You're right, but how he handled that experience reveals the character within. In the end, there is no way to know what situation a President is going to be confronted with and the only thing you can rely on is his character. Clinton and the mishandling of Kosovo and Bosnia are great illustrations of what happens with someone with no character. Bush and his response to 9-11 is what happens when you have someone with character.
For me, when I learned that McCain turned down release from Hanoi because there were others who had been captured before him I knew I would vote for him.
“You’re right, but how he handled that experience reveals the character within. In the end, there is no way to know what situation a President is going to be confronted with and the only thing you can rely on is his character. Clinton and the mishandling of Kosovo and Bosnia are great illustrations of what happens with someone with no character. Bush and his response to 9-11 is what happens when you have someone with character.”
Interesting observations, WF. Let me provide a little about the Senator’s character for coddling genocidal communists back in the nineties. Back under Clinton there was a movement among the Lao and their supporters all around the globe to restore representative democracy to Laos. Clinton and his State Dept. naturally supported the Pathet Lao regime. The overwhelming majority of members of Congress of both houses supported the Lao from all levels of Lao society working for democracy. I became very involved with the leaders of that movement. To that end I spent a great deal of time in DC working the halls of Congress. Among the Senators, the two biggest supporters were Jesse Helms and Paul Wellstone, demonstrating the breadth of the appeal of the cause of the Lao people. In fact every Senator supported the Lao except one, McCain, who went positively beserk at the idea of using American diplomatic and economic influence to effect the establishment of a representative government in Vientiane. He did everything he could to stymie our efforts in support one of the world’s most genocidal regimes. I was there; I know. It therefore came as no surprise to me that McCain has embraced the Islamic terrorists of Albania and Kosovo, supporting their cause with American military, financial and diplomatic might or that his present campaign, as were earlier ones, is in great measure financed by American lackeys of those killers. And now he picks as his running mate a woman who uses her four month old child with Down Syndrome as a prop at a political convention.
Some character! /s
Unfortunately, we already know how he would have handled it, because Clinton did what McCain would have gladly done for him. His support for the Bosnian and Kosovo Mohammedans is well known.
Character he has, but his judgment is a different story. He used his judgment to co-sponsor an immigration amnesty bill with Edward Kennedy, and to vote for stem cell research, and on numerous other issues that clashed with mainline Republicans.
Character is one thing; judgment is another. Character is a gun; judgment is what you do with it. There is no guarantee that having character will result in the right judgment.