I'm not bucking for a "McCain in '08" chapter chairmanship
. . . . then you continued on and provided all sorts of excuses for his behavior during the MIA/POW debate when he teamed up with John Kerry to slap the families of these missing soliders right in the face. What you say, and what you do, are apparently two different things.
then you continued on and provided all sorts of excuses for his behavior during the MIA/POW debate when he teamed up with John Kerry to slap the families of these missing soliders right in the face. I didn't "provide excuses" for Senator McCain's behavior, I simply offered possible explanations for some actions about which you had formed hard and fast opinions on little or no information. As to "splapping families of missing soldiers right in the face...", I am aware that during the MIA/POW hearings there were some families (and other "interested parties" who wrapped themselves in the POW/MIA flag for reasons which neither you nor I can know) who were either not satisfied with the explanations they had been given, or were concerned that the POW/MIA issue would disappear from the public consciousness if a report emerged from the hearings that did not hold out hope that there were US POWs still living in captivity in Vietnam. I also know that Senator McCain, being somewhat of a hot-head (one of his less desirable traits) had grown tired with the accusations of "cover-up", and with the confrontational tactics of some of the self-appointed POW/MIA advocates. Both McCain and (predictably) Kerry, lashed back at their attackers in an immature way that did them little credit. How that in any way constitutes "treason", however, is something I won't hold my breath waiting for you to explain. All I would say to you is that there were other former POWs in Hanoi with John McCain who later went on to become public figures (and even members of Congress) in their own right. To my knowledge (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), none (as in not one) of these former POWs feels the way you do about John McCain. What does that tell you, that they're all "traitors"?
We all understand that families who have relatives who are MIA would be very passionate about learning what happened to their loved ones, passionate even to the point of irrationality. We had a recent graphic illustration of that with the "Jersey Girl" widows of 9/11 victims, who chose to blame President Bush, rather than Osama Bin Laden, for deaths of their husbands. It is up to all of us to understand their pain and their loss, without necessarily agreeing with every complaint and accusation made by these benighted individuals.