This is pretty slimy. Former General Wesley Clark, who ran for the Democrat Presidential nomination in 2004 is attacking John McCain’s military service. John McCain spent several years in a POW camp in Vietnam, so to criticize McCain’s service record is unconscionable.
From iht.com:
"He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall" as a wartime commander, the general said on CBS. Clark is mentioned as a possible Obama running mate, although he originally supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
When the interviewer, Bob Schieffer, noted to Clark that McCain had been shot down over Hanoi, Clark replied, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."
This is a huge tactical error on the part of the Obama campaign. Making derogatory remarks about McCain’s service to his country can and will create a backlash. Republicans in 2004, though critical of John Kerry, never cast any aspersions on the time he served in the military.
Obama, who has not been to Iraq, has had his foreign policy experience come into question. Having a surrogate throw rocks at a military war hero is bound to backfire.
Read the entire article on Clark.
Obama is now in damage control...
