Wesley Clark Sticks Army Boot In Mouth

Retired Gen. and Barack Obama supporter Wesley Clark, said Sunday on Face The Nation that John McCain's military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief.

Clark has made such grumblings for several weeks and finally had a national audience in which he could officially stick his military boot in his mouth.

"In the matters of national security policy making, it's a matter of understanding risk," he told Bob Schieffer on CBS' "Face the Nation." "It's a matter of gauging your opponents and it's a matter of being held accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. 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.

"He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn't held executive responsibility," Clark said. "That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded _ that wasn't a wartime squadron."

And what praytell, does Obama have in the way of experience at this level? What executive responsibility has he had? For whom has he been 'held accountable'? Which large Navy squadron did Barack Obama command during wartime or any other time? Toy boats in the bathtub don't count.

Wesley Clark did not help Obama's case. The only thing he accomplished (besides looking like a fool) was to remind voters again of the vast gulf in the way of experience between Obama and McCain.

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