How did that line from Joseph Welch go again, Barry?
Oh, yes: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
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And here I thought that the Obama campaign might actually start to run out of mud to throw.
Obama aide: Bill Clinton like McCarthy
By MATT APUZZOSALEM, Ore. - A retired Air Force general compared former President Clinton to Joseph McCarthy, the 1950s communist-hunting senator, on Friday after Clinton seemed to question Democrat Barack Obama's patriotism.
Merrill "Tony" McPeak, a former chief of staff of the Air Force and currently a co-chair of Obama's presidential campaign, said he was disappointed by comments Clinton made while campaigning for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech Friday in Charlotte, N.C.
"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," Clinton said. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."
McPeak learned of the remarks while at an Obama rally in Salem, Ore. Afterward, he called Clinton's statement horrible and compared it to McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin who held hearings on suspected Communist sympathizers in the 1950s.
"It sounds more like McCarthy," McPeak said. "I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had enough of it."
(H/T: Hot Air)
Read on.
I will not get into discussing Joe McCarthy per se, except to note that the fight against Soviet Communism deserved a much better man than him to be its face in the 1950s. I will note that this was deliberately meant to be as vicious and low an attack as could be made against someone from the attacker's own party, and I would have expected that the Obama campaign would have shown some hesitation about so blatantly (and by their lights, filthily) attacking one of the only two living Democrats to have been President. Apparently not*: in fact, McPeak does that so well, you'd never know that he used to be a Republican. No zealot like a convert, apparently.
Actually, no, you can keep him. He's clearly found his niche.
Moe Lane
*Obama's the one winning, right? It's been hard to tell just from the rhetoric, the last week or so.
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Thanks for proving that you and your supporters are no different than any other politician and his/her crew.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
With all the gaffes & "situations" he's facing, & not doing a very good job facing him.
I've read several pundits who are coming out to say he's going to win regardless. To me, they sound desperate; it's like they're trying to speak it into existence. Dick Morris comes to mind with this - I wonder what is really behind his hatred of Hillary?
I didn't know that winning meant one's poll numbers are sinking like a lead slug...
So I just sat here in Salem tonight and had no idea there was an Obama rally? Bogus, I'd love to have seen the mutants that believe this garbage.
This guy's got a real record of distinction. First he redesigns the Air Force uniform to make them all look like Navy officers. The uniform was so hated getting rid of it was his replacement's first action. This is McPeak's "Executive" overcoat, and undoubtedly he has a garage-full of these in Boca waiting for their comeback.
Apparently McPeak was a Dole guy, and then "saw the light" and came out against Bush. Of course, he goes and supports the more leftish of the Democrat alternatives instead of any Republican. Perhaps he and Wesley Clark want to take high civilian leadership roles in the Pentagon so they can whistle while dismantling the system that keeps our world somewhat in order.
So McPeak went over the wall awhile back...that's ok...we got Mamet now, you can have this turkey. At least Mamet is a success.
"Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq? What we heard last night was the timidity of despair. - John McCain
in Obama administration is absolutely terrifying.
But we both know he most likely would be.
While I am certainly no fan of Wes Clark, McPeak is 10 times worse in my book.
Gives me the shivers.
None other than Saint Delano, of course. It's unfortunate that no one is willing to objectively look at the way FDR ripped his opponents to shreds and got away with it...
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would say "Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors." I would just say name one loyal American that the Senator has accused of being a traitor.
Won a debate in high school by pointing out that every example given my my opponent either did not involve McCarthy (a lot of HUAC incidents) or the basic facts had been confirmed by others.
you just know he's trying to pass off the Missus as the patriotic one. Dumb move, with Bill what else is new, and laughable as neither Obama nor the Missus has room in their make up for such chauvinistic, narrow feelings.
This invites the still mindless invocation of McCarthyism, which always eases the pain of thinking while providing a reflexive smear, the best kind.
It's great fun watching these thugs butcher each other with tactics reserved for Republicans, putting the shoe on the other foot so to speak. The rank and file are confused and angry, this is only supposed to happen to the other party and it wasn't so long ago the Clinton's were loved and defended and Obama was the saint bearing hope, the definition to be supplied by the truly hopeless.
The best is yet to come.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
It seems that we are always hearing, usually from leftists, that no one should "question their patriotism". Why it's almost UNPATRIOTIC to question someone's patriotism.
Except ... what if someone says, "God Damn America"? Hey, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt on policy differences - but "God Damn America". Anyone who says "God Damn America" repeatedly SHOULD have his patriotism questioned. And anyone who follows such a person for 20 years should have his patriotism questioned as well. Especially if they aggravate their lack of patriotism by saying that America deserved to be attacked on Sept 11 in addition to saying, "God Damn America".
I saw McPeak on the TV this morning. He spoke a few sentences that were supposed to com from the heart. He read every word of a piece of paper.
Bill is quite clearly attacking Obama's patriotism by johnt:
Reading and research are terrible things to waste. So I should be happy that Johnt is not wasting them.
Clinton, at that particular part oh his talk, was talking about the differences between John McCain and his wife. The very fact that the Obamists of the world seem to think that any sentence not including his munificence is sorm sort of slight against the deity could in some quarters be seen as a sign of insecurity.
How long before the Obamists will be insisiting that we place PBUH after every mention of Obama.
Or has New Yorks junior senator decided to give her delegates to Zell Miller
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