"The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous."
--John McCain's Campaign
Wow. Good thing inmates at X-Ray are merely "enemy combatants"; otherwise, we'd be obliged to believe everything they say.
(See also Mark Kleiman.)
UPDATE: Not surprisingly, McCain's POW acquaintances don't necessarily take to the idea that POW status stands in as a credential of unfailing honesty. (H/T Quincy Adams.)
More ominous for McCain: Even David Bernstein seems appalled by McCain's...presumptuousness.
