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...helps that the election season has been anything but dull. The sight of a woman, a black man, a Mormon, a Christian preacher and a former POW slugging it out has been as fascinating to many of us out here as it is to American voters. Hillary Clinton appeals to many who have fond memories of her husband's presidency and those who would like to see a woman in the White House; McCain comes off as brave and decent; and in Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge...
...poked fun at McCain’s experiences in the Vietnam War (“couldn’t we pick a POW who doesn’t want to shut down Guantanamo?”) and quipped that the Arizona senator is running for President because he wants to improve his New York Times obituary. Rest assured, Ms. Coulter, that McCain will be around for a while and that your morbid desire to the contrary, fed by your frustrated ego after the rejection of your favorite conservative sweetheart Mitt Romney, is as appalling as your belief that the empty...
...passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, relives the war day in and day out. Understanding he can never move forward until he buries the corpses littered throughout his memories, Day returns to a POW camp in Germany with the avowed intent to work as an extra on a film there, but secretly hoping to “work out his own little pantomime inside the professional pretense and tunnel right through to the place where he’d lost himself, or rather...
...much more than issues. McCain was the authentic hero, the fighter pilot who had been shot down over Hanoi and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. He was the reformer and the straight talker, the rare politician who - perhaps because of his experience as a POW - wasn't going to compromise his principles or hold his tongue to please his party. He was also, at his core, still the rowdy, runty, red-tempered plebe who finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy despite an IQ of 133. McCain became a symbol...
...McCain has no shortage of other people critiquing his record as well. His campaign has had to endure a string of third-party attacks, including one nasty message alleging that the former Vietnam POW had somehow betrayed his fellow American captives. While he enjoys a solid base of support in a state with a large population of active and retired members of the military, the former Vietnam POW is dogged in the state by the same burden that sank his candidacy in Iowa - his stance on immigration. On Friday, at a campaign rally in Mt. Pleasant, one McCain supporter, Mike...