McCain is like going on a date with someone that only talks about himself. And has nothing else to offer the American than people than his war record.
Were happy for Ya Great Job, Lets move on. Your war record isn’t going to help you with your people skills. Or leading this country.

Two aspects of military service, particularly in wartime and particularly in combat and particularly at the level of junior command, are incredibly important preparation for the Presidency however.

The first is having the responsibility to give and actually having given orders to people you know which result can and have resulted in their death and a visceral understanding of the price that is paid. If you have touched them in life and smelled them in death, and had to write the letter to the wife or mother, so much the better. Decades later in the oval office the price paid by those ordered to combat will never be an abstraction and always at the forefront of awareness.

The second is that those in the military receiving their orders know the difference between a CIC that has been there and one that has not. In combat, obeying orders means doing your duty to the best of your ability when you are scared as hell. It is a lot easier to do so recognizing the source of the order is asking you to do anything he hasn't one himself. That does not make the orders good ones. It does, however, make them respected. And respect lives in the gut.

So the bottom line is that McCain's experience gives him the trust of street credibility within the ranks of the military. And that credibility is far more important with those actually doing any fighting than it is to the generals.

On its own, this dimension neither firmly qualifies nor firmly disqualifies for the Presidency. But CIC is one of the President's most important roles, military experience does matter; McCain has it; Obama doesn't.

Now I know why the country is falling apart, if our teachers are so illiterate and poorly educated, what happens to the students.

McCain talks war this and war that, and that is it. And I too agree that it is about judgment. Even though Obama never served in the military, he had great judgment to know and speak out agasint the EXACT outcomes of the Iraq war, whereas McCain did not (he was on of the main drum beaters).

They twisted Kerry's war record, so McCain's should be no different.

And furthermore, Clinton did not serve. Yet he was a hecka lot better than Bush could ever be. McCain thinks national security is his strong point. In those debates, Obama is going to make him and the rest of America see otherwise. Obama 2008!

Obama need to stop rejecting the truth to please McCain. This will not stop the republicans from attacking him...
Let Clark attack the only claimed advantage of McCain:
Many years of experience but poor judgement...McCain vote and support for the Iraq war should disqualify him from becoming president.
Obama need strong advisor who will support attacking McCain on his false leadership experience. We don't like weak leaders
Obama, you either be strong or we will vote for Barr.

It seems for months and months, that's all the Dems do is speak nasty, attack and throw barbs, at each other and at their opponents.

McCain has demonstrated he has the better judgement, and character through out this primary season, and the pressure and challenge has brought out the true and worst parts of the Obama and the Obamaites.

So Please someone remind me why everyone says the Repubs are the nasty ones. I see it quite the opposite.

PS: I'm an independant, swear no allegiance to a party, I vote for who I think will do the better job.

Now, how can you trust a man like McCain as your president? He is now criticizing Obama for changing his mind on Public Campaign Financing issue? What a hypocrite he is....

What is the difference between what Clark said and what the McCain camp has attempted by trying to discredit Clark? Even their efforts to denigrate Clark's service is backfiring ......

how a bout KEATING 5...that was a McCain OJ
what about womanizing.... them some morals for ya
kinda lovin that war in afgan. and Iraq...so what a few people die? right?
oh yeah gotta love the ENRON buddies
how a bout the senile paranoia? "oh he talked about me...Barack can you please cut him loose?" whaa whaa whaa...john mccain..

get real

After all there are millions of people who have served in the military, think we can pick a better person from there then old old ways of doing things...

And dear McCain cant even take a stance, tell me where he have not flip flopped... Tomorrow he will properly promote peace in the middle east and no more wars against the Muslims...

Please someone tell me what Obama is going to change - oh wait, he is going to turn the USA into a socialist state.

If you want BIG govenment and a 50% tax rate -- vote OBAMA!

Jim Hagee who also preaches hatred for catholics shows the kind of judgment McCain has. Thats why it took him 3months to come out and denounce those extremists.

The front runners, McCain and Obama, can expect many more degoratory things to be said about them from now until election day. The Clinton machine did their upmost best to bring Obama down, but it backfired on them.

I am not surprised at the things that are being said about McCain by a supposedly upstanding retired general. I don't base my decision on who to vote for based on what someone else has to say about a particular candidate. .

I, like many others, am undecided as to whom I plan to vote for in November. I need more input on the issues that are affecting our daily lives. High cost of fuel, high cost of food, closing down of automobile plants putting many people out of work, the critical situation with the housing market, drilling for more oil, making America self-sufficient, again and countless number of other issues are the only things that plague my mind.

Geradine Ferraro is a big laugh to me, she made a comment that Obama would not be where he is today had he not been a black man. That is a very racist comment, however, she has since changed her mind and have decided to support Obama, only because she is a Democrat. How in the world did this woman ever get into politics to begin with?

In February 2003, the Arizona Republican said "Absolutely not," when asked whether "military service inherently makes somebody better equipped to be commander-in-chief."

It might be a nice thing, but I absolutely don't believe that it's necessary."

I rest my case...Mr. Clark move on with your life we see your point now, thank u for stating what McCain himself said.

Obama '08

Clark has been watching too much of The View and Oprah.

a) included the comment about McCain's record (Clark did not just come up with this on his own); and
b) made it sound as though Obama was at a disadvantage for not having been a POW

Gen. Clark said nothing to discredit service, only that McCain, who is running on his military credentials, has no leadership experience

This is completely different than the Swift Boat inciddent, in which compensated surrogates questioned a solider's record. Gen. Clark acknowledges and praises McCain's record, but merely points out that it does not make him fit to be President.

Keep speaking up Clark. As a vet you represent those of us vets that don't support Bush and McCain. We need your voice heard.