McCain Asks Obama To Apologize For Rockefeller’s “McCain Was Just A Jet Pilot” Comments
I’ve said before that attacking McCain’s military record was going to backfire for the Democrats, but they just keep doing it anyway.
(CNN) – John McCain’s campaign called on Barack Obama Tuesday to condemn a comment from one of his Senate supporters that the presumptive Republican nominee, a naval aviator during the Vietnam War, “was a fighter pilot who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit.”
“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?” Sen. Jay Rockefeller said in an interview published in Tuesday’s Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. “He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”
One wonders if Senator Rockefeller remembers that, during his service in Vietnam, McCain was shot down from 35,000 feet and spent five and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton being brutally tortured by North Vietnamese socialists.
I have my problems with John McCain and his policies, but I think he’s well aware of what happens to the “lives of people” on the ground in war.
