[Mr McCain] may lack Mr Obama's eloquence or Mrs Clinton's grasp of policy detail. But while Mr Obama was in short strousers and Hillay Rodham was waffling to her fellow students about "searching for more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating modes of living", Mr McCain was having his teeth and bones broken by North Vietnamese interrogators.
in «After Super Tuesday», The Economist, February 9th-15th 2008