Hello Everyone:

One thing that really annoys me and makes me angry is hypocrisy. Just look at all of these baseless attacks on Gen. Clark that are going on right now where they are taking his comments about John McCain completely out of context:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15991

FOX NEWS VIDEO: John Kasich and Lanny Davis misrepresented & trashed Gen. Clark!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on July 3, 2008 - 12:23am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15949

Rush Limbaugh's hypocrisy and errors in attacking Gen. Clark on Monday, June 30!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on July 1, 2008 - 1:30am.

Here is Karl Rove's reckless, irresponsible, hypocritical, and insulting attack on Gen. Clark that he made on FOX News:

Watch Greta's interview with Karl Rove

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=1919055&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749 (09:35)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374643,00.html

Rove's Take: Gen. Clark-McCain-Obama Triangle

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: "Joining us live is Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush and now a FOX News contributor. Good evening, Karl.

KARL ROVE, FORMER BUSH AIDE, FOX CONTRIBUTOR: Good evening, Greta. How are you?

VAN SUSTEREN: Very well. So Karl, will this blow over, or will this statement by General Clark haunt Senator Obama's campaign?

ROVE: Well, look, today Senator Obama went out and obliquely rebuked General Clark. I mean, that was an outrageous comment by General Clark, who knows better than this. Shame on him. And today Senator Obama went out. I have to give him a B for speed. He waited for nearly 24 hours, letting this smear, this libel, lay out there. I give him a B-minus for the content. He didn't rebuke him directly, though he rebuked him indirectly. He wrapped it up in a little bit of whine (ph), though, saying that he, Senator Obama, had had his patriotism questioned. I'm not certain exactly what he's referring to..."

Karl Rove is a total and complete hypocrite. I do not hear anybody talking about this but the question that definitely has to be asked right now is why are people and the media NOT talking about what Karl Rove and what other high profile Republicans in the 2000 Bush campaign did to John McCain when they smeared him and his military record for real back in the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary?

Here is some credible documentation about this which just cannot be ignored:

1) Look at what John McCain's 2000 campaign manager Richard Davis said was done to McCain from the Bush campaign and from other Republican activists:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/

The anatomy of a smear campaign

By Richard H. Davis | March 21, 2004

"Having run Senator John McCain's campaign for president, I can recount a textbook example of a smear made against McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 presidential primary. We had just swept into the state from New Hampshire, where we had racked up a shocking, 19-point win over the heavily favored George W. Bush. What followed was a primary campaign that would make history for its negativity.

In South Carolina, Bush Republicans were facing an opponent who was popular for his straight talk and Vietnam war record. They knew that if McCain won in South Carolina, he would likely win the nomination. With few substantive differences between Bush and McCain, the campaign was bound to turn personal. The situation was ripe for a smear.

It didn't take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.

Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.

Thus, the "pollsters" asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that's not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign.

Some aspects of this smear were hardly so subtle. Bob Jones University professor Richard Hand sent an e-mail to "fellow South Carolinians" stating that McCain had "chosen to sire children without marriage." It didn't take long for mainstream media to carry the charge..."

2) Look at what The New York Times recalled about the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary where McCain's patriotism was questioned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/us/politics/19mccain.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin

Confronting Ghosts of 2000 in South Carolina

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: October 19, 2007

CHARLESTON, S.C. — "When Senator John McCain and his wife campaign in South Carolina these days, people pull them aside to apologize for what happened during the presidential primary here in 2000...

A smear campaign during the primary in February 2000 here had many in South Carolina falsely believing that Mr. McCain’s wife, Cindy, was a drug addict and that the couple’s adopted daughter, Bridget, was the product of an illicit union. Mr. McCain’s patriotism, mental well-being and sexuality were also viciously called into question..."

3) Here are more smears and questioning of his military service that John McCain received back in the 2000 South Carolina from the Bush campaign (which included hypocrite Karl Rove) and from other Republican activists who supported Bush in that primary:

http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_2000_republican_primary

The 2000 Republican Primary

McCain, Bush, and the Nadir of American Politics

Aaron D. Pendell

Mar 12, 2008

"However, the strategy pursued by the Bush campaign, though its members deny knowledge of executing it, produced one of the ugliest episodes in American politics. Senator McCain’s campaign chief described the underhanded tactics faced in the South Carolina primary, “Anonymous opponents used ‘push polling’ to suggest that McCain’s Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child.” The same inaccurate claim was distributed on fliers, surreptitiously handed out by teenagers who were anonymously paid to do so.

Similar materials were distributed claiming that the Senator’s wife was a drug addict, that the decorated Vietnam veteran was a traitor, that McCain was a homosexual, or that he was mentally unstable. Bush staffers had established plausible deniability for the spurious materials; and, when the McCain camp attempted to fight back with television spots comparing Bush to Bill Clinton, the effort backfired. Frustrated, McCain pulled the commercials and prohibited his staff from further use of negative tactics, but it was too late. Bush won the February 19, 2000, contest by 11 points..."

My conclusions to this post are the following:

1) The next Republican who attacks Gen. Clark over what he did NOT do to John McCain should be asked "what do you have to say about what Karl Rove, the 2000 Bush campaign, and what other Republican activists who supported Bush did John McCain back in 2000 when they really did smear him, question his patriotism, and when they questioned his military service?

2) The media should also be talking about this and they should be asking these questions whenever Gen. Clark is being talked about in a negative manner!

3) John McCain should demand public apologies from Bush, Karl Rove, the 2000 Bush campaign, and from all of the Republican activists who really did smear him back in the 2000 South Carolina primary BEFORE he mentions and tries to bring up as a campaign issue what Gen. Clark did NOT do to him!

4) The many spineless high profile Democrats who are looking the other way right now, who are running away from Gen. Clark out of political convenience for the moment, and who are not defending Gen. Clark when they know that he did NOT attack John McCain's military service should be ashamed of themselves. They are no better than the Republicans who looked the other way and who did not stand up for McCain back in 2000 because it would not have been politically convenient for them at the moment to cross Bush. Shame on all of them!

We can show our support for Gen. Clark right now by signing this petition from Jon Soltz of Votevets.org thanking Gen. Clark:

http://ga3.org/campaign/petitionclark

"Thank General Clark for His Straight Talk, Tell Him To Not Back Down

Sign our petition, thanking General Wesley Clark for his clarity and honesty on what it takes to lead this nation’s military and veterans.

Join 24,443 Americans in signing our petition!"

Please forward this information on so that many more people will know to bring up what the Bush campaign, Karl Rove, and what their Republican activist supporters really did to John McCain back in 2000 BEFORE they wrongly criticize Gen. Clark right now when he has only praised John McCain's military service and patriotism. People definitely need to see this hypocritical behavior coming from the many Republicans who are attacking Gen. Clark for something that he did NOT do!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
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Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.

http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!