[IWE] Rolling Stone bio on McC

[Ashton Brown]

For anyone needing depth to round out whatever McC impressions have 
stuck - -
Here's 10 'pages':
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Contains also 'Mad Dog Palin'
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin


  /Make-Believe Maverick /


    * A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a
    disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty*

By TIM DICKINSONPosted Oct 16, 2008 7:00 PM

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."

[. . .]

<Intermission cartoon>

Gratuitous blog exchange on Fluffy-bunny-Sarah:

winnecott

doh....Columbia, Harvard, Pres. Harvard Law Review in this corner and in 
this corner a journalism student (U of Idaho) who cannot even name a 
single periodical she reads.

End of any argument.

- + LAR1969

Should be the end of the argument. Should be. But won't be. And that's 
the whole problem, in a nutshell.