McCain - unfit to lead? Options

[HammaTime]

All I can say is, Wow.

I just finished reading a piece that will be published in the October 16 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine on the life of John McCain. It quickly becomes painfully obvious that an awful lot of his former friends, associates and fellow POW's really detest the man.

It is a brutal, brutal take on the man and his legend:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstor...eal_john_mccain

[Blitz]

John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
By John S. McCain III, Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy

John McCain spent 5½ years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam. His first-person account of that harrowing ordeal was published in U.S. News in May 1973. Shot down in his Skyhawk dive bomber on Oct. 26, 1967, Navy flier McCain was taken prisoner with fractures in his right leg and both arms. He received minimal care and was kept in wretched conditions that he describes vividly in the U.S. News special report:

This story originally appeared in the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S.News & World Report.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/0...t.html?PageNr=1

Read his actual story from him 35 years ago..

[HammaTime]

Okay, Robert shamed me into looking around a bit more. Talking Point Memo has just posted a link to the Rolling Stone article under the headline: "Lying and Recklessness Not New?"

I can think of no single angle on that article that is more damaging to McCain. His approach to the economic crisis was to pull a stunt. I don't know if you've seen the ongoing barrage of blowback he is suffering from David Letterman, but that has been all about lying. He claimed he had to rush back to Washington to save the country and then went on Katie Couric's show and then didn't arrive in Washington until midday the next day. I'm sure there is a good excuse out there (although I haven't heard a single response), but the damage has been monumental as Letterman has a sizable audience, to say nothing of the millions of watchers on YouTube.

This just isn't the same man who rode the Straight Talk Express in 2000.