Americans are very skeptical of "Free Trade". In middle America is code word for job loss in America to foreign countries which just helps corporations.

I do not think that McCain going over to foreign governments and talking about free trade is going to help him here at home.

NAFTA and now CAFTA is considered four letter words in places such as Ohio, Michigan, etc.

If McCain's military experience is as exemplerary as his campaign states, why has he not released his entire Navy record?

Maybe Gen Clarke knows something about that record that we don't.

He has a reluctance to talk about his experiences in Vietnam?? Is he serious? He ALWAYS talks about his experience in Vietnam, and readily accepts the hero accolades that go with being a POW. So why can't he answer how that experience will make him a good Commander-in-Chief? That should be his easiest answer, instead of acting like no one can dare ask that question. Sorry, it is a relevant question, especially since he uses it as his main experience in forming his life as a man. He came back from being a POW, had an affair and got a divorce, and went into politics using his new wife's money and his reputation as a POW. So answer the question instead of acting like we are out of line for asking...how does your experience in Vietnam make you prepared for being Commander in Chief in 2009?

Bring on the debates! McCain is going to collapse into a heap of angry, sweating flesh when confronted on any issue by Obama.

McCain gets "visibly angry" so easily. Can you imagine someone this unstable as President? Do we want to give a man who can't control his temper access to the button? I don't think so.

McCain may be a maverick, but he's emotionally unstable and far too angry to be in charge. As this campaign goes on, and he has more temper tantrums, the American public will see more and more of his uncontrolled outbursts. Forget whether he has "experience", he doesn't have the emotional stability or temperament to run this country.

If being shot at in combat qualified a person to be President, you could walk into many VFW halls and choose your next president from the guys sitting at the bar. McCain's military experience does not qualify him to be President. And the fact that he loses his cool when asked about it makes me doubt he could handle the pressure of being President.

Just when was it that John was reluctant to talk about his military experience, or for that matter , his friend Bud?

Wow... sounds like the big "war hero" is scared that Obama might put a real war hero on the ticket.

Cut him loose? Ha! I wish Obama would cut him loose and let Clark say everything he COULD say about McCain. The two know one another personally.

Also, wasn't McCain in violation of the military code of conduct when he cheated on his first wife with Cindy?

Maybe this war hero record stuff is getting a bit too close to the truth.

I'm a Vietnam veteran can I be president? And, I didn't even scew up and get captured.

By the way, to the people saying that Wesley Clark was disrespecting a veteran: Wesley Clark was wounded in Vietnam, still shouting orders to his company even after being shot four times. Wesley Clark rappelled down a cliff in Bosnia, braving sniper fire, to retrieve two bodies from a car in his convoy which had plunged when the road gave way. Wesley Clark thinks John McCain is a hero, and he should know -- he's one himself.

So he wants to be President but can handle a simple question about his service?

That doesn't add up. I read he receives disability payments but he is not visibly disabled as far as I can tell. Has he suffered mental disability from his treatment?

Perhaps he is not stable enough for the demands of the office.

Ol' John is on a slow burning fuse...he's gonna blow one of these days in a most spectacular fashion. Some question is going to set him off and no amount of walk back will undo the damage.

Clark was, of course, right in what he said. He didn't denigrate McCain's service, he simply made the observation that his war-time experience is not germane to his ability to be POTUS.

If graduating 5th from the bottom of your class at Annapolis; getting your wings because your Dad's an admiral, crashing 5 planes, and ending up a POW makes one Presidential material (ok, the bar was lowered for Bush)...why not go with a real war hero/ace like Randy Cunningham?

John McCain may be 'reluctant' to talk about his POW experience, but he manages to interject it into just about every ad he runs. Why should it be off limits in the discussion? He uses it to deflect critism whenever the opportunity presents itself. Being a POW is not an innoculation against any and all criticism. It about time the media stop treating it as such.

The war service doesn't impress me. That was decades ago. What made up MY mind was his moral character. Any man who ditches a faithful wife because she's crippled, unattractive, and not political spouse material and then starts an adulterous affair with a glamorous, rich, young blonde is totally lacking in humanity. I don't want this sort anywhere near the White House.

If McCain get angry about questions concerning his Viet Nam experience, I wonder how angry will he get when some bold reporter ask questions concerning how he abandon his first wife Carol for a beauty queen he met in a bar in Hawaii. McCain may had been an officer in the Navy but he was no Gentleman.
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You would never imagine from the howls of outrage that four years ago the Republican party accused Kerry of being a coward, faking his wounds and shooting a guy in the back. But thats what they did.

Back in 2000 the Bush campaign suggested that McCain might have a dangerously thin skin, 'McCrazy' they called him and suggested that he might have an anger management problem.

Well the events of the past few days certainly bear it out. McCain is lying when he claims to be reluctant to talk about his POW experiences, he brings them up time and again. What he is reluctant to do is to allow anyone to question the relevance of those experiences.

What would President McCain do if the taunting came from a US rival like Ahmedinijad? Would he threaten to 'bomb, bomb, Iran' if he doesn't take it back?

The fact that McCain lets such issues get under his thin skin demonstrates that he really does not have the character to be President.

Please watch what words you're using while reporting this "who belittled the relevance of McCain’s wartime experience as a qualification for the Presidency." Clark did not belittle anything. He stated that he did not believe combat prepared one for the presidency. Clark is a freakin general, there is NO WAY he is belittling anything about those who served their country.

Using "I was a POW" as a comeback to every viable criticism is the coward's way out.

I guess McCain's new campaign strategy is to use a noun, a verb, and POW as a response to any criticism.

It's about time you guys (and all the media) stop falling to your knees around McCain and start treating him like a presidential candidate, i.e. quit babying him and start asking the tough questions. Like asking exactly how his military experience makes him more qualified to be president, what "experience" that gives him. McCain can bristle all he wants when questioned about his military experience, but he's the one who's running on that experience, so that makes it fair game. Now it's up to the media to do its job and not give him any more free passes. The voting public has a right to get to the real story about BOTH of these candidates, not just one. Keep pressing McCain -- we all deserve an answer to that question.

If anyone has the right to call him out on this issue its GEN Clark and Senator Webb they sreved there country just like Him and also Myself. If he thinks he is above being asked a simple question this man is no worthy of being PRESIDENT. This is the same cocky attitude we have put up from BUSH the last 8yrs and AMERICA better get it heads out of there A$$$$'s and start electing people that have good character and who can pass a simple math test.