My respect for Clark is up - my respect for Obama down.

And as for McCain, I’m the son of a Naval aviator - I know what Clark’s talking about more than most.

He may have been a hot-shit jet-jockey, but that don’t make him presidential material.  And getting shot down don’t take no special talent, either.

And every time someone throws the ‘elite’ crap against Obama just remember that this child of privilege was the son and grandson of admirals.  How many ‘commoners’ could he count as close friends growing up?  You don’t think he wasn’t cut some slack because Daddy and Grand-daddy were muckety-mucks?

Then there are all the crashes and the Vietnamese endorsement.

Talking Points Memo | DC Press Lords Lay Down Fire for McCain

The McCain campaign’s claim that there’s any attack here on McCain’s war record is simply a lie—a simple attempt to fool people. This is an essential point to this entire campaign—does McCain’s military record mean that even the Democrats have to concede the point that he’s more qualified to be commander-in-chief of the US armed forces, that his foreign and national security policy judgment is superior to Obama’s? It’s simply a fact that McCain has a record of really poor judgment on a whole list of key foreign policy and national security questions.

This is one of those moments in the campaign where the nonsense from the chief DC press sachems is so palpable and overwhelming that everyone who cares about this contest needs to jump into the breach and demand that they answer why no one can question whether McCain’s war record makes him more qualified to be president and whether he has good foreign policy and national security judgment.