Who is that man?


It seems that we already know as much as we are going to know about John McCain
Which leaves much of him veiled in secrecy.

Who is the real John McCain and what does he stand for?

Here’s the little we know:

He is for war….perhaps another 100 years more.

And he is against interference with the economy. Didn’t we hear that previously from a man named Hoover.

And in between those two extremes, he doesn’t seem to have much to add.

If we take him at his word, he is a Conservative—although some would never consider him from that perspective.

He has toyed with switching parties we know from the published results of Kerry’s notes.


And that he seems to like Joe Lieberman, the man who let down his party and turned against his democratic president.

Lieberman reminds me of Lord High Executioner in the Pirates of Penzance.

Or perhaps the self-appointed Grand Panjandrum of the Lieberman for President Committee irrespective of whether it has any adherents.

Beyond that, we know that McCain was a prisoner of war for five years which qualifies him for what?

And that he has been married twice and has an adopted child of Ethiopian extraction that the 527’s were trying to change into an “illegitimate black child” which of course, is entirely non relevant as well as untrue.

Aside from that, we don’t know all that much about John McCain except that he can get under the skin of members of his own party and is oftentimes shunned by the more extreme elements as not being one of them, which is at least a starting point.

This seems startling since he’s been around the halls of Congress virtually forever.


Perhaps we should know more before entrusting the future of the Nation to someone who may be by temperament completely unsuited to the task.

If McCain wants to be treated seriously like a candidate, shouldn’t he go out of his way to fill out the blanks in his dossier?

Or is there really not that much to John, a man of simple and direct tastes.

If so, it would be too reminiscent of what we already have.

And look how that journey of discovery turned out…


Les Aaron