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- smartguy4932, on 07/02/2008, -1/+43I'm done with Digg and Politics.
- qxrt, on 07/02/2008, -6/+35Wait...did McCain ever say that military service WAS necessary for the Presidency? I must have missed it...link please? I know he touts it as an advantage, but I've never heard of him refer it to it as a prerequisite.
- jepaco, on 07/01/2008, -12/+27Equally important is McCain's dishonest response to what General Clark actually said.
- gtluke, on 07/02/2008, -1/+14i feel the need to digg this more than once
- Murdats, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11the fact that you think that the dissemination of information has no impact on some ones public campaign for the highest political position 'provesthat' YOU have no concept of reality.
it just happens that youtube is one of the most popular platforms for information distribution. - TheInformer, on 07/02/2008, -0/+12Coming to Digg for a rational, cogent, serious discussion of the facts is something you can no longer do. Disagree with the myrmidons and you are "nanny nanny boo boo-ed". Lately it feels like I'm back in junior high school when I read the posts here.
- gtluke, on 07/02/2008, -3/+13makes digg look really stupid as a populous
bunch of sheep - vexingmodstwo, on 07/02/2008, -4/+13McCain has never said anything different. Why is this a story?
- greenlion, on 07/02/2008, -3/+11This is slightly unrelated, but last week I met a Navy Captain who was a POW in the same North Vietnamese prison as John McCain. McCain was actually his flight instructor. This captain described how the adversity the prisoners faced stretched them to their limits and made them stronger in the end.
I'm a Democrat, but all I'm saying is the ability to deal with adversity CAN be considered a qualification. - gtluke, on 07/02/2008, -6/+14your logic has no place in obamunism
- Chaotyk, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7...sandals.
- SemiSarcastic, on 07/02/2008, -4/+10Hehe...you people and your political affiliations. I laugh at this veil form of entertainment disguised as actual news for diggers
here I go
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! - koonchu, on 07/02/2008, -2/+8I'm NOT a McCain fan, but I gotta point out how the article deliberately makes him sound like a yokel: "John McCain said that he 'absolutely don't believe' that military service was necessary for the presidency." The writer could have easily written "John McCain said he *doesn't* believe..."
- gryphon50, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6you started out semi-coherent, then went right off the deep end.
- MikeFallopian, on 07/02/2008, -2/+7In 2003 McCain said that military service is not REQUIRED for the presidency. Right now he is arguing that his service is a factor that makes him more QUALIFIED for the presidency. Those positions are not contradictory. More cynical, manufactured outrage that detracts from the real issues.
- TheInformer, on 07/02/2008, -4/+9Facts only get in the way of the Messiah. Abandon them.
- sockpuppets, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Sockpuppets '08.
- pintomp3, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5does that mean gitmo detainees would make great presidents too?
- warlax27, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4So true! If I'm looking to read about politics I'm going to read it from cnn.com or some other souce that is not some guy sitting in front of his computer screen trying to propagate for obama or mccain.
- Chaotyk, on 07/02/2008, -2/+6Do you know what the word "banter" means? Because the way you used it in that sentence doesn't really seem appropriate.
- gtluke, on 07/02/2008, -9/+13digg is getting really boring with the obamunism
we need to ban articles form thinkprogress, moveon, dailykos, and huffington
its such mindless banter. BORING - charm803, on 07/02/2008, -2/+5If military service had been a requirement, Bush would have never been President.............
OR we would have been better organized in going to Iraq and probably would have found Bin Laden in Afghanistan by now.
D'oh!
(When Bush deliberately skipped military service, does that mean he's not patriotic?) - dustyshadow, on 07/02/2008, -7/+10Um that is not "echoing Clark's comments." Stupid article. Wasn't Clark paid a bunch of money to endorse Obama?
- maz2331, on 07/02/2008, -6/+9No but it is a plus.
Still... I don't like McCain, nor Obama.
This sucks. - fadeout, on 07/02/2008, -7/+10His campaign is just getting sad. I would have voted for him in 2000, had I been given the opportunity, I am not just a Democrat partisan by any means... but he clearly has no concept of the internet and youtube. 20 years ago a politican could just say whatever the hell he wanted and he probably wouldn't get lying. Doesn't work these days. That reality just isn't sinking in.
