Make Believe Maverick, Tim Dickinson’s piece on John McCain in the October 18 issue of Rolling Stone is a flat-out, no-excuses, drop-everything must-read (all 11,800 words of it). UPDATE: Courtesy of commenter Gutterboy, here is a single-page link for easier reading.
The basic picture it paints of McCain – as hotheaded, entitled, misogynistic, reckless – will be all too familiar to those who have followed his career and campaigns. He was a reckless, selfish, angry jerk as a Midshipman in Annapolis, and he remains so today. Or as John Dramesi, a fellow Vietnam POW who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, puts it in the Dickinson piece: "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man. But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
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