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Why Isn't John McCain's Military Record Fair Game?

By Chanel for Obama - Jun 30th, 2008 at 2:09 pm EDT

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Retired Gen. Wesley Clark spoke out again on the fact that John McCain's military service, although honorable, does not qualify him to be president. And herein is where all the outrage began. The right wing feigned massive outrage at the comments and journalists collectively hissed and gasped at Gen. Clark for even suggesting such a thing. Sen. Obama himself even distanced himself from the comments that Gen. Clark made earlier in his patriotism speech.
But my question is this. Why isn't Sen. McCain's military record fair game if that's what he's basing his campain squarely on? Why can't the American people question his military record? Why can John McCain, along with John McCain's campaign, and anyone who is fully backing John McCain speak on his military record, but the second someone decides to question that same record or shines a light of truth on John McCain's actual military service (thank you Gen. Wesley Clark), it's a problem. A BIG one. Why? And while all this commotion is going on, Sen. McCain continues to hide a large chunk of his military record, so we still don't know the whole story. So is this how they are gonna run his campaign? Feigning outrage, whenever John McCain's military record is questioned? Accusing the people who do so of "attacking" an American war hero? This reeks of dishonest practice and shadyness, for lack of a better term, on the part of the entire McCain campaign on the very "military service" that they're running on.
I don't know about anyone else, but this "don't even THINK ABOUT questioning John McCain's military service" business is becoming MAD SUSPECT to me. If John McCain is gonna run on that platform, then he and his campaign need to be more forthcoming about it. The fact that people can't question it makes it look like they have something to hide. Gen. Wesley Clark should be commended for speaking the truth.

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