I just sent the following e-mail to MSNBC. Let's see what, if any, response I get.
Hi,
As always I appreciate your work. But I don't understand why you choose to simply approach issues like Gen. Wesley Clark's questions about John McCain's qualifications for the presidency based on his war service by asking how they will effect the campaign rather than as an opportunity for a serious discussion. When you have a panel of "experts," why not let them take the issue Gen. Clark raised and go with it.
Many of us have had the same question for some time, it is fundamental to who McCain is and little that he has said suggests qualifications for the presidency. It's clear that as heroic as it was (and Gen. Clark made a point of that) has helped him to know the difference between Shiite and Sunni in Iran and Iraq. Today is different from then. His war-mongering sensibilities don't auger well for a foreign-policy change today.
You have a responsibility to ask the questions (certainly after they are raised by others) not to just treat them as another form of campaign gossip. I know you're too good for this Fox-like approach to politics. Don't let me down.
Good luck
Dan Cohen
(gaelinc@aol.com)
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