Military Records Mccain

Wes Clark's remarks remind us what we should have learned from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: questioning someone's military record lowers the tone of the campaign and distracts from the real issues.

To understand how we got ourselves in the middle of an election with so little information and so much suspicion, we need to review the 2004 election issues that revolved around John Kerry.

It is a lesson in just how persistent and irritating smear campaigns can be. Nearly four years after the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth trotted out a s...