CNN to Clark: How come Kerry's “physical courage” qualified him but McCain's doesn’t?

Hot Air ^ | 2:53 pm on July 2, 2008 | Allahpundit

[rocksblues]

One of the dumbest things about the Clark kerfuffle is that because there are so many elements of military service that people respect, the narrow critique he’s offering against McCain seems almost beside the point. I see service mainly as a testament to character and fortitude; others see it as evidence of good judgment, and others as an important lesson for a C-in-C to have (i.e. “experience”) before committing other men to war. So far as I know, McCain has never staked his own wartime ordeal to any one of these, preferring to let voters draw whatever they find most virtuous from his story. Clark, however, is acting like he has basically staked it to one — namely, “executive experience,” as though McCain’s claiming his beatings from the Vietcong somehow turned him into a strategic genius or, at a minimum, a Romneyesque managerial prodigy.

[xzins]

Yeah, I know that. I think I was short on coffee at the time.

....naval aviator...

just gotta keep tellin’ myself

:>)

[Loyal Buckeye]

Ashley Wilkes is an ignorant jackass.

[Polybius]

http://www.medalofhonor.com/JohnFKennedy.htm

????

Notice how that MOH web page never claims that JFK had the MOH. It gives a summary of his political career and casually mentions military service:

"Educated at Choate preparatory school and Harvard University, he graduated in 1940. Following naval service in the Pacific in World War Two, he entered politics in 1946 and won election as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives."

The reason that JFK is at that MOH web site is the link at the bottom of the page:

(JFK) Remarks at a Reception Honoring Medal of Honor Recipients May 1963

[Polybius]

MOH Recipients by war ---- World War II ----- Letters G through L

[Locomotive Breath]

Got it - thanks.