Biden's own suffering can be an equaliser for the POW issue.

[Franks Wild Years]

McKitchenTable's only strategy of late has to invoke his time spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam - A horrible fate, one I'd wish on nobody. Ultimately though, it's something that you MUST be fully recovered from, that MUST be more or less a non-issue if you want to hold a job as crucial as that of President of the USA.

Joe Biden suffered a far worse fate. He had his wife & baby daughter snatched from him in a car accident which also seriously wounded his two young sons. His family was crushed in the space of a second. Now, I think that any good parent / husband / wife would take five years in the Hanoi Hilton in a second over the decimation of their beloved...in fact, if you even need to think about it you're a pretty appalling person.

So I'm not trying to downplay the suffering John McCain endured - It was clearly extreme, and I'm not sure I'd make it through as well as he has were I in his position. Yet Joe Biden has dusted himself down from worse. And if McCain continues to pull out the POW card as a catch-all excuse for everything, then Sen. Biden can, quite justifiably, indignantly turn and say "You stop that now. You're not the only one who has suffered here, but you're the one cynically trying to sway voters by talking about it every five seconds".

[C_U_L8R]

1. Joe Biden, very sadly, lost his wife.

John McCain, very selfishly, ditched his for a young millionairess

[napi21]

2. I seriously doubt Joe will use that argument. The fact that I've

read and heard the comparrison several times in the last 24 hours means that a lot of people have already made that connection in their mind though. Joe is very good at comebacks, and I'm positive he will have quite a few for McNuts & whoever he picks for his VP without going to this issue!

[Franks Wild Years]

3. Well....

...he's kind of used the issue - albeit in a different context - once before in relation to McCain saying that Obama can't comment on the GI bill because he's never been in war. About McCain's ad hominem argument on the issue.

Here you go: (Biden segment starts about 40 seconds in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGoB4_mJnsY