12:41 p.m. e-mail from the Barack Obama campaign:"As he's said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain's service, and of course he rejects yesterday's statement by General Clark," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

12:56  pm e-mail from RPOF: “As a former Naval officer, I am dismayed at General Clark’s comments and appalled at Barack Obama’s refusal to reject those statements.  While Obama publicly calls for change, his campaign has signaled that it is business as usual, saying anything to get elected and allowing false attacks to stand.  I urge the Obama campaign and General Clark to do as John McCain has done: put their country first and put aside the empty rhetoric and hurtful statements,” said a statement from Former Lieutenant Glenn Boggs, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (Class of 1968) and a former engineering officer of an ocean-going minesweeper.