McCain recently used his POW experience to deflect the criticism of his being unable to recall how many houses he has, a fact that makes this criticism even more telling:
McCain's POW Defense: Devaluing Our Service and His Own
BY Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.)
We obviously honor and respect McCain's service and the five-and-a-half years of horror that he went through at the hands of the North Vietnamese; but it's not an excuse for everything. He has already used it to explain away his infidelities in his first marriage. He's used it to defend his healthcare plan. He just the other day used it to deflect accusations of having skirted the rules of the Saddleback forum.
It's time for the Senator to stop cheapening the war experiences of thousands of vets and his fellow POWs, and his own as well, by stretching the boundaries of logic to make his POW status a wild-card rebuttal to all accusations or an answer to all difficult questions.
Ben Smith finds McCain's response a "non-sequitor" and also "emotionally powerful." and I guess the McCain campaign is going to forget logic and concentrate on emotion:
They will be prepared to show McCain's "home" in Hanoi by using images of his cell. They claim they have not overused the POW element and insist they have "underused it."
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