Matt Stoller made a very interesting observation yesterday . Talking about McCain’s first general election advertisement, he said:
McCain is obviously hinging his whole campaign on his POW time in Vietnam, with this spot closing with ’An American President Americans Have Been Waiting for’. This is a frequent tool he deploys when he speaks with the press, saying things like ’I haven’t been questioned this hard since Hanoi’.
I can’t help but think that it’s a foolish narrative. 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 all saw the candidate without military service elected over the candidate who had served, in several cases heroically.
I decided to take a little closer look at this phenomenon. Obviously, the war hero turned President narrative is ingrained in our history. People like George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower rode their wartime popularity to political success. In election campaigns, candidates like to use their w...
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