{"id":30740,"date":"2012-07-12T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30740"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:35:01","slug":"votevets-and-wesley-clark-discover-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30740","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets and Wesley Clark discover the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Wesley Clark has weighed in to VoteVets on the comment that Congressman Joe Walsh made about Tammy Duckworth which the Democrats has construed as meaning that she’s not a “true hero”. First, what Walsh said;<\/p>\n

Walsh said. \u201cNow I\u2019m running against a woman who, I mean, my God, that\u2019s all she talks about. Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it\u2019s the last thing in the world they talk about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The context was that real heroes don’t talk much about their service, but obviously, that’s all Tammy Duckworth has to run on. I’m not saying she shouldn’t, I’m just reporting the discussion. Walsh has gone on CNN since and correctly repeated that he’s said that Duckworth is a hero hundreds of times, but because her service is the centerpiece of her campaign, she has to make up attacks on her service in order to gain a leg up (no pun intended) on her opponent.<\/p>\n

But anyway, Wesley Clark, this generation’s General George McClellan, felt a need to weigh in last week in a letter to VoteVets and their supporters;<\/p>\n

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Obviously, Clark would like us to forget that he criticized John McCain’s service when McCain was running for the presidency in 2008. Clark said, according to Jon Solz, VoteVets’ Executive Director in the Huffington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

So, in short, General Clark respects John McCain\u2019s service, calls him a hero to millions, but notes that experience doesn\u2019t make him qualified to be Commander in Chief.<\/p>\n

Now, VoteVets.org isn\u2019t getting into the presidential race, but I don\u2019t see what is so wrong about what General Clark said. And yet, immediately and unsurprisingly, the McCain campaign let loose with a response that expressed shock and dismay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks exactly like what Walsh said; that McCain is a hero, but that being shot down doesn’t qualify him for the presidency. Back then Soltz wrote “I don\u2019t see what is so wrong about what General Clark said”. But now, because the shoe is on the other foot, it’s an entirely different tune. Oh, did I mention that Duckworth was on VoteVets’ Board of Directors, along with Wesley Clark until this campaign? That she staffed the Department of Veterans’ Affairs from the ranks of VoteVets – that’s where dicksmith works now, along with most of the VoteVets members who we’ve profiled here. <\/p>\n

I know I wrote about this once before, but I figured that it needed to be said again. I was trapped in the waiting room at Walter Reed last week with Wolf Blitzer on the tube while he was interviewing Walsh and found Walsh totally believable in regards to his comments, despite the double teaming efforts of Blitzer and his staff to make him crack. <\/p>\n

Guess I’m always amazed at the hypocritical lengths Soltz and the boys at VoteVets will employ, all the while calling themselves non-partisan because they once supported Chuck Hagel, the anti-war Republican Senator from Nebraska. And in regards to their support for Hagel that they like to wave around as proof of their “non-partisan” creds, Hagel never ran for office during the time that VV existed. He served two terms beginning in 1997 – his only reelection bid was in 2002 before VV existed, then he retired in 2009 when that term ended. So VV has never supported a Republican veteran for any office, despite what they tell us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, Wesley Clark has weighed in to VoteVets on the comment that Congressman Joe Walsh made … VoteVets and Wesley Clark discover the internet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}