Curator

I think the telling aspect of McCain's character is that he came back from Vietnam to the wife who had stayed married to him all those years.

The wife is Carol who had once been quite a babe herself apparently, until a near-fatal car accident (while McCan’t was in Vietnam) left her 4 inches shorter, overweight and on crutches. The wife who dutifully raised and cared for McSame's three children...alone.

Carol stayed true to her husband until his return, and who then promptly divorced her to marry his wealthy mistress the beer heiress and run for political office on her money.

Nothing else seems to compare in importance.

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HarperLee

It is a well-established fact that Karl Rove was behind the 2000
South Carolina Republican primary smear campaign to spread the
rumor that McCain had fathered an illegitimate biracial child.

Fast forward to today -- Karl Rove now works for McCain. What
father, adoptive or otherwise, would forgive anyone who made his
child the focus of a political smear campaign.

(There may be more to this story. The little girl, adopted from
Bangladesh, never appears in family portraits. I hope they kept her.
Maybe she was a political liability.)

HarperLee

To be fair, it does appear that the child adopted from Bangladesh,
Bridget, is still with the McCain family:

McCain's children avoid the limelight - The Boston Globe

Mithrall

This is the issue with McCain that really bothers me. If I were married with kids and someone attacked them like the Bush campaign did. I would have sucker punched him at the next possible opportunity, not given him a big hug.

ibex

I've pointed this out so many times, but you've done it better. You will never, ever hear the stupid, rabid righties here and elsewhere address this personal issue that strikes at the heart of "family values." Obviously, McCain values his political power more than his family.

HarperLee

I think you and I are the only ones who have ever been bothered
by it, at The Other Place or here. Mithrall is a good guy (?)

babylonDon

There are several aspects of this that bother me quite a bit.

In 2000, I wasn't enamored of John Mccain, but I did have some grudging respect for him. He seemed to be beyond the sloganeering and came across as more genuine, than almost any Repub I'd ever seen.

The Bushies smeared him, and derailed him in despicable ways, usually reserved for Dems. And he seemed to be better than them, above all that.

But he's reversed every position I ever admired him for taking. And he's completely adapted the Bushco trappings and backers and positions.

This man is willing to wear any mask that puts him in the White House. And clearly, he has no values that would prevent him from selling his soul, to get there.

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anhailla

I guess right wingers think you have more moral fortitude when you cheat on the wife and then dump her

makes perfect sense eh?

I for one am none too interested in politicians romantic affairs....but right wingers raise this issue of "values" and then proceed to show they value nothing

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TrueBlueAmerican

He's Israel's inside man. If McCain wins get ready for a new series of long wars in the region. Iran and Syria are up next.

HarperLee

Hillary Clinton is on the same page.