He's seen the flash of the tracers. He's lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a senator, he proved his physical courage under fire. And he's proved his moral courage too.
That was Gen. Wesley Clark's 2004 Democratic Concention speech in praise of John Kerry's military experience. Same guy, different take on a different senator:
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark stuck to his guns today, insisting that Sen. John McCain's experience as a POW made him a true American hero but did not qualify him to be commander-in-chief.
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Clark, who described himself as "someone who came home from Vietnam on a stretcher," said being in combat doesn't necessarily qualify someone to be president.
"It depends on which level you served," Clark told "GMA."
Perhaps the general can compare for us the "level of service" of Kerry and McCain. I think Obama has found his running mate!
