Reply #5: I wrote her... you should, too

[Clark2008]

"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands of 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." Clark continued: "But he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in Air -- in the Navy that he commanded, it wasn't a wartime squadron. He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn't seen what it's like when diplomats come in and say, 'I don't know whether we're going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it publicly?' He hasn't made those calls, Bob." (Repeated twice more).

Ms. Wall,

I was a reporter for 12 years and a senior staff reporter for seven of those years. If I had a reporter who read the above comment and still believed that retired Gen. Wesley Clark was “dissing” Sen. John McCain’s service, I would have insisted to the editor that the reporter in question be fired on the basis that she has no reading comprehension skills.

Remedial reading, Ms. Wall, instead of knee-jerk reactionism based on the mistaken belief that you should carry Republican water, would do you and anyone having to listen to your pretzel-twisted logic a world of good… or don’t you realize your hypocrisy in “dissing” a retired general by trying to save McCain’s rear?

By the way, Clark was absolutely correct: Serving in a war does not make one necessarily qualified to be president anymore than writing for a right-wing rag makes one a real journalist.

Sincerely,

Me.