>BTW, the Wesley Clark story turns out to be more nuanced than I first thought. What he in fact said was that McCain's 6 years as a POW did not necessarily qualify him to be President. He did not criticize McCain, he just said this doesn't mean he should be President. Given how prominent the POW experience is in the narrative package McCain is presenting to voters, I don't think it was out of bounds. Clark was a military hero himself so this wasn't some cheap potshot from the peanut gallery.

Yep. I think I said this here a few days ago. Clark didn't say that McCain wasn't qualified; he said that his service didn't automatically qualify him.

Tamar