This is an awesome article about McCain. I have never liked McCain and I have read a lot about he becomes totally irrational when he is angry. I even read where one of the republican senators said he would never endorse McCain because of his behavior. Read the article as it is very sobering.
Author: Johann Hari: Don't be fooled by the myth of John McCain; Independent newspaper
A lazy, hazy myth has arisen out of the mists of New Hampshire and South Carolina. Across the pan-Atlantic press, the grizzled 71-year-old Vietnam vet, John McCain, is being billed as the Republican liberals can live with. He is "a bipartisan progressive"", "a principled hard liberal", "a decent man" – in the words of liberal newspapers. His fragile new frontrunner status as we go into Super Tuesday is being seen as something to cautiously welcome, a kick to the rotten Republican establishment.
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But the truth is that McCain is the candidate we should most fear. Not only is he to the right of Bush on a whole range of subjects, he is also the Republican candidate most likely to dispense with Hillary or Barack.
McCain is third-generation navy royalty, raised from a young age to be a senior figure in the Armed Forces, like his father and grandfather before him. He was sent to one of the most elite boarding schools in America, then to a naval academy where he ranked 894th out of 899 students in ability. He used nepotism to get ahead: when he was rejected by the National War College, he used his father's contacts with the Secretary of the Navy to make them reconsider.
Read about the actions of his father and grandfather and his attitude that the US should and can use military power indiscriminately to become an empire. This guy is whacked and very dangerous. Please read the entire article. It is on the Independent newspaper web-site under Huffington post. Need to read and forward. I think the McCain would be a much worst president than even Bush. I do not believe privacy or law would matter to him and I think he would use the "enemy combatant" mantal on anyone that opped him if he were to become president. This is not a charming, easy going guy. He said on Meet the Press that people don't seen to understand that he is a true conservative. The Military Commissions Act, that now governs Guantanamo trials is the one he and Lindsay Graham suckered people into believing would be a step back from torture, etc. and ended up giving Bush powers he had not even asked for. Because he and Graham had made such a big deal about McCain's torute, I done think anyone read the bill until after it had passed Congress and been signed by Bush. He and Graham had plans then, I think that McCain would become Prez and old Lindsey would become Attorney General. Read the article. If nothing else, it will give you background info on McCain that you probably did not have before.