Wesley Clark Can't Make Up His Mind...Again

I just found this item thanks to Evangelical Outpost:

"Well, I'm against abortion," [Clark] said in response to a question from a voter at the Catfish Place, hard by the highway in the hills of West Tennessee. "But there is a law of the land that comes from the Supreme Court, and that law is called Roe v. Wade. And I support the Supreme Court. I have to support the law."

Fair enough. You have to support the law. However, I believe he's trying to use the old "abortion is legal, so you can't oppose it" argument, which is flawed because laws aren't permanent.

I think you're all smart enough to figure out my line of reasoning, so I won't go into detail about how Roe v. Wade wasn't always a law and laws shouldn't necessarily change your deeply held beliefs, etc.

However, it gets more interesting when you look at this next quote:

Last month, when General Clark spoke to a Planned Parenthood forum in New Hampshire on the anniversary of the Roe decision, he said: "I want to thank Planned Parenthood for all that you do every day to protect the right to choose." He added, "These are your values. They are my values. And they are the values I defended for 34 years in the United States Army."

So, which is it, Weaselly? Are you a pro-lifer who respects the rule of law, are you pro-abortion and just too cowardly to admit it to every group you talk to, or are you an opportunistic sack of crap who bases his personal values on popularity? Hmmm...

I'm not one to jump to conclusions, but I seem to remember something else that Wesley "won't you be my neighbor" Clark said a while back. Let's see here...what was it?

Oh, yeah, now I remember:

"Life," Mr. Clark said in an interview with the Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire last week "begins with the mother's decision."     "I don't think you should get the law involved in abortion," he told the Union Leader. "It's between a woman, her doctor, her faith and her family and her conscience. You don't put the law in there."

And then, of course, there's this:

He also told the Union Leader that he would not appoint pro-life judges to the federal bench.     When asked how he would do this without applying a litmus test to the nominee, Mr. Clark explained, "You just work through what the judge has done and if you find guys who follow judicial and established precedent, you're not going to find a judge who is pro-life."

Interesting. What he's basically saying is that he's personally against abortion, but he doesn't think it's any business of the law, despite the fact that being pro-life usually means that you view abortion as MURDER. Are you against murder laws, Wesley?

At the same time, he thinks that no judge who believes in the right to life is competent to make decisions based on the law, but he identifies himself as pro-life and thinks that he's fit to choose the aforementioned judges. Hypocrisy, anyone?

I'm glad he's got no chance of winning the nomination.