Re: Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered

On Jul 7, 12:59 pm, Falstaff <jaxfalst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 7, 12:52 pm, 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
Died
> > > Wearing Uniform
>
> > > 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, 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."
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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
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."
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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
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.
>
> > 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?

General Clark does not have to kiss anyone's ass for stating the
obvious. Being a prisoner does not qualify you for commanding
experience.  Being in a coma for 2 years does not make you a medical
expert.