[dagogo redux]

“Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.”

I don’t find you entirely wrong, but neither do I find your fine point of emphasis to be worth haggling about.

This scandal has many levels of wrong-doing, all intertwined. I find Obama’s tyrannical abuse of power the most worrisome aspect for our country overall, with the efforts of his “most transparent” administration to stifle the truth running a close second. The general contempt for the military is also a larger issue than the specific five bad guys released, and the precedent this swap sets for further kidnappings of American soldiers and civilians is also a bigger issue for me.

[Leaning Right]

I see your point, and perhaps I should have been more specific in my original post.

We are in a struggle for the support of the great American middle. For they will decide the midterms in 2014, and then the presidential election in 2016.

Those folks will be very sympathetic to any attempt to get an American home. So a conservative argument that Bergdahl doesn't “deserve” to come home will fall on deaf ears.

But an argument that the swap was very uneven will resonate with the American middle, veterans or not. That's my point. Hit Obama where it will really hurt him.