McCaint's latest campaign tactics are easy to understand after reading the Rolling Stone piece

[Bozita]

IMHO, the most important piece of journalism this week.


Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
BY TIM DICKINSON
Posted Oct 16, 2008 7:00 PM

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At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.

McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.

There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

more at ... http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1

[BrklynLiberal]

1. That article should be required reading for everyone who has ever considered voting for McSame!!!

[jkshaw]

2. That piece was indeed great and full of good

information, color. I've sent it off to both my daughters.

[Tigress DEM]

3. Ah and my husband is watching DemocracyNow so I've got my brain on 2 channels.

I am VERY happy about Obama as my choice and I know the other side is going to try and cheat, but the extent is even worse than I thought


AND reading this article from the Rolling Stone makes me realize even as hard line as I have been against McInsane, I was only skimming the surface of the toxic waste he leaves in the wake of his passing.


I DO think I'm gonna barf.



:puke:

[Tigress DEM]

4. btw KICK and rec

[ReadTomPaine]

5. K&R - Give this a read, everyone.

[dmr]

6. kick

[trof]

7. K&R. Worth the time to read. Thanks.

[lazyriver]

8. This is a fantastic article. I printed a copy and left it on the desk

of a fundie freeper I work with.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. ...

:kick:

[OakCliffDem]

10. Yea, McCain's adventures in Hanoi transformed him

Transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into the callow and reckless old fart of a politician we see today.