So much for McCain’s Truth Squad. What a joke. McCain just trotted out a man who was a leading voice from the Swift boaters against John Kerry, Bud Day.
Sen. John McCain’s campaign on Monday launched the McCain “Truth Squad” - a group of political and Vietnam contemporaries who would counter attacks on the Senator’s military record. In hopes of nipping any criticism in the bud, the campaign brought on board a man quite familiar with how these types of attacks gain legs: Bud Day, a fellow POW who was part of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that worked so hard to defame Sen. John Kerry’s own Vietnam record.
On the conference call, Day - in addition to the other participants - decried comments made by Gen. Wesley Clark over the weekend, in which he questioned whether McCain’s war experience really qualified him to be commander-in-chief. Defending McCain’s service, Day was quick to personalize his remarks, attack.
That Day would politicize Vietnam in his defense of McCain is not surprising. During the 2004 campaign, he said of Kerry: “My view is he basically will go down in history sometime as the Benedict Arnold of 1971.” And after appearing in a national advertisement for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign, Day formed the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, an extension of the Swift Boat effort.
Asked to compare the attacks he helped launched against Kerry in 2004 to those being waged at McCain today, Day said the defining issue was truthfulness.
This only makes Obama’s remarks about Clark all the more regrettable. What a liar that Bud Young is.. At least he could have said “truthiness“….
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When Obama gets swiftboated does he think McCain will play Mr. Nice Guy?
Does he really think McCain will make a speech about how good-a-guy
Obama is?
NUTS!
Ladies and gentlemen: Just further proof that this country is in rapid decline. More unending bullshit that drains the energy and will of those with a brain.
Anyone willing to bet that America has seen its best days?
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
I don’t need further proof. I need people to put the brakes on this slide into oblivion. Wringing our hands over it is not working.
Whatever happened to studying political science and the law
And religious history and philosophy like I did?
Yet all I do is make dirty jokes on blogs.
ysbaddaden @ 4:
No, some of your jokes are not dirty.
The Democrats are punching bags.
Are they self loathing people?
Do they really enjoy being stepped on?
Do they really like the label “spineless pussies”?
I can’t help getting pissed about it, they look weak
I would really like to see Dems come out swinging to take Repug heads off!
I would like to see Dems with some chest thumping bravado!
I would like to see a party that has MOXY.
If they followed this advice I don’t think they would have to worry about
being viewed as week on the issues of national security.
Bud Day is an old fool who served his country well (or did he). regardless as I dont know, thank you for your service, sir. but please be quiet as no one cares what you think and never did before you swiftboated Kerry in 04. youre only relevance now is to be an antagonist.
Dear Jesus,
Please take the crusty useless evil life of Bud Day.
Thank you Lord.
Amen
weak*
Hey, I understand. Obama plays the nice guy while his surrogate give McLame a bloody nose
xoites defends Constituion @ 5:
And, dirty or not, about half the time your jokes aren’t funny.
*ZING!* :D
Its thinking like that, thats makes me like the guy.
Is it me or does that Bud guy looks like Yoda. “Obama young he is.”
Day said the defining issue was truthfulness.
Okay, the truth is that McCain was shot down and became a POW. That isn’t arguable.
What will always be arguable, and can never be defined as truth, is whether being shot down and captured gives you some extra qualification to be the POTUS.
McCain looks tall and almost healthy next to that guy! I suppose next he’ll drag Day around and not have to have his mother on hand. How did anyone that short (McCain is 5′6″ or 5′ 8″ whichever) get in the military anyway!
So getting shot down and captured does qualify you to be President?
Obama should put Wesley Clark on top of his list of nominees as a Vice President.
General Clark is well known and respected general,and what he said about McCain is the truth. Obama should let Clark do the talking..
This sweet talk by Obama of McCain will get him or Democrats nowhere.
These Swiftboaters are ready,just like in all last 5 elections to smear, and Obama now is their target.
Obama should seperate patriotism from qualaifications of McCain to be a president,or he will be in trouble. Nobody questioned the patriostism of McCain, but Clark did question service as criteria to be chosen as a president.
