Barts

How does being a veteran make you more or less qualified to be President? George W. Bush is a veteran and recognized by most Americans and historians to be very poor president. Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a veteran and considered by most to have been a great president. FDR's background was in law, like Obama's, not the military like McCain's.

But since McCain, unlike previous presidential candidates, is afraid to release his full military record, we don't what kind of veteran he is do we? We only have his word and stories about his military career. Which would be OK if we knew that McCain wasn't such a liar.