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• Monday, April 3, 2006 01:58 PM

  The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

  is what McCain seems to benefit from - at least in Farhad's eyes. Sorry, but I think you've set a very low bar for Republican candidates based on Bush but continue to use a more "normal" standard for judging Democrats. Have you been paying attention at all to what McCain has been up to for his entire career? He LOOKS and SOUNDS honest, but he is every inch a politician who has been elected to national office and who wants VERY BADLY to be president. I was a fan of John McCain before his 2000 run, but ever since then, I've made a point to look at what he does and has done. He is not sincere and he does not exude political courage (I try not to mix up the courage of his time as a POW with political courage).

  How much political courage does it take for a man who was beaten and perhaps tortured as a POW to speak out against that sort of treatment toward other POW's? He had enormous capital and goodwill on that issue. Many people in this country think that we should treat POW's in accordance with our own purported values, rather than behave as our declared enemies do. A truly honest man would have cleaned the Bush Administration's clock on its torture position because it was - without question - the right thing to do. I would hardly characterize McCain's actions against torture as a clock cleaning.

  I do not mourn the "old" John McCain, as I am convinced he never existed except in my dearest political wishes.

  —TuiMel Read TuiMel's other letters
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