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McCain figured out that, to get elected, he had to sell his soul. He did. It worked. What more is there to be said? No real "anger" involved in it. It is what it is. He hugs the man whose operatives once labeled his wife as a drug addict and his adopted kid as an "love child". He ended up embracing those same people. That's his choice, but I don't have to respect it.
And I wish people would have afforded Perot's VP, Stockdale, the same courtesy as they afford McCain. Both were cruelly treated and tortured by the Vietnamese - but one is a hero who no one wants to embarass (by bringing out his contact lapses) and the other was the butt of countless jokes. And Stockdale was a Medal of Honor winner for crying out loud!
I would have voted for him under the right circumstances prior to 2003, but he's ran hard right ever since and turned me off.
