At what point did McCain recover from the trauma of Viet Nam that caused him to cheat on his wife?

[wyldwolf]

Sean - inquiring minds want to know.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. hahahaha Excellent question. From what I have heard, he had never gotten over that.

[wyldwolf]

2. Sean - was it the trauma from Viet Nam that made McCain help Charles Keating in 1989?

[Mabus]

3. Sean - was it the trauma from Viet Nam that made McCain sing 'Bomb, bomb, Iran"?

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4. Sean - was it the trauma from Viet Nam that made McCain offer birthday cake to the Shrub

while American lives along the Gulf coast were forever being changed during Katrina?

[goddess40]

5. my thoughts exactly nt

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6. Sean - was it the trauma from Viet Nam that makes McCain think torture is okay?

You'd think he'd be adamantly against. :shrug:

[Gabi Hayes]

7. "Those ffffing G***s made me do it!"

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8. Sean - is it the trauma from Viet Nam that makes McCain hire lobbyists for his campaign

that represent the industries that need to be regulated?

[Mabus]

9. Sean - was it the trauma from Viet Nam that made McCain tell dirty stories to reporters

about his other extramarital affairs to the point where they voluntarily take him off the record least the public find out?

Why can John McCain gab so freely as he rides around on his bus? Let’s go back to Campaign 2000, when this glorious joy-ride began; let’s recall what made it so easy for McCain to blab back then. Perhaps in the grip of the “Stockholm Syndrome” which Joe Klein attributed to McCain’s press corps, Nancy Gibbs blurted an embarrassing truth, right in the pages of Time:

GIBBS (12/13/99): There is no entourage, no bubble of staff members around him...And then there are the stories he tells—to which, if there's a pattern, it's to exalt other people and deflate himself. A presidential candidate is not supposed to talk at length and on the record about the rules he broke or the strippers he dated, or the time he arrived so drunk that he fell through the screen door of the young lady he was wooing. The candor tells you more than the content, and reporters sometimes just decide to take him off the record because they don't want to see him flame out and burn up a great story.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh040208.shtml

[Gabi Hayes]

12. great link! Daily Howler is almost always right on the mark, reminding us of our

lost history

speaking of which:

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=261&t=SecrecyandPrivilege.dwt

[Mabus]

14. I love consortiumnews.com

Those Parry boys are great.

[WinkyDink]

10. Methinks it was this point:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/cindy-mccains-fortune-pro_n_94833.html

Or this one:
http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/what-can-a-beer-fortune-buy-mccain/

[Mabus]

11. He was a busy bee before Cindy

A busy, busy bee. Cindy was just the one who had enough money and influence for him to make the jump.

[4themind]

13. A very good question

and one which I also thought of after reading Sean's comments. I would love to see his metrics and sufficient conditions for measuring McCain's "adulterous" state of mind at that point versus right now. I think that Sean may very well have walked into a trap of his own making by putting up that argument.