HIT 'EM WHERE IT HURTS

Phillip Butler was also a POW in the "Hanoi Hilton" and was there longer than Granpa. Back in March, he had an op-ed published in Military Times in which he stated that McCain was unfit to be President. I thought that this was something the Dems should've widely publicized because it directly attacks one of McCain's supposed strengths but nothing much happened. Now, someone else has figured out that Butler's testimony is worth spreadig.

New Ad Stars Fellow McCain POW Suggesting He's Unfit To Be President
By Greg Sargent - September 15, 2008, 11:10AM

Robert Greenwald's Brave New PAC goes up on national cable with a new 30-second spot starring fellow McCain POW Phillip Butler, who says he knows from personal experience that a POW background is not desirable in a commander-in-chief.

"John McCain is not somebody that I would like to see with his finger near the red button," Butler says in the spot.

The spot is notable because it's the first paid advertising that directly takes on McCain's war service while suggesting that McCain is temperamentally unfit to be president: