Bob McCarty Writes

I had the privilege 20 years ago of working for Brig. Gen. Ralph T. Browning, a man who spent nearly seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.  Through working for him, I feel like I know something about the character of John McCain.

At the time, General Browning was commander of the 313th [...]

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Writer Paul Bedard published nearly a dozen posts today at the U.S. News & World Report Washington Whispers blog. Two of them dealt with photos and film footage of the place where John McCain spent five years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. Before the 2008 presidential race is over, those two should [...]

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In the video below, the latest video direct from the DNC Gift Shop (via Bruce Chapman Productions), several products are unveiled for the first time. Among them is a never-before-seen photo of John McCain as a prisoner of war inside the “Hanoi Hilton.”
The photo, from Gen. Wesley Clark’s private collection, shows how Republican nominee [...]

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I’m not a fan of Nelson Mandela. Whether or not you are, I suspect you might appreciate some parallels that can be drawn between the lives of the anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and that of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Mandela took office in 1994 at the age of 77 [...]

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