You’re absolutely right.

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What Wesley Clark said today about McCain’s military service was so low, that even some on the left recoiled in shame. Even Obama had to denounce it.

Clark said:

“He hasn’t held executive responsibility,” he said. “That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron.” He continued, “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”

And Obama has? Some democrats like Andrew Sullivan caught the implication here that it was McCain’s incompetence that got him shot down.

John Aravosis, writing that “getting shot down, tortured, and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience.” How low is that?

Back in April, Sen. Jay Rockefeller essentially denounced McCain for being a fighter pilot: “What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people.”

Earlier this month, Gore Vidal questioned McCain’s war record in a New York Times Magazine interview: “Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?”

Democrats should keep this up. It helps McCain immensely.

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I think for most people, it’s pretty obvious it was done for political reasons.

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But, it depends on the man or woman as well. FDR didn’t meddle much in military planning and we were better off for it. LBJ did and we suffered greatly. As a military man and politician, Churchill as good and bad depending on the war and his experience. He was what the British needed in WW2 although Eisenhouer ignored him militarily oftten. Bush Senior wasn’t very good in his not going to Bagdad and getting Saddam’s head on a pike in 1991 like he should have letting hoim fester into a real ronblem oft his son later. Lincoln had picked horrible Generals at the beginning of the Civil War because of his inexperience and the Genrals just walked all over him. Wilson was a whack job elitist Univerisity President and good for nothing except appeasing. The country did horribly during the Revolutionary War because there was no President but Washington was saddled with an inept congress that was worse that nay president. He probably was better off not having any one person to mess him up more than he was in the first few years of the war.

I’m guessing Washington would agree with me that today, this country could never win its freedom like it did during the Revolutionary War because the left would not allow it and they would have surrendered after 2-4 years of really losing with huge casualties = regardless of President or Generals.

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I don’t think McCain wears his faith on his sleeve, I think he’s more reserved, but if he didn’t have it, he wouldn’t have been able to conduct the services at the Hanoi Hilton. He knew the liturgy as I understand it and as Peter Leavitt notes. That says to me that he received a decent foundation in Christian beliefs and because of his age, it was probably the “standard” version. His wife brought a new adopted baby home without his knowledge, and he accepted the child immediately. That does it for me.

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I’m glad John McCain was able to visit the Graham’s.

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