One has to wonder what type of bizzaro world we have entered when an Obama surrogate can assail the executive qualifications of John McCain. Albeit true, Senator McCain is no poster-boy for those of us who truly value freedom its pureist forms, but few can assert with any degree of seriousness that Senator McCain served with honor, indeed heroically in the face of unimageaable pain and torture. Regardless of this, Wesley Clark, the former NATO commander and failed 2004 presidential candidate has assailed McCain in a matter that can only be interpretted as a slight against all Americans who have served their country, and even those of us who haven't.

According to Clark, McCain's credits are of no great importance:

"I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."
-Wesley Clark

Perhaps General Clark is right, being shot down while flying combat missions in the service of your country is no great feat and apparently refusing to bow to almost un yielding pressure while captive in an enemy POW camp speaks nothing to a person's character either...what exactly is the message to all the other former POWs out their?

General Clark also derided McCain's experience on the grounds that his military service encompassed no executive responsibility and thus can be completely discounted. By General Clark's own reckoning only those military personal who held executive authority have experience that would qualify for the presidency. By this manner of circular logic only three president's in American history (Washington, Grant, Eisenhower and maybe Jackson) were qualified for the office.

Anyone who is a champion of the Constitution and liberty knows that there is no shortage of material upon which to attack the lackluster John McCain, yet this is best Obama's generals can muster? An attack which can only boomerang on the equally unqualified and unspectacular Barack Obama.

Links:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/america/campaign.php