Now we know what Hillary Clinton and Diane Feinstein talked about when Barack met with them. They told him he will need to take techniques from Hillary’s campaign strategy in order to win. Didn’t Hillary lose? Barack is accepting Hillary’s losing approach. Barack won’t win now. He’s watered down his brand. He’s accepted being weak as his campaign approach.
Nice going, Obama. Looks like we got another bonehead
trying to be president. All you people that crabbed about
Hillary will be sorry she isn’t the candidate instead of Obama.
Clark should come out for McCain. Obama is a weasel.
11 Andy K Jong Il
I’m not sure if I’m an absurdist (I love Monty Python) or a cynic, or both.
Cynics are oft-times clever, and can turn out a well timed phrase, but not necessarily for a laugh.
Too many people compare satire to parody.
I think I see Karl Rove’s arm up McTaint’s ass. Look at the puppet go!
First of all, shame on John McCain. To allow this creep to be at his side is disgraceful. Second, what Wesley Clark said is true of anyone, not just McCain. Being a soldier does not a qualified president make. Period. Simple. We could say that about many categories that one might attach to candidates. Being white, black, male, female; these are not qualities that make one qualified. What makes one qualified is one’s experience with the issues, thoughtfulness about the issues, actions on the issues. Shame on McCain for grandstanding on these comments. But, of course, this is no surprise. He doesn’t have a grasp of the issues that would qualify him to be president.
well, the repugs insisted that everyone has
the right to own and carry guns…..what
better use could you have than to exercise
that right being crammed down your throat.
remember blackwater is being groomed by
the bush/cheney admin. to take over the
country if obama is looking like a sure win.
Andy K Jong Il @ 14:
From what i can tell being able to look the American People in the eye and lie with a straight face is really the only requirement. If the Media/Industrial Complex refuses to call you on it then Diebold is already working things out to make sure you get elected.
No other bonafides are required.
That guy sure looks OLD!!!
brokaw on ‘meet the press’ referred to mccain as a war hero again. i don’t understand how a pow is a war hero. clark’s remarks were gentle and if the msm keeps referring to mccain as a hero, they need to be called out.
McGramp’s contemporary?
A caption for the picture above…
Yes my friend, when kids are trespassing on my front rock garden in Arizona, I find it useful to yell, (pretend this is in caps) “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!”
15 Jusker
I’m 5′3″ and served in the Air Force
I may’ve been 5′4″ at the time
But life’s hammered me down.
It’s hammering time.
This asshole sold out his country for George Bush…Bud’s military service (whatever it was) will never make up for that fact. And in 100 years when history looks back it will be Bud Day who is the Benedict Arnold of our time. And actually that’s not fair to General Arnold…he was looking to surrender to a hostile military who he may or may not have thought were going to kill each and every man at the fort. Bud, on the other hand, was selling out his country for nothing more in a few bucks, for the tax breaks and other benefits people like Bud enjoy when a criminal Republican administration is in the White House. And for that Bud Day is much much worse.
Ratface @ 19:
You’re kidding, right? You don’t think that Clark didn’t know that Obama would be distancing himself from Clark publically?
What Clark did is known as “taking one for the team”.
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ysbaddaden @ 20:
Don’t get me wrong, you make me laugh a lot, ysbaddaden, and most of the time you’re looking for it, satire, absurdism, observationally, whatever…But you do let some klinkers go.
Me gone now
Time to turn on The Green Hornet
No, not that way
I’m not into insectuality.
Really pathetic and pitiful Obama.
Who is next to be tossed under the bus?
His wife?
I bet Clinton will have the General’s back.
Really F*ing Old meets even F*ing older. (You pick)
Google “Songbird McCain” and swiftboat that
Of course Brokaw failed to mention that McOldman destroyed a million dollar jet. Didn’t the Bush Administration try to make wounded service people pay for their destroyed armor in Iraq?
