Everybody admires John McCain’s service as a fighter pilot, his courage as a prisoner of war. There’s no issue there. He’s a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot — and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam — that doesn’t prepare you to be commander in chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn’t give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues. - Wesley Clark – 06.29.08
Now compare that statement with this one:
"War. War. I've been there. So has John Kerry. John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars. He's seen the flash of the tracers. He's lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a senator, he proved his physical courage under fire. And he's proved his moral courage too. John Kerry fought a war, and I respect him for that. And he came home to fight a peace. And I respect him for that, too. John Kerry's combination of physical courage and moral values, is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander-in-chief." - by Wesley Clark at the Democrat Convention in Boston, July 2004.
So much for Gen. Clark's and Obama's credibility. Don't think for a minute that Clark was acting as a renegade on Face The Nation. The Obama campaign is very well organized, and they know full well what their minions are going to say on these Sunday morning talk shows. Clark is sent out to do the dirty work, and Obama offers a tepid response that sort of rebukes it - but now really. Thus, the seed is planted in the public's collective mind just as it was when he made oblique comments about McCain's age. All part of the effort to redefine patriotism and tailor the term to suit Barack Hussein Obama.
