It is always amazing when someone says something half the people in the room are thinking, but are aware they dare not say it. That happened recently in the White House concerning Sen. McCain. People were shocked, not as they claimed by the thought, but by the near-suicidal naïveté of the speaker.
Senator John S. McCain, III, 81, is dying of brain cancer. In this long life he has been the son and grandson of Admirals, an Annapolis grad, a Navy pilot, a multi-year prisoner of war, a Senator, a major party presidential candidate, a husband and a father.
McCain has unquestionably done much to win our approval and thanks. He has also been almost as big a pain in the neck for his own party - the Republicans - as for the Democrats, at least nominally his opponents.
As his health fails we are loath to criticize him, as he has nearly achieved "don't speak ill of the dead" status. Yet he seems determined to be a stumbling block with his final breath.
Let's wish him an easy death, and some good days between now and then. Honestly, that's about as much as most of us can hope for.
