In “If Clark is the VP-choice, Here are Some Contrasts with McCain” (August 16, 2008), there was a list of contrasts to John McCain, each one of which could have been elaborated upon to fill an entire article. Some were military, others character, still others “civilian.” By all those accounts McCain pales in comparison to Clark.
It could have been added that Clark had several appointments that required Senate approval. McCain never did. Clark was approved by a voice vote of the Republican-controlled Senate to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe. John McCain was part of that Republican-controlled Senate.
But, the selection of Wesley Clark as Barack Obama’s VP running mate will have another consequence that the McCain camp could not survive.
Inevitably, inexorably, indubitably the military records of these two men will be opened, examined, sliced and diced and compared by the press. Enormous pressure will build on McCain to sign a release form that allows access to all his military records, a step he has never taken.
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