Both candidates should just shut up

A Republican congressman standing for re-election has not exactly made friends by his remarks about his opponent, an Illinois Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who lost both legs when her Blackhawk was hit with an RPG in 2004.

On CNN last Sunday, Rep. Joe Walsh said of Tammy Duckworth, “… I mean, my God, that's all she talks about," meaning her wounds and loss of her legs. Duckworth, Walsh said, “played on her injuries to score political points in public.”

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/07/06/lawmaker-berates-double-amputee-rival.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

For her part, Duckworth uses Walsh’s words and her wounds to her own benefit. Her wounds, she said, “’inform my discussions with the constituents when I talk about health care.’”

So because she has no legs, Duckworth is more qualified to talk about Obama’s health care plans than is Walsh, who has no military service.

Both Walsh and Duckworth seem to have let politics trump manners and logic. Both should just shut up about war wounds.