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Posts Tagged ‘mccain: myth of a maverick’

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Maverick McCain’s Hero: Doomed Communist Loser Fictional Terrorist

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Do you have special heroes who help you decide what to do in your life or whatever? John McCain sure does! And they tend to be fictional characters from ridiculous juvenile books and movies, generally about how romantic it is to get shot down or blown up for some pointless bullshit cause that was always a losing proposition that wasn’t even wanted by the people it would ostensibly benefit. In other words, McCain is a 70-year-old man who still reads Hemingway books. But does he have a brave-Mexican-revolutionary costume for Halloween? MORE »