John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS
“John McCain, war hero and former U.S. presidential candidate, dead at 81”
I know we are to speak nothing but good of the dead.
But I simply cannot do that in John McCain's case.
The truth is that most articles eulogizing him simply reflect a lack of real knowledge.
Apart from the appealing boyish smile, this was in fact a man who shared many of the extremely unpleasant qualities of Donald Trump.
Even the war hero stuff is close to offensive when you know the truth, and I am not even considering the testimony of a number of men who were also prisoners of war with him and who tell terrible tales of him using his influence - his father was a big admiral, and the Vietnamese knew that - to gain privileged treatment.
I wrote a researched article about him back at the time he was running for office.
The facts speak for themselves. Here it is:
https://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/john-mccain-a-matter-of-character/
And here is another small piece which may interest readers:
https://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/the-fighter-pilot-and-the-princess-in-americas-presidential-primaries/
