[mburbank]

See? We all understand.

Preech, I don't think it makes the immune to criticism at all. I do think however, that it gives them some authority.

If I have a question of Physics, the opinions of Stephen Hawking and say, me, are NOT equal. His carries more weight.

Someone who got their limbs blown off serving their country has more to say about service and sacrafice then someone who drafted the doge. If John Mccain critcizes Max Cleland stance (no joke intended) on these issues (and he has) I'm going to find him more credable than Rush. Well. That goes for pretty much anything.

Now if Max Cleland is holding forth on, say, comic books, his limblessness does not make him any more credable than me. But if he's tlking about prostethis, he's kind of got the edge on me. Not immunity. Maybe I've really done my homework on prosthesis. But he's got the edge.