The Red and Black

If the polls suggested it would be to his advantage, Obama would be flinging mud all over McCain's service record. The fact that most Americans would find this appalling is the reason he is not already doing so. I do not believe his demurring on this issue can be attributed to Obama's noble nature, but rather is another example of his shrewd political strategy to hold himself up as the 'change' candidate.

Robert Masino for President in 2008!

"The Democrats are not an "actual opposition party" because their front-runner dares to treat his opponent's war record with respect instead of vitriol and cattiness?"

I know Bill and while I agree with him that the Democrats have failed to ever offer good critique of their opponents (largely because they aren't too different from them for the past 2 decades), John McCain doesn't have much of a "war record."

He finished next to last in his class at Annapolis and was shot down after a handful of missions after operating a fighter-bomber against peasants using cheap AKs and 3rd-rate materiale. That's not an impressive war record.


Yes, he suffered a lot (not as much as kids killed by cluster bombs he dropped, maybe), but millions of Americans who served in Vietnam and tens of millions of Indochinese did. That doesn't make him qualified for President, as a much better soldeir, General Wesley Clarke, pointed out.