Crossed Out

The Gulag Archipelago contains absolutely no reference to the cross in the dirt story. I have to agree with the thinking that the story on McCain's cross story would have been better off left untouched. The Saddleback church event may have shown us how easy it is to question McCain's honesty, but the cross story is a bust. Who cares anyway?

I think a much larger issue remains concerning John McCain's time in Vietnam. It still does not qualify him to be President of the United States, no matter how much the Beltway media club love the idea. Bob Schaeffer did America a great disservice by dismissing (Ret.) General Wesley Clark's concerns on that matter. Dr. Phillip Butler, who was a POW for years longer than McCain in the same "facility," discusses this issue with great clarity. John McCain's time spent as a POW detracts from his qualifications rather than buttresses them, for a myriad of reasons (his quick temper being near the top).

Drop the cross story, please. There are bigger fish to fry, like what McCain has said he will do to our nation. We all know his support for the oil robber barons is true. We all know his economic policy, truly, will create a neofeudalist variety of serfdom in this nation, and go far to destroying any hope for the poor and the middle class. We all know he shouldn't have his finger on the button, because a post-apocalyptic world will just not be fun to live in. We all know how corrupt his campaign staff, contributors and rich supporters are. We don't need to catch him lying in every single statement he makes. The truth about McCain damages his image far more than his lies, of which there are, admittedly, hundreds to choose from.

I'm just saying...