Could Bill Clinton please shut up?

A petulant Bill Clinton continues to tip-toe around the radical step of actually supporting the Democratic candidate for President.

I'm hereby citing Bill for violating the Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way guideline.

Clinton, absurdly, said the following about McCain:

I think his greatness is that he keeps trying to come back to service without ever asking people to cut him any slack or feel sorry for him or any of that stuff because he was a POW

Personally, I feel the EXACT opposite. When McCain didn't know how many houses he owns, somehow his POW experience became part of his damage control. "I lived in one house for five years..."

Another example is when he announced that his favorite song is "Dancing Queen" by ABBA and his musical tastes stopped evolving when he was shot down. The only catch is that ABBA was formed in 1972 and released "Dancing Queen" in 1975; McCain was shot down in 1967.

So I think he falls back on his Vietnam experience writ large, views current events through that prism, and treats it as a universal justification/excuse for all manner of positions and foibles. Newsflash: it's 2008 and it's not about Vietnam anymore.

But maybe that's just me.

My Grandpa saw combat against the Japanese on Okinawa in 1945 and managed to never use the fact as justification for anything. In fact, although I knew he was in the Marines back in WWII, I didn't learn about the combat until I read his discharge papers.

My Step-Dad flew C-130's in Vietnam. He won't hesitate to talk about it but certainly expresses no sense of entitlement.

To each their own I guess.