I’ve enjoyed most of the speeches I’ve heard this week at the convention. I feel that our party is united as it was back in 1992. And I’m confident (but not overconfident) that Obama-Biden will win in November
But I’m sick of hearing every speaker praising McCain’s "service" and telling us that he loves his country.
Don’t get me wrong, every POW deserves our sympathy for the pain they’ve endured. McCain included. And I realize that wounds from the Vietnam era are still fresh. But sympathy doesn’t always need to equal praise. McCain wound up a POW because his plane happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and it got shot down. And he wasn’t some poor grunt from a poor Appalachian town or an inner-city ghetto, he was a career military officer who got into Annapolis because he came from a family of admirals.
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