What we also all tend to forget is that Bush's team honed their "swiftboating" tactics during the 2000 Republican primary... on none other than one Senator John McCain.

I wonder if anyone on Obama's team will be interested in reopening that line of attack. Probably not. Not that I think Obama is the squeaky-clean paragon of virtue that he is sometimes made out to be, just that McCain has revealed such an abysmal grasp of economics and has made so many obvious foreign policy blunders that one hardly needs to conjure up Vietnam veterans to launch an effective attack on his credentials. Sun Tzu advises us to know our enemy and know ourselves. As someone who deeply respects McCain's military record, I still have to recognize that, from the senator's own mouth, he doesn't know much about either.

I wouldn't rule out Clark as an advisor, though. That still might be a good call, especially for a Presidential candidate with no military background.