On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:17:11 -0700, Mike wrote:

I was particularly struck and humbled by the words of Charlie Cook in
today's National Journal:


No matter what your politics, John McCain is an American hero. We owe
him a great deal of respect. We are very lucky to have candidates of his
calibre in America!


Because he had a PRIVILEGED Admiral father in the service..
His poor scores in pilot's school...
He dis-obeyed commands about his mission...
Leading him to be shot down.....
Loosing a multi-million $$$ aircraft....(beside the other three)
breaking under 5 years of torture and brainwashing...
being "nuts" as described by his own party in 2000

Any other servicemen would not have made it past flight school much less
not be court-marshaled for loosing 4 Aircraft. It sure would be nice to
be one of the privileged, then of course I'd vote for him as a hero!