We will all miss McCain

[PurgedVoter]

For a while I was angry but then I remembered the abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. One of his heroes was Daniel Webster until Webster betrayed the abolitionists who had supported him. He wrote this timeless poem in response. I think it applies well to McCain.

Ichabod - John Greenleaf Whittier

SO fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!

Revile him not,—the Tempter hath
A snare for all;
And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath,
Befit his fall!

O, dumb be passion's stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.

Scorn! would the angels laugh, to mark
A bright soul driven,
Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,
From hope and heaven!

Let not the land once proud of him
Insult him now,
Nor brand with deeper shame his dim,
Dishonored brow.

But let its humbled sons, instead,
From sea to lake,
A long lament, as for the dead,
In sadness make.

Of all we loved and honored, naught
Save power remains,—
A fallen angel's pride of thought,
Still strong in chains.

All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!

Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze,
And hide the shame!

[Old and In the Way]

1. John McCain's time has come.....

and gone. He's toast, he just doesn't know it yet.

[izzie]

2. He does good where he is but on the whole all that group

should be moving on. He is my age and we have had our day in DC and the next age group should move into running things. It was one of the reasons I disliked Reagan so. He was the wrong age and of an age when military seemed to be to important to getting things done and I think we should have out grown that. We need some new blood in Congress for sure. My thoughts go to the Jr. Sen. from Ill.

[ladjf]

3. He has fallen farther than any other celebrity I can think of.

When he came home from Viet Nam, all Americans adored and respected him as they should have. Now look what he has become.

[Bjorn Against]

4. There is nothing to miss

The guy has been a fraud since the moment he entered the Senate. Now more and more people are beginning to see his true colors.

[Disturbed]

5. He was a hero but is now a zero.

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

McLame should retire and go spend more time with his family.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. Not me.

War hero doesn't allow him to sell out. That doesn't make him a good leader for our country.