There’s going to be a bit of hullabaloo about John McCain deciding to delete some anti-Hillary comments from a speech he was slated to give today. But what stood out to me was this line:

McCain decided Wednesday not to deliver those remarks, said Brooke Buchanan, McCain’s spokeswoman. “It has nothing to do with the content of the speech. It has to do with the with the venue,” Buchanan said. “This isn’t the appropriate venue for that.” Camden Military Academy is for students grades 7 to 12.

I guess the argument is that McCain didn’t want to give a partisan, hard-hitting speech to an audience of high schoolers. Of course, that raises the question, why is a man running for president addressing an audience that, other than the 18-year-olds in grade 12, can’t vote in the upcoming Republican primary? If the real target audience for that speech are the parents of those students who will vote in the primary… then it is a political speech, and then why not include the jabs at Hillary?