Bill Clinton is No Joe McCarthy
Recently, Bill Clinton’s remarks about Barrack Obama caused A top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama compared former President Bill Clinton’s remarks seeming to question Obama’s patriotism to those made by Joseph McCarthy.“It sounds more like McCarthy,” retired four-star General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, who also is a campaign co-chair, said after a rally today in Salem, Oregon.
McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff who served under Bill Clinton and former President George H.W. Bush, said he didn’t know what Bill Clinton’s intentions were when he made the remark.
“But I’m disappointed in the statement,” he said. “I think Bill Clinton is, or ought to be, better than that.”
Phil Singer, a Clinton campaign spokesman, called the comparison with McCarthy “absurd.”
“We respect General McPeak’s service, but he is clearly misinterpreting what President Clinton said, and some might even say he is intentionally doing so to help the Obama campaign’s desperate effort to divert attention away from its recent political troubles,” Singer said.
I can tell you right now that it is absurd to compare a failed president like Bill Clinton who had sex while in office with a brave and heroic patriot like Joseph McCarthy who fought to keep our country clean of undue Communist influence. Its very trendy in Hollywood now to decry McCarthy, but that’s because he helped clean up Hollywood. However, I can tell you that a lot of our efforts to stop the Islamist terrorist campaign owes a lot to Senator Joe. For more information check out:
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