Barack "Corleone" Obama

One of the truisms of political campaigns is that candidates send out surrogates to make the tough jabs at their opponents, and then deny that the campaign had anything to do with it.

General Wesley Clark is the liberal's general, and a senior advisor to the Obama campaign. He is trotted out whenever the left wants someone in uniform to make their points. Yesterday, General Clark went after John McCain's qualifications to be President. he said that John McCain had never held an executive command in wartime conditions (John McCain commanded the largest air squadron in the Navy, but not during wartime). He hasn't "ordered the bombs to fall". He further said that getting shot down over Vietnam does not qualify him to be President. It was a revolting performance. George McGovern, John J. Rockefeller and others have made similar "hits". It is no accident.

Do the Democrats really think this is a winning strategy - to attack McCain's decorated military record? If the Democrats are going to run on the issue of Senator McCain's experience and military record then they've already lost. Every time they make statements like this they accentuate Barack Obama's lack of experience in both public and private service - made even more stark when compared to Senator McCain.

Today, speaking in Independence, Missouri, Barack Obama said, "I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine." It reminded me a great deal of the scene in The Godfather when Al Pacino sits innocently in church while his soldiers, following his orders, assassinate the key leaders of the other New York crime families to consolidate power for the Corleone's.