Before you ask - of course he's an Obama backer:

In the Charleston Gazette Sunday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, who has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that Sen. John McCain "has a temper" and, according to the story, "believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues. "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

First: fighter pilots don't drop bombs. They fight in the air against other fighter pilots. Ergo the name.

More importantly: McCain was tortured by North Vietnamese goons for five and a half years because he refused to sign multiple "confessions" alleging trumped up war crimes against civilians. So, without exageration - an Obama surrogate just adopted and repeated the identical smears that McCain's captors screamed at him while they broke his limbs and snapped off his teeth for half a decade. Hope and change.

UPDATE: Proving the old adage that glib sarcasm on things we know little about is a recipe for disaster (is that actually an adage?), reader David writes in with this gentle reproach:

Not so accurate, I think, was your specific criticism of his remark about fighter pilots. I think that McCain was shot down in a Skyhawk, which is a fighter-bomber and was on that occasion being used as a bomber. Whether, on other occasions, he engaged in man-to-man dogfights against MiGs, I don't know. Not that it would substantiate Rockefeller's charge in any case -- it's just that I suspect your statement is factually misleading.

And sigh.

References:
* Obama-Backing Senator Attacks McCain's War Experience [Political Punch]

Previously:
* Top Obama Adviser Explains Iraq War: Turns Out, It's The Jews' Fault. Again. (Plus: Ha'aretz Political Correspondent’s Pro-Obama Apologism Getting Increasingly Desperate)
* Obama Draws Line In The Sand: Invading Israel OK But Calling Hillary A Mean Name Is A Firing Offense
* Top Obama Foreign Policy Adviser: No Seriously, We Are Totally Going To Screw Israel When We Get Into Power