Cavalry derails Fast Talk Express.
McCain flinched. The wretched coward couldn't face me on my home turf. Its bad enough I can't see his face and not wonder if I am suffering re-emergent chemically altered memories via a damaged nerve pathway, but for him to not even show up at the assigned place and time so we can publicly call him out for every treasonous capitulation is well... expected.
A P.O.W. who can still politically ally itself with an administration that condones, uses, ignores, or parses words about torture is the very symbol, the figurehead of the culture of Blackwater Warriors. A man who has been to war and seen its horrors and is benumbed. He returns to sell off his honor and dignity because they are of no use to him and he trades in his oath of sacrifice for the satisfaction of the ego. Better are true patriots; those that return home and cloak the shame of the acts of war in the Oath and their eternal devotion to it. Those who continue the fight to preserve their Constitution and defend their Country from the only forces who have ever had a chance to destroy it.
Maybe it was because Veterans for Peace had planned a protest outside the hotel where McCain would be speaking. Perhaps it was the notion that his fellow Senate Republican, from our fair State, who had pledged his support to McCain has now taken a radically different public position on the War (they still vote along similar lines) and has to distance himself from McCain so he can have a prayer of holding onto his seat. As one Oregonian who planned to be there in protest of the Neocon-Fascist agenda promoted by McCain and other sitting Republicans, I take his cowardice, no matter its cause, to be the crowning gem in a career and campaign that has become a monument to failure.
The McCain campaign says the senator is postponing his Northwest fund raisers so he can go vote on the ethics bill just sent over from the House of Representives. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is threatening a filibuster of this bill I'll be intrested to see where McCain (as well as my own Senators Smith(r) and Wyden(d) comes down on the issue of corruption as it has suddenly become so important to him.