[BluesDuke]

I am completely at a loss -- how does that guy, who constantly preaches one thing but does another, maintain this lofty status with the folks?

Hmmmmmm...because ignorance is bliss? Or - and I mean no dis against anyone who has ever worn the uniform and fought for this country and all the people thereof - because a real or alleged war hero can get away with something short of capital murder, if you remember how criticising Senator McVain so often brought thee and me denunciation for daring to speak ill of a friggin' prisoner of war, fer crissakes! And there people like we were, trying to convince such members of Assoholics Anonymous that it said nothing against McVain's bravery as a POW to point out that, politically, he was somewhere at a level barely above the paramecium... ;)

[MozarkDawg]

Yes, I suppose I will always be hit with the "Until you've walked a mile in his shoes" mantra -- although I thought one of the great blessings of being a citizen of this country is that I'm allowed to criticize the pols all I want, regardless of whether or not I've been through the same ordeals. Hey, my life's been no bed of roses ... who's has? Somehow I don't find former POW status an instant immunity to hypocrisy.