[Forest Keeper]

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.

Do you have any documentation or news accounts describing this situation or why McCain was the only one against? I was thinking that if I was Obama (maybe he can't because of Clinton), or the MSM, or any of McCain's primary opponents, or any of his opponents for Senate re-election I would have used this information. Yet, I couldn't find anything.

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

What is the basis of your "prop" comment? If she had any decency should she have hired a baby sitter and kept him in a closet so the rest of the world couldn't see? :) She was showing the world her family, just as it is, pregnant daughter and all, WITH her boyfriend. She's not ashamed of her daughter and she's not ashamed of Trig. I wouldn't be ashamed either with that family. Where are you coming from, Kolo? :)

[Kolokotronis]

“Do you have any documentation or news accounts describing this situation or why McCain was the only one against?”

The press wasn’t invited to the meetings and though there was a press conference at the National Press Club during one visit, I am sure we weren’t going after McCain at that meeting. I know that Sen. Helms was NOT pleased with McCain. To tell you the truth, we were surprised at McCain’s reaction. We had counted on him as a sure supporter.

“If she had any decency should she have hired a baby sitter and kept him in a closet so the rest of the world couldn’t see?”

Yes, but not to hide him, to keep him safe. Infants with Down Syndrome have compromised immune systems. They catch infections very easily, especially respiratory infections which can kill them. Exposing that baby to thousands of howling politicos so she can look like the evangelicals’ idea of a good mother was abominable behavior. Clearly, her ego and lust for power has out weighed whatever maternal instincts she might have toward that baby. That the “First Dude” (God help us!) stood by as a partner in endangering that little fellow doesn’t help matters any.