Mal Kline sees false equivalency in a College of New Jersey professor’s treatment of the two candidates’ fathers:

Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics show their biases. Case in point: a double book review in the Chronicle of Higher Education that seeks to equate the fathers of the two presidential candidates. “When both men reflect on the meaning of family, they focus on their patriarchs, the hard drinking, demanding men who were absent for much of their youth—Obama’s because he returned to his native Kenya, McCain’s because he was frequently at sea,” David Haven Blake … The problem … is that in relaying the tales of Admiral McCain and Barack Obama, Sr., he puts their exploits on the same scale, though arguably the accomplishments of the former were more epic in scope than those of the latter.