Retired general claims Obama would not get security clearance

[Blue_Tires]

they are so over-the-top in their desperation it isn't even funny:




A retired Army general said today at a news conference sponsored by the Republican Party of Virginia that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't qualified to be Commander-in-Chief of the United States because he couldn't get top secret clearance.

Jerry Curry said Obama's past association with former anti-war radical William Ayers would prevent him from getting security clearance.

Curry, who is an African-American, spoke at an ethnic outreach news conference at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square.

If Barack Obama had been commander-in-chief of the forces in the Revolutionary War instead of George Washington "we'd still be a British colony," Curry said.

Ayers was a founder of the Weather Underground, which set off explosives in the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon the next year to protest the Vietnam War. The organization warned people to evacuate the buildings, and no one was injured.

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-29-0191.html

[WeDidIt]

1. TOTAL DESPERATION

They aren't even hiding the desperation any more. Just outright lying.

[ShortnFiery]

20. Yes, the PRIMARY criterion for a Security Clearance is NOT who you have interacted with

but that "you can NOT be blackmailed."

In Civilian Security Clearance circles, homosexual men and women can easily glean a Security Clearance as long as they are OPEN.

SOME military lifers are IMNSHO "delusional" to the point of corrupting their once lauded character.

Shame on this retired General - he KNOWS better. :grr:

[RollWithIt]

2. He's on the foreign relations committee... so he ALREADY HAS IT

God these people are idiots.

[ellacott]

13. Great point

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. You know the fabled oxymoron: military intelligence? Probably a

professional generals' son, too.

[MaineDem]

29. I was going to say that, too.

Absolute idiots!

And the press doesn't check.

[Blue_Tires]

31. +1

[Alter Ego]

Stupid asshole.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. If GWB had been commander-in-chief of the forces in the Revolutionary War instead of Washington....

We'd be Spanish colonies by now, never mind the Brits. :eyes:

[bullwinkle428]

4. Don Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein 25 years ago. How did he get one?

[ITsec]

10. Good point... and the evidence...

[bushisanidiot]

Obama ALREADY has security clearance!! He's on the foreign relations committee!!

what friggin' LIARS!!!!

[medicswife]

5. Bwahahahaa!!! How many days after becoming the official

Democratic Nominee, did Obama start getting National Security Briefings? Wasn't it like, two????

lmfao

These people are ridiculous.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[slampoet]

6. George Washington only had experienced ONE battle before he was commander and he lost that one.

[Owl]

7. Mr. Curry is obviously a dumb-ass.

[No Elephants]

8. Unless this tool outranked Powell, he needs to sit down and STFU.

[Terran]

9. I don't normally respond to anything this way, but...

"Whatever." :eyes:

[spanone]

11. yea, sure. they won't give the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES security clearance

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

[foo_bar]

25. yeap, the president's a clearance giver

No such background checks are required for Barack Obama's current position as a U.S. Senator, or for his possible future position as President of the United States. Senator Obama already has access to a good deal of secret intelligence information as a member of Congress, and as President he would not only have access to more of it but would also have the power to determine who else within the government might see it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/security.asp

Anyway the Constitution still affords the right of electing presidents (via the electoral college) without passing a urine test or whatever, and it's pretty nutso to think that the civilian commander in chief has to pass a military or intelligence background test (by his own Cabinet), but if this guy's really a general I guess no one's immune to stupid chain letters (not that major-generals are prized for their critical thinking abilities per se, with deference to Gilbert&Sullivan).

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. That's a laugh. Former UK Labour Wilson Prime Minister and other Labour ministers

were kept under covert surveillance by right-wing rogue elements in our clandestine services! And, alas, so far, by European standards, Obama couldn't yet be called even a Social Democrat, though we're hopeful.

You may remember the "Spycatcher" case in Australia, where our civil-service chief, a man called Armstrong, confessed to the court that he'd been "economical with the truth". I've always thought the prosecutor, now a right-wing politician, should have ruefully commented that even Pontuius Pilate expressed an interest in truth, however cursory.... "and you, Mr Armstrong, have sought to obfuscate it... Need I say more?"

[ShortnFiery]

14. This retired General is full of BUNK.

:eyes:

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

15. Quite possibly the stupidist thing they've said yet...

Good comments, folks! You nailed it.

[MurrayDelph]

28. This is one of the standard arguments they trot out

against EVERY Democratic candidate, along with calling them the "most liberal candidate ever"!

[GalleryGod]

16. I Love the Smell of Cooked Meat in the Morning...smells like..."

VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!

[Union Thug]

18. Take your meds, sir. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Hey, General Wizard

Obama isn't running to be general of the armies. If this were the revolutionary war, we wouldn't have a president, which is what he's running for. so comparing him to Washington isn't supposed to work anyway. Especially dunmass for a general to not understand that comparison.

[riverwalker]

21. Jerrry Curry ran for President?

http://www.curryforamerica.com/
WTF?

[FloridaGrl]

22. Desperate people

We'll see after he becomes CIC if he doesn't get clearance. I would love the media to revisit some of these people after the fact and shove their comments in their faces.

[Cass]

23. I wonder if McCain's association with G. Gordon Liddy has prevented him from getting a security

clearance.

These people are going nuts. Totally coming unglued.

[Erin Elizabeth]

24. Fucking A, HE'S A FUCKING SENATOR YOU DIPSHIT.

GOD, how stupid ARE these people?

He. Is. A. Current. United. States. Fucking. Senator.

He serves on committees in the U.S. SENATE which REQUIRE certain types of CLEARANCE, YOU DOUCHEBAG REPUBLICANS.

How do they eat without choking? How do they cross streets without getting run over? That kind of stupid should hurt.

[Jersey Devil]

33. Not only that, but on the Armed Services Committee (nt)

[MurrayDelph]

26. I've long been amazed

at the idiots that are used to determine whether someone should get clearance.

Almost 30 years ago, several college friends of mine and I were all working for the same Aerospace firm in Redondo Beach. One of our friends was up for a high-level security clearance. This government guy comes out to question us in Redondo Beach, in July, wearing a trenchcoat! The following is an approximation of the conversation one of my friends had with my friend (whom we will give the pseudonym Bernie).

Bernie: Hi, you must be the new Spook.
Spook (wearing the trenchcoat, indoors, in Southern California, in July): How could you tell? (Not joking)

Spook: So, your friend Carl, does he have any hobbies?
Bernie: Well, he likes Science Fiction.
Spook: Uh, huh. Well, would you say Carl has a firm basis in reality?
Bernie: Excuse me?
Spook: I mean, is he the type of guy who would want to take a ride on a rocket ship?
Bernie: Who wouldn't?
Spook: No, no, no. I mean, is he the kind of guy who would try to build that kinda stuff?
Bernie: THAT'S WHAT WE DO FOR A LIVING!

[eshfemme]

32. ROFLMAO!!! That is an awesome conversation!

I love how the spook stymied himself with his own idiocy.

[Higher Standard]

27. Neither would McCain, by those standards

See: Association with former domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy.

[AspenRose]

30. Hell, Palin would qualify too...AIP