Reply #78: The funny thing about that Arkansas Republican meeting... [View All]

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was that the anti-Clarks kept quoting one or two sentences out of a speech that went on forever. It was such a small part of a speech that really had nothing to do with the administration, as you noted.

In context, it was so obviously just lip service. You don't go to a Republican meeting and say, "Geez, I hate you guys. Now listen to the rest of my speech."

I love how he was interpreted to be a die-hard Republican, campaigning for them, supporting them, blah, blah, even though he made the comment, "Look, in politics they told me--I don't know anything about politics now, I want to make that clear."

It seems so obvious that non-partisanship would be a job requirement for a general. I'm not sure why people just don't see that.

What have also been consistently taken out of context are his comments on CNN during the war coverage. Clark would make a comment regarding how he was interpreting Bush's plans and actions, and his detractors would take them out of context and say that they were Clark's beliefs and not his interpretations of what Bush was doing.

That's like me saying, "Reagan wanted to bomb Cuba" and someone else saying, "boxster recently made a statement where he said, 'bomb Cuba'".

We're just shocked that I want to bomb Cuba!

Not quite the same. Hehe.