If being a POW is absolute qualification for good judgment and common sense we better listen to what this guy has to say. Why being a POW is no recommendation or qualification for the Presidency. This from a military website written by a POW who had been in Hanoi for two years by the time McCain arrived and endured far more torture and suffering. As he points out in his piece

John McCain served his time as a POW with great courage, loyalty and tenacity. More that 600 of us did the same. After our repatriation a census showed that 95% of us had been tortured at least once. The Vietnamese were quite democratic about it. There were many heroes in North Vietnam. I saw heroism every day there. And we motivated each other to endure and succeed far beyond what any of us thought we had in ourselves. Succeeding as a POW is a group sport, not an individual one. We all supported and encouraged each other to survive and succeed. John knows that. He was not an individual POW hero. He was a POW who surmounted the odds with the help of many comrades, as all of us did.

I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate.

Sadly, McCain’s POW status is not unique, nor his experiences any different from anyone else’s there nor his heroic acts any different from the heroic acts of the other POWs. Yet McCain can’t let a moment go by or answer a single question without mentioning his time as a POW, as if that gives him a pass on everything else. Hell, he even invoked his POW status when asked what his favorite music was, which is patently ridiculous. (ABBA, if you want to know)

John McCain is profoundly unqualified to be a US Senator, let alone President of the US and most assuredly not President in these difficult times at the end of 8 years of an Administration that has done more to destroy this country than any external enemy we’ve ever had.