Barack Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton today disavowed comments critical of John McCain's military credentials from prominent Obama supporter Wesley Clark.

"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," Burton said in a statement.

Clark, the former commander of NATO, 2004 presidential candidate and 2008 possible for veep, said on Sunday that McCain's Vietnam war experience did not give him any special qualifications to be president.

"I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," Clark said on CBS's Face the Nation program.

He saluted McCain's courage as a prisoner of war, but said that McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility...That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded wasn't a wartime squadron."
He also said that McCain "hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall."