{"id":15866,"date":"2008-06-13T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15866.html"},"modified":"2008-06-13T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:45:05","slug":"clark-hits-mccain-and-hits-all-the-right-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clark-hits-mccain-and-hits-all-the-right-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark hits McCain — and hits all the right notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wesley Clark spoke with the Huffington Post this week, and was unrelenting<\/a> in his criticism of John McCain. “I know he’s trying to get traction by seeking to play to what he thinks is his strong suit of national security,” Clark said. “The truth is that, in national security terms, he’s largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. He’s never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It’s not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is.”<\/p>\n

Clark went on to dismiss McCain’s worldview on national security altogether. “McCain’s weakness is that he’s always been for the use of force, force and more force. In my experience, the only time to use force is as a last resort. … When he talks about throwing Russia out of the G8 and makes ditties about bombing Iran, he betrays a disrespect for the office of the presidency.”<\/p>\n

This morning, Clark appeared on MSNBC, where he was challenged to defend his rather scathing assessment. I thought he did extremely well.<\/p>\n