Target Practice

Senator Jay Rockefeller presents himself as the decoy.

In the Charleston Gazette Sunday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, who has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that Sen. John McCain "has a temper" and, according to the story, "believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues.

"McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet [insert a big, fat SIC here]. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

Just so Senator Barack Obama could shoot him down.

Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Barack Obama supporter, apologized to John McCain Tuesday for suggesting to a West Virginia newspaper that the Arizona senator does not care about “the lives of people” caught in the wars he champions, dating back to his Navy service in Vietnam. The apology came after Barack Obama’s campaign swiftly criticized the West Virginia senator for the remarks quoted Monday in his hometown newspaper. [SNIP]

The Obama campaign distanced itself from the remark, as it did Tuesday with Rockefeller’s comments.

“Senator Obama has a deep respect for Senator McCain’s service to this country and doesn’t agree with what Senator Rockefeller said,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday.

Rockefeller's trying to make Obama look good in an area where he's sorely lacking.

It isn’t exactly a new tactic; not even a new one for Obama. Try again, fellas.

(Thanks to Hot Air)

Comments

[Special Forces Grunt]

As a Vietnam veteran, I really wish that we had laser-guided bombs back then. As I recall, those critters didn't come along until the early 1970's.

McCain was shot down long before the laser-guided bombs.

[baldilocks]

That what the SIC is for, among other things. I used to load such things.

[waltj]

I guess it's a little too much to ask for the Dems to be accurate when it comes to military hardware. What I'd like to see McCain do is to tell Rockefeller, "don't apologize to me, apologize to every combat aviator in the U.S. military (and their ground crews:-), because these are the people you've insulted with your arrogantly stupid statement, which is demonstrably wrong in every particular". Probably won't happen, but it would be nice to see the reaction.