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The Qualities of a President

Are we now engaging in reverse Swift-boating? Have we moved from tolerating the defamation of heroes such as Sen. John F. Kerry and his Vietnam War comrades to being intolerant of legitimate questions about the relevance of Sen. John McCain's military career to the presidency?

Wesley K. Clark, a distinguished retired Army general, is lambasted because he looked at Mr. McCain's active-duty experience as a naval aviator and concluded that it had little to do with being president. Mr. McCain, who was near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, led a flight squadron for a limited period, a command that has been held by thousands of other talented Americans.

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