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Article: The Qualities of a President
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 3, 2008
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Are we now engaging in reverse Swift-boating? Have we moved from
tolerating the defamation of heroes such as Sen. John F. Kerry and
his Vietnam War comrades to being intolerant of legitimate questions
about the relevance of Sen. John McCain's military career to the
presidency?
Wesley K. Clark, a distinguished retired Army general, is
lambasted because he looked at Mr. McCain's active-duty experience
as a naval aviator and concluded that it had little to do with
being president. Mr. McCain, who was near the bottom of his class
at the Naval Academy, led a flight squadron for a limited period, a
command that has been held by thousands of other talented Americans.
He is properly ...
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