honor McCain's service but fail to understand what was incorrect in Clark's statement and suggest that McCain continue the dialogue with Gen. Clark to iron out any problems they might have had with what he said. He didn't have to repudiate what Clark said.
It kind of reminds me of when Bill Clinton noted that JJ had won SC twice...certainly a ture statement relative to the result in SC. Live by manufactured outrage, die by manufactured outrage...
June 30, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but. Even I could have told Gen. Clark not to say anything about John McCain's service. Criticizing McCain's military service is totally off-limits to the mainstream media.
So now we know that in this election John McCain's war service card trumps Barack Obama's race card. That's how powerful it is. I don't like it either, but it's enough to get elected on.
June 30, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
And surely a general would know this. Right?
June 30, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink