America's Tarnished Hero
  No, Not A Hero
 
John McCain is a tarnished hero.
John McCain was put through horrific torture for a ridiculously long period -- for over five years. He survived with mental and physical scars.
But John McCain was a passive participant. His captors actively captured, injured, and tortured him. None of that was his own doing. He had the misfortune to be shot down while flying.
John McCain withstood the trials and tribulations that were forced upon him each day for over five years.
John McCain outlasted his captors because he lasted long enough to have politicians do a deal for him and his fellow prisoners' release.
John McCain was a passive participant in the prison camp. He successfully resisted his torturers. He survived hour-by-hour until, after more than five years, he was released.
He actively resisted and outlasted his captors because of his personal desire to survive.
John McCain did not actively fight the enemy, attack any strongholds, or wage war against the enemy following his capture.
John McCain is a hero to John McCain.
John McCain is a role model for anyone who is put through difficult times of illness, personal relationship, financial fallout, and more.
John McCain willingly accepted and experienced the greatest challenge of his life during 2008.
He fought for and won the right to represent his nation in its resistance of the force of evil and socialism. He volunteered to actively fight a taker of individual rights, inhibitor of liberty, and dismantler of capitalism.
John McCain failed to rise to the challenge. He fought passively. He failed to aggressively fight to win.
Most egregiously -- and not to be forgiven -- John McCain failed to actively fight the now-empowered force that is actively dismantling capitalism, taking our individual rights, and destroying liberty in America.

A site visitor wrote:

John McCain a tarnished hero:  Can we voting Americans really place blame on McCain for not winning the election? Sure, his campaign could have been stronger, but he fought to represent us. We - Americans - turned our backs on him. Besides, Democrats fought a dirty game, not fair. The Democrats will not blame McCain for losing; they will only praise Obama for winning against a formidable opponent.
Response:

You reacted as a highly-charactered, patriotic, civil intellectual. You used logic and fact. There is no need to debate this issue for beyond political interest it can accomplish little.

However, there is great value in briefly reviewing the situation.

Significantly, both you and I are totally correct in all of our statements and we are both correct in our conclusions.

The lesson to be learned from the McCain experience is important in that it can teach us how to tailor our competitive spirit, fighting tactics, and strategy to likely result in personal successes.

Of course John McCain is a fine, charactered, decent American who works to promote himself and his ideals to varying degrees as he sees appropriate to the specific fight. That is as we also should be and should do. I do not attempt to distract or take anything away from John McCain. No one could. His record is recorded history. He is a man of the finest character. However, dark interests have now been empowered and can diminish John McCain's future accomplishments because he lost this election.

McCain's fine character is of no import now. BO's lacking character allowed him to fight to win at all costs.
The Candidate:

McCain fought hard enough against all Republican contenders to win the nomination. When he won, he accepted responsibilities. One of those responsibilities was to do his best to win the election for president. He volunteered, he fought to win in his volunteering effort, and he accepted the responsibility to win.
BO fought to win. He used every tactic imaginable. We need not identify any of them here since you are well aware and will become more aware of them in the coming years observing Obama's actions.

McCain failed to fight to win. McCain failed to fight as if his America was on the block. It was on the block.

McCain should not have fought to win the nomination if he would not fight -- wage the war to save America -- in ways needed to win the election.
There were several junctures in the campaign wherein John McCain failed to activate, define, and take a stand on major conceptual levels. McCain failed to identify himself as standing for specific high-level issues. This is one reason why he failed to win marginal voters and the election.
I will use only one specific incident to prove the concept of my essay. This one example is consistent with McCain's broad approach throughout the campaign. I believe that he learned this behavior during the five-plus years of captivity. It allowed him to survive the Hanoi Hilton hell. It smoothed and blunted his campaign positions and allowed him to lose.
A Very Public Incident Displayed McCain's Lacking:

Town hall meeting in Wisconsin, around mid-September, 2008:

A man in the audience stood up and, with gusto, asked McCain to please stop that socialist from becoming president. McCain reacted by turning his back 180 degrees from the man and smirked to the other half-audience and TV camera. McCain then turned back to the questioner who continued and I quote roughly here: "Really, Senator McCain, we need you to stop this socialist from taking over our nation. Please stand up and fight for us". The crowd cheered loudly. McCain only passively acquiesced. McCain never fully accepted the honor of defending America.
The Import:

Only a few weeks into BO's presidency we can see where he, his character, his beliefs will be dragging the United States of America. He is undoing centuries of efforts applied by hundreds-of-millions of people of many nationalities who labored physically and mentally over the last millennium to build Western Civilization and the ultimate pinnacle of that being, the greatest nation imaginable, the United States of America.

The 2008 election was the responsibility of John McCain to win for all Americans, all future generations, all past generations, and to uphold principles that are important beyond our comprehension.

John McCain failed to fight to win at all costs. He lost because of that failing. He is a tarnished hero for -- within a situation of extreme magnitude of import -- he passively surrendered his potential win. He tarnished his hero status for not fighting to his utmost.

Because he lost, Americans lost and BO won. Now everything from executive pay to taxes to bullets to energy-independence to the final outcome in Iraq, and much more will change per BO's Frank Marshall Davis' training, Alinsky's method, and William Ayers' direction.

Every person in all civilized nations will suffer under this evil, self-centered, controlling bully.

These are most desperate times.
 
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