"Back in the day, John McCain was the sort of politician who would stand first in line to call out this sort of swill. (As, I am sure Barack Obama or John Kerry would do, if some hate-crazed, money-grubbing left-winger published a book claiming that McCain had been successfully brainwashed in Vietnam--as Kerry did indeed do when a group of spurious Bush-backing Vietnam vets tried to claim exactly th" . . . . .