Outraged Republicans are calling for Obama to repudiate a comment made on CBS' "Face the Nation" by General Wesley Clark, Obama's military adviser. Clark challenged the fact that many Americans automatically give McCain the nod in the ambiguous experience department by virtue of his storied military legacy. “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president," Clark said.
It was certainly an incredibly dumb thing to say. Clark should realize that there are far too many people incapable of suspending hysteria long enough to actually reason that there is nothing inaccurate about the statement. Perhaps sensing he was about to trod on sacred ground, Clark prefaced it by saying, "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."
I hate that you can't call that into question something as basic as this without offending millions of people. It's a true statement, and we should be able to have a reasonable discussion about qualifications.
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