Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered or Died Wearing Uniform

Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered or Died
Wearing Uniform

By Steve Young

Created Jul 6 2008 - 1:24pm


This Sunday morning, Philadelphia Inquirer Asst Editor, Kevin Ferris, once
again went talk radio all over the Philadelphia Inquirer opinion pages,
[1]
able to spin Gen. Wesley Clark's response to a question concerning John
McCain's readiness as president into a hyperbolic hit piece surmising that
Clark "denigrated the uniform" and that Barack Obama will "use the uniform
as needed, disgracing those who suffered or died wearing it."

Wow. Might as well pen Ferris in as Bill O'Reilly's fill in.

What Ferris chose to leave out was the context of Clark's response where
Face The Nation host, Bob Schieffer noted that Obama had not "ridden in a
fighter plane and gotten shot down." Clark said, ""Well, I don't think
riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be
president."

Nor did he include Clark's preface to his response, including..."I
certainly
honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to
hundreds
of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of
war."

Wow #2. Disgrace, thy name be honor. Or visa versa.

The Constitution is a wacky, kinda living, kinda not, do***ent that
explains
just what we Americans can get away with. It also frames the conditions
within which one can run for the position where one American can get away
with the most - President of the United States of America. And Clark's
comments were not a denigration of the uniform, but a reflection of the
do***ent that our troops have fought and died to protect for over 200
years.


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