Sing it, Kevin! McCain likes to present his past as past and his time in a prison camp as a transformative experience, but the fact is that his experience as a POW transformed nothing. In fact, it amplified his fundamental belief in his own self-righteousness, something he’s used ever since as an unending justification for …
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Out here the live coverage of the conventions superceded the national news shows due to our time zone, so I hadn’t seen this. It’s ABC’s Brian Ross doing a 5-minute report on Palin’s firing of the Public Safety Commissioner, allegedly because he refused to fire her former brother-in-law.
Granted McCain had a tough act to follow after his running mate’s gorge on red meat last night, but still. That was the dullest speech I’ve heard from a candidate in years. Your thoughts?