Shocked!

Maybe I haven't been paying attention for the last several decades, because if I had, I'm sure I might think it was a cheap ploy to bring it up now -- but John McCain actually let us know tonight, talking about himself, that he'd been a prisoner of war.

I can't imagine the persuasion it must have taken for him to bring it up, at least a dozen times, dismissive as he is to the politics of personality.

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And does anyone else who works with community nonprofits find it sad that the party has reduced a thousand points of light to one point of ridicule?