Unfit For Command

Clark calls 'em like he sees 'em, and people get upset.  But when people make bullshit claims parsing a speech¹, cowardly swiftboaters lie and GOP hosebeasts wear purple heart bandaids to mock a Democrat?  No prob.

Wonder if McCain ever wrote something like this on toilet paper:

You wish you could be transformed into that itinerant nothingness that lets you watch the world pass by with all its gross trimmings but which demands nothing of you. To be free so that you can comment or not comment as you see fit and then just hop on a breeze and be blown restlessly to some new horizon with new hope and strength.

Probably was too busy collaborating with the North Vietnamese and giving away sensitive military information² to be that thoughtful.  Okay, that was mean.  Whatever.

Anyway, somebody in comments at Eschaton thought how this is all playing out is good for Obama, and maybe even a deliberate tactic.  I agree on the former and hope the latter is true. 

Republicans attacked Kerry's strength in the usual Rovian way, and we might as well do the same with the one difference being that nobody is smearing McCain, nor lying about his record.  Hell, he's the one who has made his service the centerpiece of this campaign.  Goose, meet gander...

ntodd

1 - Thanks to then-Representative Bernie Sanders for sending me the CR pages containing the full speech.

2 - That part might not be true, but I really wanted to say it.