When Compared To The Alternatives, McCain Should Be a Shoe-In

Particularly when one looks at the dedication to the United States that 4 generations of McCains going back to the Revolutionary war have provided, to think that America might choose one of two compulsively lying resume padding ultra liberal American Democrats over this 3rd generation true American hero makes me sick to my stomach.

I am by no means a McCain sycophant but one cannot deny his love and dedication to America and in my view after what he's given this country his entire life in this present situation the country now finds itself in with choices he should be a lock to win the presidency once more Americans that aren't already become familiar with his familial history, and come to their deluded senses about the real Obama or Hillary that he'll be up against.

The New York Times had a pretty decent story about McCain and his son who is presently serving our country in the Marine corps showing he has instilled those same patriotic feelings of service in his privileged sons who could have chosen anything but the military to be in but didn't.

One thing in the article that also says a lot about the New York Times is this sentence you'll find somewhat buried o the first page:

The McCain's declined to be interviewed for this article, which the campaign requested not be published.

And so their answer to that request was basically "screw you and yours John" and they go right ahead and publish it anyway, possibly placing his son in greater risk than he already is. What a bunch of loons the people in that paper are through and through.

Vocal on War, McCain Is Silent on Son’s Service -

New York Times: "One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers — soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.

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Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or a retinue. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan’s brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army first lieutenant killed by an ambush and roadside bomb."

No one mentioned the obvious: in just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. “I can’t imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ...” Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. “We lost a dear one,” she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

In his 71 years, Mr. McCain has confronted war as a pilot, a prisoner and a United States senator, but never before as a father. His son’s departure for Iraq brought him the same worry that every military parent feels, friends say, while the young marine’s experiences there have given him a sustained grunt’s-eye view of the action and private confirmation for his argument that United States strategy in Iraq is working.

While Jimmy McCain’s service is a story all his own — he enlisted at age 17 — it illuminates the beliefs about duty, honor and sacrifice with which family friends say he was raised. Military ideals have defined Mr. McCain as a person and a politician, and he is placing them at the core of his presidential candidacy. Last week, he campaigned at his former stations of duty, explaining how the lessons he learned there would guide his decisions as commander in chief.

“If I had ignored some of the less important conventions of the Academy,” as a demerit-prone midshipman, Mr. McCain said Wednesday at the United States Naval Academy, “I was careful not to defame its more compelling traditions: the veneration of courage and resilience; the honor code that simply assumed your fidelity to its principles; the homage paid to Americans who had sacrificed greatly for our countr

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