{"id":195557,"date":"2008-06-30T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/wes-clark-completely-owns-john-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:28:00","slug":"wes-clark-completely-owns-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/wes-clark-completely-owns-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Clark Completely Owns John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His statement on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Face the Nation<\/span>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20080629\/pl_politico\/11425\">I don\u2019t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president<\/a>,&#8221; is both devastating and complex.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It plays into the views of most servicemen and ex-servicemen, that the &#8220;flyboys&#8221; are a bunch of pampered over appreciated folk.<\/li>\n<li>It compares to JFK&#8217;s statement on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">his<\/span> heroism, &#8220;It was unavoidable, they sank my boat&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Clark&#8217;s position as a general and a soldier allows him to put McCain&#8217;s record on the table.<\/li>\n<li>It raises McCain&#8217;s actual record, which is not so good, he almost made negative ace, which is now on the table.<\/li>\n<li>It takes one of the central pillars of his public personae, and challenges it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all that, finding out that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/barr-gop-says-one-thing-and-does-another-2008-06-29.html\">Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr accusing the Republican Party and John McCain of being lying jackals<\/a> is sort of an anti-climax, but it&#8217;s nice to see him piling on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His statement on Face the Nation, &#8220;I don\u2019t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president,&#8221; is both devastating and complex. It plays into the views of most servicemen and ex-servicemen, that the &#8220;flyboys&#8221; are a bunch of pampered over appreciated folk. It compares to JFK&#8217;s statement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,1006,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}