Re: Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered

On Jul 7, 12:52=A0pm, cmdr buzz corey <cmdr-buzz-co...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 7, 11:06 am, "Gandalf Grey" <valino...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered or
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ed
> > Wearing Uniform
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> > By Steve Young
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> > Created Jul 6 2008 - 1:24pm
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> > This Sunday morning, Philadelphia Inquirer Asst Editor, Kevin Ferris,
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nce
> > 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
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hat
> > Clark "denigrated the uniform" and that Barack Obama will "use the
unif=
orm
> > as needed, disgracing those who suffered or died wearing it."
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> > Wow. Might as well pen Ferris in as Bill O'Reilly's fill in.
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> > What Ferris chose to leave out was the context of Clark's response
wher=
e
> > Face The Nation host, Bob Schieffer noted that Obama had not "ridden
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 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
b=
e
> > president."
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> > Nor did he include Clark's preface to his response, including..."I
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ainly
> > honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to
hund=
reds
> > of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner
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of
> > war."
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> > Wow #2. Disgrace, thy name be honor. Or visa versa.
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> > The Constitution is a wacky, kinda living, kinda not, do***ent that
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lains
> > 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
aw=
ay
> > 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
y=
ears.
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> Yet Clark stood at the last simple-minded dummycrat convention and
> expounded mightely about the military service of John Fraud Kerry and
> how that meant he would be a great President. Yet we know of the fraud
> of John Kerry and his military service and the denigrating of his
> fellow vets in front of Congress after he came home.



     Kerry served during Vietnam, just like McCain and Gore and Duke
Cunningham and Jim Webb and Jimmy Carter. Where was Cheney and Bush
and Rush and Hannity and O'Reilly - and you?