Codey reaffirms support for Clark as VP

What possible significance is there in considering who Dick Codey would like to see as the Vice-Presidential selection for Barack Obama?

Does the Senator just like to see his name in print? Codey guessed dead wrong early on in the Presidential sweepstakes by strongly backing the risible popinjay trial lawyer, John Edwards.

Everyone else had a good laugh at "Silky" (remember "I feel Pretty?") but somehow Codey missed out on the joke.

And, it is also well known that Codey's real preference for the VP slot is former United States Senator from New Jersey, Bill Bradley, and not Clark at all.

But for geographic reasons, Codey earlier (in late June) decided to back Clark.

That was before Clark stumbled badly and tried to make the case that John McCain was somehow unqualified for President because of his heroic service as a POW, and the fact that he had not been a high level commander.

That was when everyone with an I.Q higher than 7 immediately asked the obvious rhetorical question -- so what does that make Obama?  He is big ZERO when it comes to any sort of experience -- not even one full term as a Senator, no executive experience whatsoever, and absolutely no military experience at all?

Apparently because of his expressed adherence to the geographic argument (see link above), Codey must somehow buy into the silly idea that Clark would bring Arkansas into the Obama column.

by Trochilus

endorses Remy Martin for VSOP...

I think Obama should of chosen Former Sen. John Edwards as his VP. They both are nationally recognized progressive candidates. Biden? Clark? Bradley? All three won't help him get more votes.

He needs someone who will help him gain vote. Clinton, Gore, or Edwards.

People need to stop the BS, he needs a nationally popular politician.

Trochilus either doesn't understand the English language very well, or he is changing Clark's words to mislead people who didn't hear what Clark actually said. If it's the latter, I'd call it lying.

Clark never said that McCain wasn't qualified because he got shot down, he said that getting shot down doesn't qualified someone for president (and that only because it was the exact wording Bob Schieffer had used a moment before). A true statement from a man who was shot up pretty bad in Vietnam himself.

Clark won't be Obama's VP nominee, but Codey is correct that Clark would be an outstanding choice. In my twenty years of military service, I never knew a better leader.

Lots of letters commenter, hf_jai, opines by thoroughly misconstruing my prior comment.

He/she writes:

"Clark never said that McCain wasn't qualified because he got shot down, he said that getting shot down doesn't qualified someone for president (and that only because it was the exact wording Bob Schieffer had used a moment before). A true statement from a man who was shot up pretty bad in Vietnam himself."

What Wesley Clark actually said in a very demeaning manner was,

"I don‘t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President."

He made that and other disparaging comments about John McCain when Bob Shieffer challenged Clark’s prior written comments to the effect that McCain was "untested and untried."

Shieffer ticked off several very telling points about John McCain’s long record of service to the country in response to Clark’s baseless attack, including noting that, in addition to having been a prisoner of war, McCain had been a squadron commander of the largest squadron in the Navy, that he had served for many years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Bob concluded with the very telling point that Barack Obama certainly never sat in a fighter plane that was shot down. Barack Obama never even served a single moment in the military.

But undeterred, Clark went on to try and belittle McCain’s service, suggesting that he never had to face executive experience. Well, of course, Barack Obama has never once has held any kind of executive experience either, save on the Harvard Law Review.

Yet Clark tried to dismiss all of that, by saying Obama is not running on his "experience“ . . . he‘s running on his judgment! Ha ha!

The reason Wesley Clark then quickly disappeared from the political stage (two months ago), was that he had managed to publicly make the strongest case yet against Barack Obama. And he kept it up, appearing on Morning Joe and other shows . . . maybe just in case no one heard him the first time?

So bad was the political damage that Senator Obama had to publicly rejected Clark’s comments, thus throwing Clark under the bus right along with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, Jim Johnson (Countrywide), Tony Rezko, his own Grandma Dunham, domestic terrorist friends William Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn (she, also a Charles Manson admirer), Frank Marshall Davis (mentor), Charley Rangel, John Edwards, Kenya, his own personal Presidential seal, the Strategic Oil Reserve, the bitter, bible hugging & gun toting folks of rural PA., Muslim supporters in the backdrop, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (just kidding about the last one!)

What the politically tone-deaf Wesley Clark had managed to do was to once again prove what most of us with any sense have known all along -- Barack Obama is an utterly unqualified candidate for the Presidency.

Now, comes Dick Codey with a desire to resurrect Clark! Hey, have at it!

As a non-fan of the Obama team, whoever‘s ticket he punches, my own two favorites -- or should I say "devoutly to be wished" choices -- would be the two out of control big mouths, Wesley Clark and Joe Biden!

That way, at least we’ll have some entertainment to look forward to this fall.

by Trochilus

In my list of those thrown under the Obama Bus, above, my regrets for neglecting to include Comrade Klonsky also known as a former Weather Underground SDS leader, hardcore Maoist, and good friend of Bill Ayres.

His name is Mike Klonsky, and he was connected with both Bill and Barack in the "school wars" at the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago.

Until the end of June of this year, he was also blogging at the Barack Obama Presidential web site until somebody noted who he was -- then, poof, his web portal at the Presidential site just suddenly disappeared.

Go directly to the underside of the bus, they said!

You can read more very recent information about the Annenberg Challenge and the long term relationship between Obama and Ayres, on a blog written by Law Professor, Steve Diamond starting here.

Enjoy!

by Trochilus