Dåligt kampanjtema

Det här vore ett dåligt och plumpt kampanjtema. Demokraterna gör ett misstag om de fortsätter på den vägen. Joe Klein formulerar kortfattat varför i Time:

’Clark is just plain wrong when he says that ’getting shot down’ doesn’t qualify as foreign policy experience. I think McCain’s Vietnam war experience gives him important perspective on the horrors of war and should never, ever be discounted–even if McCain’s more recent positions have been unduly bellicose. It’s also just really bad manners on Clark’s part, given the suffering McCain endured. I disagree with McCain’s foreign policy positions in the middle east–you may have noticed–but he has traveled widely and, I believe, has worked hard to learn the rest of the world, especially the countries that spun out of the former Soviet Union.’