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WES CLARK, AIRHEAD

I know Gen. Clark is a smart guy, as he's quick to tell anyone who asks. But what to make of his flips on the Iraq war? Looks like evidence of airheadism to me.

If you were running for president, in today's climate, what questions would you automatically expect the press to ask of you?

--Your stand on the progress or lack in war? Of course.
--How should we combat terrorism in general? Of course.
--Your stand on the tax cuts? Of course.
--Your stand on blah blah blah? Naturally.

Surely, you'd expect some reporter, somewhere, at some time to ask what you thought about Iraq. You know--should we have gone in when we did, was it a good thing that we knocked off Saddam, what should do with the place now? I'd expect that question to come up. Any reasonable person would expect that question to come up. In fact, any reasonable person would expect that a reporter would automatically ask a frickin' General who's running for president about his thoughts on a frickin' war, no?

But not Wesley Clark. On 60 Minutes II, he says it took him by surprise:

Clark says he wants to be president, but he discovered that he wasn’t ready for the political combat of a campaign. He stumbled right out of the gate.

First, he told reporters he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war against Saddam. Then, he said he wasn’t sure, and then he said would have voted against it.

“At the time I did this, I made this statement, I was having what I thought was an informal, I wasn’t clear whether it was on-the-record or off-the-record discussion about the philosophy of sort of entering the presidency. And somehow the Iraq question got thrown in,” says Clark, who told Rather he didn’t expect to be asked that question. “But when it came, it’s the kind of, it’s the, there’s no question that it wasn’t what I wanted to say.”

Now, Clark says he wouldn’t have voted for the resolution that passed, but a different one that Congress never voted on: “I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.”

Somehow the Iraq question got thrown in...? Uh, General, the Iraq question is, like, the biggest question in the world right now. It has 70,000 or so Brits worked up enough to make giant puppets and parade them around London. And you're running for president, a position that, should you get it, would sort of force you to deal with the whole Iraq thing. Think of these press talks as job interviews, which in fact they are. Learn to anticipate these kinds of questions. It'll save you more than a few headaches.

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Posted by B. Preston on November 20, 2003 5:19 PM
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Clark isn’t really all that smart. He was a career bumbler as an Officer and he’s carrying his bumbling ways into his political career. The man gets anything he gets because of connections, not because he’s done anything to deserve it.

Bush isn’t really all that smart. He was a career bumbler as a deserter and he’s carrying his bumbling ways into his political career. The man gets anything he gets because of connections, not because he’s done anything to deserve it.

Posted by Webster on November 21, 2003 12:11 PM

You left out how he now says he never would have hired Rumsfeld, when two years ago he said this country needed him there.

old boy obviously isn’t accustomed to having to answer questions from the peanut gallery that they haven’t been briefed to ask.

Oh, and Webster, you don’t fly F102s and survive to tell about it if you’re a bumbler. Projecting, perhaps?

Posted by JSAllison on November 21, 2003 5:08 PM

Hey Webster, whaddya say to this:

“US President George Bush is ‘totally at odds’ with his media image, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell said today. Mr. Campbell, an opponent of the war with Iraq, spoke out on the ePolitix website about his discussions with the President during the state visit. He said that they discussed directly issues such as Iraq, the Middle East, Guantanamo Bay, Kyoto and trade sanctions. ‘He is personally extremely engaging. He has a well-developed sense of humour, is self-deprecating and when he engages in a discussion with you he is warm and concentrates directly on you. He looks you straight in the eye and tells you exactly what he thinks.’”

That’s from a liberal British MP who met Bush during this week’s trip. I’ve met Bush—he’s a smart guy. But don’t take it from a conservative if you don’t want to—take it from a fellow lib if it makes it go down easier.

Posted by Bryan on November 21, 2003 8:49 PM

Oh, and Webster, you don’t fly F102s and survive to tell about it if you’re a bumbler. Projecting, perhaps?

I’m obviously too liberal to know what this means. Would this happen to refer to the Bush’s daring carrier landing? I’m all welled up.

Mr. Campbell, an opponent of the war with Iraq, spoke out on the ePolitix website about his discussions with the President during the state visit.

Bryan, you describe this guy as a liberal British MP. So what? One guy says this, when you have a whole slew of idiocies coming from Bush stateside (and overseas – don’t suppose you caught his interview, or how about his impressive statesmanship in front of the Queen?), and so much so that he doesn’t have regular press conferences, and when he does make speeches, it’s only in front of friendly, safe crowds. Some vigorous mind you have there.

Yea, Clark would be a disaster compared to Bush.

Tell me – who do you think is more bumbling, Bush or Clark?

Really, now.

Posted by Webster on November 22, 2003 3:24 AM

Webster,

The F-102 comments is in reference to the fact that Bush used to fly them as a fighter pilot in the Air National Guard. Flying a fighter jet is certainly no job for a fool.

While Bush is certainly not the greatest orator of our day, I hope you agree that just because he is “vernacularly challenged” doesn’t mean he is a fool.

Would you ever claim that the opposite is true: that, for instance, Farrakhan was your intellectual superior simply because he could annunciate you into pretzel knots? I doubt it.

Let’s call Bush what he really is, a poor orator, and not a dummy.

Webster, F102’s are fighter airplanes. Pres. Bush was qualified as a pilot of this aircraft during his National Guard service. Flying an F102 requires great dexterity and the ability to make split-second decisions of a life-and-death nature. This is exponentially above the primitive knee-jerk responses your liberal brain can handle, so it’s not surprising you don’t understand.

Dismissing Pres. Bush’s well-reasoned speeches because you don’t care for his delivery certainly shows the vigor of your mind. I suppose you don’t think much of Stephen Hawking, either; that mechanical voice is just so droll. They must both be idiots.

So, to answer your question - Clark is more bumbling, of course. Really. And now. Just ask those who served with him. Oh, I forgot - personal experience means nothing to you, since you ignored Bryan’s personal observation that Pres. Bush is indeed “a smart guy”.

Posted by Joe Lemyre on November 22, 2003 10:00 AM

Clark’s latest flip-flop on Rumsfeld is another classic example of his Clintonesque training:

Check it out here.

Joe Lemyre:

You must change your shorts constantly watching the history channel.

Anyway:

seems…

F102’s are fighter airplanes. Pres. Bush was qualified as a pilot of this aircraft during his National Guard service. Flying an F102 requires great dexterity and the ability to make split-second decisions of a life-and-death nature…yadda, yadda, yadda, insult the liberal thing.

Bush deserted. Clark stays in. Your point?

Clark? Okay. A few people don’t like him. Maybe more than that. But your Champion George W.? He’s a deserter. Tell me otherwise (and I suppose you’d have the balls to say otherwise, well…) And he’s supposed to be somehow better than any, and I mean ANY, of the democratic candidates running for office.

Does George hate America since he couldn’t find his way to Vietnam?

You wouldn’t happen to be paid to be asserting othewise, would you?

Posted by Webster on November 23, 2003 5:01 AM

My point, Webster, was that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Thank you for proving it so convincingly.

Posted by Joe Lemyre on November 25, 2003 10:08 AM
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