John McCain and Barack Obama disagree on a lot. Lately, they’ve been especially disagreeable in their disagreements over who deserves the most blame for the presidential campaign’s ongoing descent into the trivial and the downright misleading. But they rightly concur that American institutions of higher learning should allow Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs on campus.
Both White House candidates stated the position last Thursday night during a forum on public service at Columbia University in New York City, a few hours after they made a joint appearance in a 9/11 memorial service at Ground Zero.