Clark doesn't have to disparage McCain's service. McCain opening up his yap and saying over and over again "I'm a former POW" disparages McCain's military service. Plagarizing Solzenitzyn's cross in the sand story to embellish your service disparages McCain's military service. And telling the Vietnamese captors that you're a son of an important navy admiral, giving information about the ship you are from, it's name, location and military complement so you can get medical treatment that other POW's were denied in direct violation of the military code of uniform justice disparages McCain's military service.

Similarly, President Jimmy Carter didn't disrespect McCain's POW status either. Tommy was wrong, and this commentator was wrong too in saying that Wesley Clark disparaged or disrespected McCain's service!

And adjusting your story about how you gave the names of football players as the names of your fellow soldiers depending on what state you're pandering to also trivializes your service.

I'd also like to know if his POW status is supposed to be something to inspire admiration or pity, honestly.  If it's something to be admired, then why is it fine for him to mention it all the time (just as part of his appeal, not even as a shield from criticism) while Gore somehow came off as conceited for talking about his initiative on the internet.  Gore's supposed to be humble and never talk about accomplishments, but it's all well and good for McCain to toot his own horn all the time.

Is it just because there's a difference between bravery and intelligence?  Why is the former more important than the latter? 

SNOOPY

    You're closer to the truth than most,only there's much more ,if people      would go to the trouble to look his pow record,and comments from fellow pows 

Why bring up old news and old distortions? Why?

It serves as reinforcement for the old, republicans good, democrats bad meme.

"The speakers came across as a weak assortment of military experts. There was no one retired military who had real military bona fides or who had a connection with the war as it is today."

Who's disparaging who's military service again? 

DING-DING-DING!

We have a winner.

Right on the nose, pal.

Right.
On.
The.
Nose.

NO ONE has disparaged McCain's military service.

Now now. I wouldn't go quite that far.

I'm sure there's some dipstick somewhere who has opened his mouth in disparagement of McCain's service. But whoever it is doesn't work for Obama, isn't a surrogate for Obama, and has little or nothing to do with the mainstream support Obama has among progressives in this country.

It's like the PUMAs. Yeah, there's a few of 'em. But their numbers are insignificant, and they're just a bunch of d!ckheads anyway. They certainly don't have the pull that the MSM wants us to believe they have.

And, of course, Snoopy's comment (first!) is spot-on.

Anybody catch Hardball last night, when they had the three guests, one of them a PUMA woman (Darragh Murphy?). Bizarre. She stared at the floor while the other looked at the camera, and seemed to be plugging through it like a crack-addled porn rookie thinking about the dime-bag that was waiting.

Maybe she's just shy, not media savvy, to be fair. But she really creeped me out, and crazy Irish-American dames are one of my areas of specialization.

Thank you, Snoopy. Well researched and well posted.

 

           now Col., behave
 

Col I wondered about her too. Truthfully to me she looked like what we would think of as a typical republican woman, i.e. a woman who hasn't gotten any in lord knows how long? This person came across to me as very bitter and angry for some reason, why I don't know, but that's how she came across to me and I only saw her while I was waiting for KO to start so it was a couple of minutes at best.