file photo retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark is interviewed at his Little Rock, Ark., office. Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday, June 29, 2008, John McCain's military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief.
Democrat Barack Obama rejected a retired general's suggestion that Republican John McCain's military experience didn't necessarily qualify him to be president, as GOP surrogates lined up to label the remarks indecent and disrespectful.
A day after retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, now an Obama supporter, discussed McCain's experience as a Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam on a Sunday talk show, his remarks set off the pattern that has become familiar from innumerable earlier flaps over surrogate remarks during the presidential election year: The candidates, Obama and McCain, took the high road while the bare-knuckled language was left to their surrogates.
YouTube Video: Gen. Wes Clark on Face the Nation
Today's issue of bus and driver finds that former Democratic party presidential candidate and former General Wesley Clark has been cast asunder by the Obama campaign. Here's a statement from Obama spokesman Bill Burton on Wes Clark's controversial comments about McCain's military service. "As he's said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain's service, and of course he
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