Not John McCain, that’s for sure. You might make the case that Wes Clark is. Watch this clip put together by TPM. It’s rather amazing how viral idiocy can be:
Give the Republicans credit; they know how to defend themselves. Push them even a little and they’ll hit back hard. They know McCain cannot afford to have his foreign policy/national security cred challenged, so they will do what it takes to make sure the Dems don’t probe this sore spot again. Pretty soon they’ll have things set up, if the Dems and media let him, so that any legitimate criticism of McCain will be an outrage.
The shame is no one is out there defending Clark. Americans admire loyalty, and he’s not getting it from the Obama campaign. Apart from the way it makes Obama look weak and reactive, Clark deserves better treatment from Obama than to be left hanging the way he has been.
I hope we don’t look back to this period in the campaign as the time when it all started to go south for Obama. I think it’s too early and not enough people are paying attention yet for these kinds of mistakes to matter much, but I hope at some point soon he stops dancing around, plants his feet, and shows what he’s made of.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: dday @ Hullaballoo:
I actually think that Wes Clark completely threw McCain off with this. The Villagers are having their little hissy fit, but this has exposed that McCain believes in his own divine right to the Presidency based entirely on his suffering and his wounds (which he’s ever so “reluctant” to talk about, he mentioned in the same interview. Yeah, right.) Clark touched a nerve here by questioning the assumption that McCain’s biography can stand in for his judgment or policy prescriptions. He deflated McCain’s entire rationale for his candidacy. And McCain can’t take it so he’s acting like a WATB.
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