Who Is John Sidney McCain

One of my OpenSalon friends, Greg Randolph, has put together a devastating piece from a number of sources about John McCain and what we're not learning about him. With Greg's generous permission, here are a couple of choice paragraphs:

Many times throughout this election, the McCain/Palin Campaign have asked the question, who is Barack Hussein Obama? I think it only fair to lay out just who exactly John Sidney McCain is... There's a lot of information out there on the history of John McCain if people would bother to look for it. A lot of what we think we know about McCain is overblown. The "Maverick" persona, the P.O.W. and the moralist who is anything but moral.

Like his father and grandfather, McCain enrolled in the United States Naval Academy. There, he earned over 100 demerits. His reaction was that it was "bullshit."

But it was in his off-base activities that McCain truly excelled. According to one classmate, "being on liberty with John McCain was like being in a train wreck." It is unclear what being with McCain during his presidency would be like for the nation. Unfortunately, America has no direct experience from which to draw with a president who was a temperamental son of a distinguished military man and who in college was a temperamental fuckup who liked to party. What could possibly be so dangerous about that?

There's more. I invite you to read Greg's entire post at his OpenSalon page. If nothing else, it gives you a convenient link to send to your Rickey if they seem under the spell of Rush's latest talking points.