Barack Distances Himself From Wesley Clark's Idiocy

Barack Obama formally rejected Gen. Wesley Clark's recent comments yesterday that questioned whether Sen. John McCain's military experience qualified him to be commander in chief. Politik Ditto, a black conservative Democratic blogger who supports Sen. McCain for president, writes: "Barack Obama may be the most liberal senator in the entire Congress, but that doesn't make him a dummy. When you have no military experience yourself, while knowing little about foreign policy and a surrogate goes off the deep end dissing an opponent that happened to be a POW, the last thing you want to do is be associated with that kind of in-your-face stupidity. Apparently, Obama wants the voters to dig and find out for themselves just what a partisan, left-wing loon of a politician he really is. Good thinking Barack! What they don't know won't hurt ya."

My response: Gen. Clark's question wasn't per se unreasonable. One can argue that Sen. McCain's experience as a prisoner of war alone doesn't provide the necessary experience to oversee the country's national security policies. Fair point, and Gen. Clark has the credentials to make such a point. However, it is unreasonable when Gen. Clark is backing a guy who has zero military experience to be Commander-In-Chief, and who has only been in the U.S. Senate for three years. Meanwhile, Sen. McCain is former Navy, a POW, and is the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. Obama was wise to distance himself, although I believe that it was a strategy to get the meme out there.