Re: Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered

On Jul 7, 12:06=A0pm, "Gandalf Grey" <valino...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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,
onc=
e
> again went talk radio all over the Philadelphia Inquirer opinion pages,
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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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t
> Clark "denigrated the uniform" and that Barack Obama will "use the
unifor=
m
> 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
certai=
nly
> honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to
hundre=
ds
> 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
expla=
ins
> 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
yea=
rs.
>
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their
> spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore
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> government to its true principles. =A0It is true that in the meantime we
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> suffering deeply in spirit,
> and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous
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> debt. =A0But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
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> back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles
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 at
> stake."
> -Thomas Jefferson

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