John McCain

John McCain's mostly boring, "bi-partisan", "centrist" acceptance speech was certainly at odds with the rest of the RNC's speakers. That's been noted. And clearly it will set the agenda for what will come out of *his* mouth from now until the election. Nothing but good old faux-populist rhetoric and unity and changing washington 'together'. While all this is silly and easy to see for the sham it is, there's another issue at the core of that speech and of the McCain campaign that seems to have escaped many.

John McCain's new credo is 'country first' and his speechwriter used McCain's time in a POW camp to frame the discussion, to give credibility to the idea that John McCain is a patriot first, who first learned to truly love his country when in his prison cell, doing his duty.

As he said, when he left for Vietnam - and right up until he was shot down - he was arrogant and selfish. In prison he learned humilty and patroitism and from the moment he was set free he has always put 1) himself second and 2) country first.

Then why did he cheat on his wife upon his return home? And why did he divorce her?
After she was in a debilitating car accident, after he promised before his God and community that only death would do them part? She didn't ditch him when he was imprisoned for 5 years. So why did he drop her for a beauty queen, heiress to a fortune?

Mind you, I'm not a saint and I can't say what I would have done in his shoes. But I know what he wants me to believe about him, and I know better than to believe it.

Because he is completely full of it.