Service With A Smile

Strange days, strange days we're seeing.

Virginia Democrat Jim Webb became the latest Obama surrogate ( number eight by my count) to denigrate and attack John McCain's war service.

Amplifying on ex-General Wesley Clark's remarks that McCain was "untested and untried' and that getting shot down in an airplane was no qualification to be president,Webb appeared on resident lunatic Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC warning McCain to "calm down' and to "take politics out of military service", while referencing the recent speech on patriotism by The Chosen One:



Remarks like these coming from people like Wesley Clark and Jim Webb would be absolutely laugh-out-loud-funny if they weren't so serious about it.

Wesley Clark, as I've mentioned before made a huge deal out of his own military service during his farcical 2004 bid for the Democratic nomination, back when the Democrats were looking for simply anyone with military experience to attempt to counteract the very real perception that they were anti-military and weak on issues of national defence. It was Wesley Clark who was chosen to introduce that year's Democrat nominee, John Kerry and made a speech that devoted almost a full ten minutes to Kerry's Vietnam service.

And speaking of Kerry....remember his acceptance speech and "I'm John Kerry, reporting for duty"? Remember his constant references to those famous three Purple Hearts?

I may have missed it, but I don't recall any Democrats criticizing Kerry for constantly touting his service record.

And as for Jim Webb, this is the same politician who traded extensively on his own military record while campaigning against George Allen in Virginia, and even publicly used his son's military service in Iraq as campaign fodder, wearing his son's combat boots to campaign appearances. Go to Jim Webb's website and you will find no less than three long paragraphs devoted to his military service.

By contrast, John McCain barely mentions his military record, and alludes to it mainly in the context of his career in public service. Nor does he ever mention his son Jimmy, who's serving in combat as a Marine in Iraq or his son Jack, who's graduating from Annapolis this year.

What Obama is pulling is the same thing he has been pulling throughout the campaign...getting his surrogates to slime the opposition and then break dancing away from the mess with that smarmy little grin as though he weren't involved.I doubt it's a coincidence that so many of Obama's running dogs have coordinated an attack on McCain's military service at the same time. It's on the Agenda.

It's the Season of the Witch for the Democrat party, when Orwellian Newspeak is the language d'jour and nothing - nothing - is off limits or below the belt and no lies or hypocrisy are too gross to swallow when it comes to stealing the Grand Prize.

The only thing McCain has had to say about this to date is a mild response that he's proud of his military record and that it's part of his long career in public service...which unfortunately tells me that he may not have what it takes to make it into the White House.He's still wallowing in the illusion that this is going to be an above board honorable campaign on the issues. He hasn't yet figured out that these people are out to destroy him personally.

If John McCain had just a kinky streak of Ronald Reagan in him he'd flash a ghost of The Gipper's trademark grin and destroy these people with a witty little soundbite about what a difference four years makes, politics being politics, but that he wasn't going to hold Obama's lack of military experience against him and that perhaps it's not an issue the Democrats really want to raise anyway.

The whole thing about McCain's military record is not about deifying somebody because they got shot down in an airplane anyway, which is what people like Obama, Clark and Webb would have you believe.

It's about how McCain behaved after he was shot down, and the way he conducted himself under extreme adversity.

Or to put it another way, it's about character, that magic word that seems to affect the Obama campaign like garlic does a vampire.

I have my differences with John McCain, but if he actually is the patriot he seems c to be, the last thing he ought to be able to stomach is to leave our beloved Republic in the hands of pimp weasels like these.

Politics is war waged by another means, and McCain had better figure out how to fight it to win.