I am so sick of hearing about McCain's heroism, especially when it is referred to as an excuse, a blank check to pay for every politically greedy and cowardly stance he takes, every lie he deals in, every sign of gross incompetence and unfitness for office.
Today on the Chris Matthews' show, the McCain supporter called out Obama for daring to "impugn McCain's commitment to veterans." The illogical premise is that, by default, anyone who served nobly in a war is unquestionably committed to others who serve. Also, a war hero's service renders his political judgment as sterling as his medals. If such a hero wants to bomb,bomb Iran or use the purse strings to force vets to endless tours in his pals' endless and useless war, no one, certainly not his political rival, should challenge his wisdom or his compassion for the young men and women he and his pals are so ill using.
Rubbish! By extension, this nonsensical meme implies that a drunken general who takes his men into an ambush and loses them all can't be criticized because he was a hell of a soldier in his day. It means that regardless of motive, breadth of greediness or depth of political cowardice or malfeasance, any man who served his country well ipso facto can never serve it poorly, especially if his opinion is compared to anyone who hasn't so served. How utterly stupid!!
Suggestion: Stop prefacing any comment regarding McCain's policies or Commander- in- Chiefishness with a salute to his past heroics. A stupid person can have been a hero. A mean-spirited, evil, completely pathological person can have demonstrated fearlessness and self-sacrifice in one situation and a wildly craven nature in another. A Vietnam-war hero, even a LEGEND like McCain, whose conduct in captivity makes most mortals look like wusses, can be a political coward.
To whit, McCain endorses the carnage in Iraq as the cost of oil , has abused families of MIA, now embraces governmental greed, corporate inhumanity, and military madness instead of what is right, and doesn't even own up to his own moral corruption but instead casts aspersions on the guy who actually is standing up for vets.
McCain was lucky not to need a leg up when he came back from the horrors of war. He's been lucky ever since. And he's been in the pocket of his sponsors ever since too.
McCain was once a great hero. He is now a war-mongering, reckless, bumbling, and morally bankrupt TOAD, ashamed to be counted in on what's he's REALLY in on, and so unconscionable that he casts aspersions on the political rival who is honoring the young that he, in collusion with other gutless hawks, is misleading. Oh--and he's a big fat MISER too! As Somerset Maughn put it, people are "made of motley" and good character traits and bad are not mutually exclusive. Obviously, in McCain, we have lots of motley, most of it plain wrong and bad.