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What would it take for Clinton to concede defeat? An insider remembers -- and draws lessons from -- the backroom deals that ended another brutal, racially charged Democratic slugfest.
  • When the military

    get a man back after years of captivity and torture, they pin medals on his chest, pay him honors, and give him every possible reward. The one thing they never do is put him back in a position of responsibility.

    Whether or not John McCain has been compromised permanently, and there is a lot of evidence that he has been, and is, NO SANE COUNTRY CAN TAKE THE CHANCE OF THAT BEING THE CASE.

    There are two kinds of returning prisoners that were tortured or threatened with torture:

    1. Those who told the enemy everything and cooperated with them, and then on release told our intelligence all about it, AND

    2. Those who told the enemy everything and cooperated with them and then came home and lied about it. The second are the most dangerous persons imaginable.

    John McCain is clearly the second type.

    HOW CAN ANY SANE PERSON TAKE A CHANCE ON HIM BEING WHAT I AND OTHERS SAY HE IS?

    Fact is a man will do ANYTHING under torture, ANYTHING. Things he would be ashamed of, things that he can be blackmailed for, and that is a fact. McCain simply lies when he said he was not broken by torture, or the threat of torture. We have broken every single terrorist we have gotten our hands on, how are we to believe the Red Chinese could not break Mr. Cain?