I was "assumed to be in the tank" for Obama

If anyone has read my diaries over the past few years, they would hardly accuse me of being in the "tank" for Obama,

I literally and figuratively was in the "tank" for General Wesley Clark when the primaries started and he kept teasing about he was "looking at jumping in". But then I have been a supporter of General Clark for decades, I first met him as a Staff Sergeant in the Army while at NTC and he was a Colonel and Commander of the OPFOR Brigade. I worked for him, and he showed his leadership skills on the ground at NTC, in his care for his soldiers, their families, their lives, theior schools, their shopping possibilities, entertainment, etc, he realized then that a soldier needed a happy family to be a happy and competent soldier capable of doing the hard day to day job of training for combat.

We drove all kinds of tracked vehicles Sheridan tanks mocked up to look as if they were Russian BRMs, we drove real Russian MTLBs, we had M113's Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's) M60 Battle Tanks and then  came the new M-1 Abrams.

I had a second opportunity to serve under Brigadier General Wesley Clark's command again at NTC when I was activated for desert Storm with Georgia's 48th brigade and we were sent to NTC for certification as being battle ready for deployment as the round out Brigade for the 24th Infantry Division.

The Army sent National Guard Brigades from Lousiana, Arkanasas and Georgia, we also had support units from Oklahoma, New York Ranger Units, a very large contingent, the largest in Army history to ever train at NTC, they also had a dual role.

The Army recreated the Iragi Defense Berms the forces in the Middle East would encounter when General Schwarzkopf started the ground invasion. General Clarks mission was to use the National Guard units to attack these defenses in every way possible so that when the actual invasion bagan the least amount of American lives would be lost, or injured in the ensuing combat. We attacked those berms dain in and day out for weeks, accomplishing two things at once, our own readiness training and what worked and what didn't on the berms. He did it with the largest cluster fuck in Army history and he did it and he did it well. We all know what a success the war itself was in 1991, four days of ground war. Granted the air war, bombing lasted weeks before, but tank to tank and man to man it was a success that is without peers.

A large part of it due to General Clarks work at NTC. With a bunch of rag tag National Guard units, that the Army did not want to use as round out units in 1990/1991, now in 2001 they grabbed every National Guard unit they could find, and Sec of Defense Rumsfeld and VP Cheney then sec of defense, in 1990 who wanted nothing to do with the National Guard units in a "real war".

So like most voters I listened to the other candidates  JRE and his message, Barack Obama at Selma in Jan 2007 sounded like Bobby, John and Martin all rolled into one, you could hear the echo's of the 60s when he spoke, but then that Barack disappeared from January 2007 until January 2008 so I went to Hillary Rodham Clintons campaign with General Clark, I joined the Steering Committee for Military and Veteran for Hillary and have worked extensively here in South Carolina for Hillary, then we had the vote and the week that people are still talking about, the beginning of the end of her campaign due to Bill's words about race, it wasn't blatant but here in the south it usually isn't, just veiled enough to be there.

Then Super Tuesday hit and the Campaigns strategy of wrapping it up hit the "proverbial brick wall" it didn't happen and then the Barack movement hit high gear, now it's just a matter of when Hillary concedes the race to Barack not if.

I wish it was different, but it ain't  this is politics, and she chose the wrong game plan, and Barack and his team chose the right one, and the aucaity of "Hope" appears to be what people want, they want 1968 again, they want to believe America can be better than it has been for the past 7 years.

Was the 90's the best years ever, no, they were good and I haven't been living a dream life, I worked thru the 70s, 80s and 90s most of it in an Army uniform, so other than general Clark I haven't been in a "tank" for anyone.

I have said it before I will work for whomever the democratic Party nominates for President, it has to be better than John McCain and 4 more years of a continued Bush agenda.

I think and listen, I also evolve just as the politics of the democrats have, after waiting for Clark and nothing I joined the Biden team  when he went nowhere and Clark went to Clinton so did I, I can just see thru the windshield and the fact is it is raining Obama across the nation.

For these assumptions:

Owllwoman, whenever I read those comments... (4+ / 0-)
 ...about how the Clintons are the reason that liberalism and progressivism failed for a time and brought us the so-called Republican Revolution and later Bush, I can't help but wonder how much political history those commenters have lived through or studied.
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And yet, we live at a Democratic political website where that one bright spot is now soaked in mud from commenters willing to do and say anything to advance one particular Democrat.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

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