McPeak’s uniform changes have mostly been undone by his successors. He now surfaces each presidential election cycle as a "top military advisor" to the Democrat contender lacking military acumen (those that do wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole.) In 2004 he advised John Kerry. Up until about yesterday he was an advisor to Barry Obama:
The jousting continued Friday when a top military advisor to Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, ridiculed Clinton's implication that she would offer voters the better credentials.Looks like McPeak will have to wait for the next election cycle for that long shot as National Security Advisor. Ironically, he would never have been the Air Force Chief of Staff it wasn’t for Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton (see the part about military acumen above), but loyalty isn't part of a Democrat's credo. Perhaps the NSC position has been promised to someone else but my guess is Hillary already learned McPeak was a hind end during her eight year Presidential apprenticeship.
The advisor, retired Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, said in a telephone interview that Obama has "real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-grouped, poll-directed, rehearsed gravitas."
He also said Obama "doesn't go on television and have crying fits; he isn't discovering his voice at the age of 60" -- references to Clinton's much-publicized show of emotion during the New Hampshire primary campaign and her speech after winning the contest in which she declared that she had "found my voice."
McPeak later retracted his remarks, and the Obama camp disassociated itself from them.
Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Feb 2, 2008
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