I am so glad that someone had the courage to say this about John McCain. Everything Phillip Butler says in the article has been documented somewhere else, but it is valuable to hear it from someone who has known McCain since Annapolis and who was a fellow POW.

Via Digby, where dday wryly notes the amount of media coverage this article will not get. Meanwhile, we’re bombarded with stories about the new Corsi book about Obama. Even though his Swift Boat book about John Kerry was completely discredited, and his new book does things like simultaneously trying to claim Obama is a secret Muslim and a member of a radical black church, the media is lining up to give him a megaphone for whatever outrageous crap he can spew.

Meanwhile, the Butler article (which came out five months ago—had you heard about it? I hadn’t) languishes in the archives of military.com. Maybe because Butler tries to be even-handed, gives McCain credit for his courage and service as he explains why he personally will not vote for McCain. Mostly I think it’s because he says the unthinkable: Being a POW does not qualify you to be President of the United States. They are, as he says, two different jobs.