I have wondered since the celebrated incident between retired military officers Mike Holmes and Charlie Brown about Charlie Brown’s obsession regarding promoting his military service.

Charlie is having General Wesley Clark come to Roseville to help promote his campaign through a drive to support the troops.

We know that General Wesley Clark was recruited to screw up the 2004 primary by the Clintons and has been a top Liberal Democrat advisor for several years. Charlie apparently served under Clark in the gulf war.

Since Charlie has made his military service the primacy of his campaign, the recent revelations of Charlie’s anti-war activity have to be weighing heavily in his mind.

Is Wes Clark coming to Roseville to help Charlie obfuscate his anti-war activity? Brown has been remiss to address the issue of the effigy – his lack of a response suggests that claims of his anti-war activity including those reported by the Bee in 2006 are indeed true.

When you read what left-wing blog Blue America says about Charlie – this section attributed to Charlie Brown jumps out at you: “I asked Charlie to put himself in the shoes of a freshman congressman and tell us what he would be doing about the war now. One thing he said was that he would have signed on as a cosponsor to Jack Murtha’s re-deployment resolution (not one of the non-binding symbolic things). Only 9 freshmen have signed on as co-sponsors to either Murtha’s or Woolsey’s proposals, the first of which aiming to end escalation and the second of which aiming to end the war.” (Murtha’s proposal meshes with Brad Sherman and Barbara Lee’s public stance of pulling out of Iraq within 90 days a.k.a. surrender)

Charlie would like to be a cosponsor of the Murtha bill because he thinks Murtha’s credibility and impeccable military credentials make it clear that he supports the troops, just not the way the Bush Regime is misusing them.

General Wesley Clark has his own words of wisdom to add to the mix when he completely degrades John McCain’s military service: “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President.” – General Wesley Clark, Obama Advisor and Surrogate, June 29, 2008.

I might show up to Brown’s shindig and ask him what exactly he meant with those words: “General Clark – I was curious to know weather serving 5+ years as a POW or flying and aborting a helicopter mission represented a higher level of Vietnam era service?”. The real answer is any Republican military service means nothing to these people.

Charlie Brown is assembling an all-star team: Charlie’s Angels. The Drug Dealer, the Crooked Lawyer, the Congresswoman who buys stock in companies she votes to subsidize, the Anti-War/Gay Rights activist, Blue America and the Disgruntled General. I can hardly wait to see who else is on-line to join that cast.

Not a whole lot of Moderates in that coalition. Maybe we should forget about the effigy and ask Charlie to take the first step: “I admitted that I was powerless over the 4th Congressional District – the my life has become un-managable”.