[diogenes ghost]

"Where are the armchair McCain bashers?"

Still here, boss.

Having a son in the service does not entitle anyone to the Presidency.

If it did, you might be calling Cindy Sheehan "Madame President".

[charles m]

Having a son in the service does not entitle anyone to the Presidency. If it did, you might be calling Cindy Sheehan "Madame President".

Turn off your computer, take a long walk outside, and reread your post again when you get back. You sound like one of those moral equivalent democrats.

[torchthemummy]

Having a son in the service does not entitle anyone to the Presidency.

It's not that the fact his son was in Iraq makes McCain entitled to the Presidency. It's the fact that not only does it lend credibility to McCain's instilling of a love of the military to his son but that it completely negates the asinine requirement pushed by the left that one needs to, or children, need to have been involved in the military to talk of the military and the ongoing war. Of course those same liberals don't push such requirements on the likes of Bill, Hillary or Obama and on down. Politically it also allows McCain, with his own service and imprisonment as well as his son's, to tell the likes of Cindy Sheehan to stuff it.