that McCain has hardly worked a day outside of government and since marrying into multimillionaire status. Now it is obviously true that McCain has the edge in military experience, but that is not the only experience relevant to Americans that want a president that understands them and their lives. Furthermore, I think that Clark's point that McCain's honorable service as a POW does not necessarily make him a great strategic thinker. To convince people of that, McCain needs to start doing a better job of keeping basic facts straight, like knowing that Sudan is not Somalia, al Quaeda is not Shia, and how many troops are in Iraq. Then he needs to explain how he plans to commit enough troops to pacify Iraq into allowing US troops to stay forever without continuing to divert resources from the real front in the hunt to bring bin Laden to justice. These things are much more relevant that a manufactured nontroversy.