There have been some really bizarre and bad decisions made in this election cycle.

Rudy Giuliani's going all-in in Florida and folding his hand everywhere else; Bill Clinton's comparing Barack Obama to Jesse Jackson in South Carolina; Obama's odd and revealing diatribe about paranoid, foreigner-hating Americans who cling to guns and Bibles for solace.

But Wesley Clark's little grenade, which went off in his own face Sunday, will rank right up there with the biggest blunders of the season.

The retired general, erstwhile Democratic presidential candidate and perhaps former Obama vice presidential hopeful decided, for some reason known only to him, to attack John McCain -- on his war record, of all things.

That record, by the way, includes spending five-and-a-half excrutiating years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

"That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded," Clark said to trivialize McCain's executive experience on CBS' Face the Nation , "that wasn't a wartime squadron."

Then, Clark added, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."

And "community organizing" in Chicago is?

"Please," summed up a blogger at ABC News, "find me a single Democrat who thinks it's good politics to call into question the military credentials of a man who spent five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war."

Actually, as ABC News points out, McCain isn't running on his war record at all.

And judging from Clark's bomb on CBS, neither should McCain's opponents.