"Some folks are born sliver spoon in hand/Lord don't They help themselves. . ."
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"Some folks inherit star spangled eyes, ooh, they send you down to war, Lord/but when you ask them, how much should we give/ the only answer is more, more, and more. . .."

-- Song lyrics from Credence Clearwater song "Fortunate Son."

Prisoners of war in the USA who were with John McCain in Hanoi say he collaborated with Hanoi to get special treatment, thus showing what a real fortunate son, prisoner of his own privilege and one with a phony faith in his own false sense of entitlement McCain was in giving in so heavily to Hanoi and yet having the nerve today to pass
himself off as a "war hero." This is the reason Doug Valentine in CounterPunch says McCain is so completely unstable and just a termper tantrum waiting to go nuclear, and most likely, this writer says, would if he gets to the White House. Just picture that mushroom cloud and the Strontium 90 that wouldn't just be for breakfast anymore, for that breakfast of "macho champions." "These are the stakes. . . " as that TV ad put it so aptly in that 1964 campaign with another Arizonan, who fortunately never got to the White House. But hell for those who like nuclear war, they'll love McCain. Oh, this same McCain wants a hundred year war-- "when you ask them (or him) how much should we give . . ." McCain is just waiting to explode over be found out in what a phony about being a "war hero."

Doug Valentine cites chapter and verse on McCain collaborated with Hanoi to get special treatment in his account based on prisoners of war who were with McCain. McCain, the "war hero" not only didn't just give name, rank, and serial number as is required of US military captured by the enemy, but actually provided Hanoi with such "lovely" information as the name of the air craft carrier he was based on, the number of aircraft in his formation, number of pilots who were lost, where rescue ships were at the time, with all this being enough to the "wonderful war hero" even until now, making him as Thad Corcoran, a GOP senator has said someone the senator trembles at the thought of being in the White House with his finger on nuclear trigger. Valentine maintains McCain was a "go to" collaborator with Hanoi for years, and that is really what is eating him up, making him the time bomb just waiting go off. Thus McCain is a phony who is covering up more than a bit or to use a Churchillian phrase, "He's modest, and he's got lots to be modest about."

But then again McCain was quite tight with the Keating gang, the USA's top bank con artists back in 1980s when that "lovely" scandal broke and he escaped from that one and his profitable associating with these criminals, which the US mainstream media seem to love to ignore, but then again these folks know which side their bread is buttered on and that they are big time members of the ruling and wealthy immoral species running and ruining the USA. But they can't win them all. Hey, was't that "just terrible" all that "rabble out in the streets" destroying "wonderful tranquility" of the US ruling and privileged class lately. "Damn," why it's "just terrible." What do "those people" want? The solidly progressive journalist, Alexander Cockburn is the source of the information on the Keating scandal. All of this is backed up in CounterPunch. As the song at the opening of this article says, "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand/Lord don't they help ;themselves . ."

Johnny "Straight BS" McCain, "our man" in the USA, was and is a fortunate son, prisoner of privilege, and someone with the phony faith of his legacy of his father in "true faith" of the political and economic theology of the rich white man's affirmative action program going strong big time for hundreds of years as brought over to this country from Europe, and especially Western Europe. His false sense of entitlement almost surely comes from being son and grandson of two big time US Navy admirals, giving him the idea he should always get what he wants including the presidency.