The American Spectator

p>Senator McCain wants us, the great unwashed, to trust in government to provide for the greater good, at the expense of individualism and our natural rights. He thinks that America is great because of government, not because of its citizens. On a philosophical basis, this puts him in the exact same company as Sens. Clinton and Obama. It makes me shudder to think that he could become a presidential nominee. br> — Owen H. Carneal, Jr. br> Yorktown, Virginia /p>

Okay, it’s time to speak the unspeakable, to mention the unmentionable: the more I explore MCain’s record in politics the more it strikes me that he got slapped in the head once too often during his involuntary stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

I honor and thank John McCain for his service to my country. I respect his courage under the duress as a POW. I don’t accept that his military past should give him a pass now. He already received one pass as one of the Keating 5. I laugh aloud each time John McCain brazenly mentions Jack Abramoff in debate because he knows many Americans have short memories.

p>Then I recall John Glenn, another American who parlayed his hero status into a senatorial career and ended up a political hack, and was re-elected. And I worry about McCain’s ability to convince himself that limiting speech for Americans was right. Because, as he keeps telling me, he knows better what’s best. br> — Wolf Terner br> Fair Lawn, New Jersey /p> p> HAPPY ACCIDENT br> Re: Brooke M. Goldstein’s