John McCain has recently taken to answering questions challenging his policy choices by reminding everyone that from 1967 to 1972 he was a prisoner of war.
McCain was released some 36 years ago. He is now running for the highest office in the land. If he has not sufficiently recovered from his POW experiences a third of a century ago so as to be able to address the serious challenges the eventual holder of that office will have to face without explaining the failures of his knowledge pertaining to those issues without reference to that chapter in his life, then he is clearly not sufficiently emotionally stable to be entrusted with the responsibilities of that high office.
The more probable truth is that he is feeling a prisoner once again. He has foolishly locked himself into supporting the indefensible, failed policies of the Bush administration.
The real truth of McCain and the Republican policies is not that he was a POW. The real problem with McCain is that he is a "Po' Dubya."
-- Ira Cohen, Thousand Oaks