The McCain Tear-jerkoff Hey, is everyone aware that McCain was a prisoner in Hanoi - that's Viet-nam, for the geographically-unaware among us? I thought I reminded everyone, just in case.
What impressed me most at yesterday's GOP convention finale was the video that introduced McCain to us. They had this section where the narrator was disclosing that, shortly after McCain got caught and locked up in Hanoi, his loving daddy had no choice but follow the plan and order the carpet-bombing of that very same city.
Ahhh... the humanity of it all!
I was all tears, thinking like a daddy. Can anyone even begin to feel and dare grasp the incredible pain but also the heroic determination that's illustrated by this situation? Having to carpet-bomb a city while your own son is held prisoner inside that city? It's... priceless. It's an Oprah moment but spiced up with Jerry Springer-like energy. One can only begin to imagine all those burning... things, smelly things. I believe they live in huts over there... limbs flying around, those disgusting, bloody, mutilated corpses, all endangering the life and well-being of poor but brave, precious Jhonny McCain, trying to survive in a city that his own daddy is carpet-bombing.
It's tragic and it's inspiring.
Oh, and McCain showed all this moral and heroic quality. Believe it or not, he did NOT jump the line when it came to get out of the POW hotel and he DID allow the POWs who got caught before him to go home before him. He does tell us that, not taking advantage of his privileged situation, this one time, was VERY hard but... he heroically followed the rules of basic decency. Once.
And that's why, my friends, McCain should be given the job of president of the United States.