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It's 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?
Not John McCain, say some military leaders: "I think his knee-jerk response factor is a little scary."
By Mark Benjamin [2008-03-06]

  • Does real experience actually matter?

    "There is no question that McCain has more national security experience than either Obama or Clinton. His five-and-a-half-year ordeal as a prisoner of war in Vietnam established him as a legitimate American hero. He served his first term in Congress starting in 1982 (when Obama was still an undergraduate at Columbia University) and has continued to be a leader on national security issues for most of his career, including serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee."

    So, by raising this as a campaign issue, Clinton plays into McCain's strengths. Get the nom, lose the general election. The sad thing is that the strategy is probably working, at least in the short term.

    Then again, last time around "swiftboating" destroyed a real-honest-to-goodness war veteran with real policy experience in Kerry, and somehow Bush gets credit for looking tough when he was, in fact, a draft dodger. So I guess the "facts" in this debate are probably totally irrelevant once the MSM and the 527's have spoken.

    -- Kingbreaker
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    Wednesday, March 5, 2008 08:15 PM
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