- alapoet, on 07/01/2008, -21/+24FLIP FLOP flip flop FLIP FLOP flip flop FLIP FLOP flip flop
- nedzeve, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4Can we hold you to that?
- Olfster, on 07/02/2008, -2/+5Flip Flop? He forgot. Is it not okay to forget at his age? Give the old guy a break. He will be the oldest person ever elected to president if he wins. Jeezzz!
- gryphon50, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3there's alot of truth in that rant.
- mrsteveman1, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I think its bed time for a certain mister curley....
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Weasly Clark needs to just shut up. Military service may not be REQUIRED to be president, as we saw with draft dodger Bill Clinton, but it is certainly desirable. Duty, Honor, Courage, Conviction and Discipline are desired traits in EVERY profession. Where was all this dismissal of military service when John "reporting for duty" Kerry was running for president? Liberals were outraged -- OUTRAGED, I say -- when the Swiftboat Veterans showed Kerry to be a self-serving coward.
- mecharabbit, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3Whatever. Who is to say that Obama can't be the best strategic commander-in-chief ever, if service in uniform is not an implicit requirement for the job?
- maz2331, on 07/02/2008, -4/+6Nobama.
- WTFppl, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4^^It's the idiots that are helping McCain with his campaign who helped make this story possible.^^
- jjb123, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I am done with politics in general this year.
- TheInformer, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4Because the posters are grasping at anything they can possibly find to discredit McCain, pure and simple. There is no other reason, no logical commentary, no true want to have a Socratic discussion of the facts.
- BitDrifter, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2McCain's military experience is and always will be a valid item to put on the list of why he is qualified to be president. Does it mean it alone automatically makes him qualified to be president? Absolutely not. Does one have to have military experience to be president? Absolutely not (Which is what McCain was saying, sorry no flip-flop in saying that). Can it be an item on a list of which to say I am more qualified to be president than you? Yes!
McCain stayed a POW longer than he had to, they were going to let his ass go, and he said hell no, send those who came here before me home first. So they kept him, and not just for months because of that decision but years. Is that a valid item to put on a list of which to say I am more qualified to be president than you? Damn Straight! - hivoltage815, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4I have 2 comments on this one. First is everyone took what Clark said out of context and the fact that it was news is ridiculous. Second is that what Clark was saying was a terrible argument anyways. Clark was basically saying that McCain can't bank on his military service as a qualification to be president. But McCain has a very distinguished political career too, much more so than Obama and is clearly more experienced than Obama, despite what your views are on either of them. Therefore, whatever Clark was arguing just didn't make sense. It's just fruitless to attack his experience.
- vexingmodstwo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Riiight... Clark's comments are exactly like McCain's in 2003? Ooookay.
- Matri, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4He flip flopped because he's the one who said Obama was not suited for presidency BECAUSE he did not have military service.
- pintomp3, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4i take it you voted for kerry over bush then.
- hivoltage815, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Don't get me wrong, I hate John McCain. I am just saying he is a high ranking senator, therefore distinguished while Obama has spent about 15 minutes in federal government.
Let's go after him, not his military service or experience. - TheInformer, on 07/02/2008, -7/+9Equally important is the dishonest representation of what McCain said.
- trogdoor, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2@Matri Quote?
- masterm1nd, on 07/02/2008, -4/+6WTF, is it not dishonest that this whole issue is a strawman? Did McCain ever say service is required for presidency?
- Barackalypse, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2That isn't anywhere in the article. I was going to say its a shoddy bit of jounralism, except it isn't journalism, its propaganda and partisan hackery of the highest order (well, not quite, but it sounds more dramatic that way).
- greenlion, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I agree that McCain's policies are not sound. That's why I am an Obama supporter.
However, it isn't fair to completely dissociate the struggles of being a POW and the struggles of being a leader. In both cases, one must persevere and work for the best. - jameskong15, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2***** us for digging up a story that places McCain into a situation where he is either a hypocrite or stands by his word? Sorry, I don’t randomly follow any douche running for office based off their talk alone. I prefer to test them before I vote. FISA was one of Obama’s tests. McCain accepting his previous comments that military experience is not a qualifier to be president is one of his.
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