The way I see McCain is quite simple. I don’t see substantial command experience while he was in the military. And, as a Senator, he seemed to have an “enemy recognition” problem in not figuring out that our fight was with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, not the Iraqis. Also, a while back, while championing the war in Iraq, he didn’t make the distinctions between Shiite and Sunni.
That tells me he want to be a “give them heck” cheerleader, and leave the details to subordinates. And Lieberman slobbering over him tells me that those subordinates are the same neocon idiots that have formulated policy over the last 8 years. I don’t see commander in chief credentials here.
Obama was in Missouri today talking about patriotism, and saying he isn’t going to challenge anyone’s patriotism. That needs to be revisited. I would challenge the patriotism of anyone who deliberately misrepresented a national security threat in order to commit troops to a needless war, resulting in over 4000 US fatalities. I also question the patriotism of those who tolerate these kinds of people.
To that end, since McCain says that, knowing now what he knows, that he would do Iraq again, would he be willing to mislead Congress and the nation again, knowing that a representation that Iraq wasn’t a national security threat, would cost over $600B, and was solely a nation building endeavor would never cause Congress or the nation to support the war?
Okay, last thought, Benedict Arnold probably saw no difference in what he did and how George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity, and even signed a paper saying that the French-Indian war was the British’s fault (his home team.)
Right now on Countdown, both Obama and Keith Olbermann have stated how McCain’s patriotism should not be questioned. Olbermann went so far as to declare how McCain’s military service is “sacrosanct.” What neither of these two alleged liberals have thought to do is to think critically by wondering whether McCain should have blindly obeyed those orders which told him to incinerate Vietnamese civilians with napalm from 35,000 feet in the air. Apparently just further proof that flag waving liberals will allow their brains to shut down and their chests swell with pride whenever the word patriotism is floated in the air.
Erroll @ 38:
You mean this? This is going on now in Iraq, but the American Networks have blocked showing it to Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2dEqrN4i0
wheeee @ 6:
wheeee @ 6:
#36- NoBuddy,
Agree with you 100%
“…this Bud’s for you…”
Bud’s been good to McHensleysCommerceCommitteePuppet…
…a budwipe for a budwipe…
…when you say budwiper, you’ve said it all…
Homage to yousbadd
;-}
obama’s comments were oblique not direct….i think it was good strategy on his part it got the discussion out there……..i question mcBlame’s ability to be commander and chief……i don’t question his patriotism.
mccain will be third bush term…..that’s been pointed out now the obama campaign has to test the pow theme…many people/the public will identify with mcBlame just because of his past 40 yrs. ago that’s not enough for me….that was two generations ago….nonsense has been thrown at obama let’s not forget.
mcBlames calendar age is 71-72 but biological i’ll bet it’s close to 78-79……..the world has changed dramatically and will continue change at a speed never experienced before…the world is digital not analog
we need a change this is the transition to that change.
The big win for Obama today would have been for him (personally, not some surrogate) to come out and say, “Well, does getting shot down in a fighter plane qualify someone to be President?”
Obama has chosen a path to losing the Presidential Election of 2008 for the Democratic Party starting today.
McCain has a deeper military record than Wesley Clark? Well, he clearly must have a bigger penis.
John McCain’s military record is above scrutiny - John McCain’s exploitation of his military record for political gain is not. Is it that hard to note the distinction?
cg @ 46:
Its impossible. McCain has Monster Media Machine (used to be God, this is more powerful) on his side.
Soon McCain will say “Obama didn’t serve in the military. He is not patriotic”. There will be silence from the media about questioning someone’s patriotism. Obama thinks the media will be fair. What a fool.
Nice going, Obama. Looks like we got another bonehead
trying to be president. All you people that crabbed about
Hillary will be sorry she isn’t the candidate instead of Obama.
Clark should come out for McCain. Obama is a weasel.
You really dont think Hillary “McCain is ready day one” wouldnt have run away from Clark’s comments in the same way? Please.
WTF is wrong with Obama?… he needs to wake the fuck up!
Anyone with a line to him.. let him know it is ok to be a Liberal.. let him know it is ok to use a gun when stabbed in