For McCain, does "POW" = "Politician of War"? Should he be pressed to sign Standard Form 180

[ProgressiveEconomist]

Should he be pressed to sign Standard Form 180 just as John Kerry did, to authorize releasing hundreds of pages of McCain's sealed Navy records to the press, with no deletions?

IMO, McCain's continual use of "POW" as a mantra for quashing any embarrassing question is like HRC's touting her First Lady experience as full preparation for the Oval Office. IMO, McCain should be forced to release his Navy records just as Kerry was and just as HRC was forced to release White House records.

(1) What do you think?

And (2) what is McCain trying to hide in those secret Navy records? There are several articles out in the blogosphere about five destroyed Navy aircraft that had been entrusted to McCain, from his training days in Pensacola to his 20 hours of combat bombing in Vietnam. There also are accounts of possible McCain collaboration with his Vietnamese captors, to the detriment of fellow POWs who were trying to resist their prison conditions. After Vietnam, POW/MIA activists through the early 90s seem to have been outraged by McCain's quashing the same kinds of homefront activism that had led to McCain's own release from captivity. See accounts of McCain's antics on the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs in the links at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/28/114523/989/295/577363 , and Jeffrey Klein's article in The Nation at http://www.nationinstitute.org/ifunds/79/mccain_s_secret_questionable_record .

[grannie4peace]

1. YES YES YES YES YES

[nc4bo]

2. I don't see what the big deal is (for mccain). Of course they should be released but...

I still think it shouldn't be done by Obama but from pressure outside of the campaign.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. I fully agree--Obama must take the high road. If the "press corpse"

were doing theer job, these records already would be in the public domain.

In my opinion, John McCain is like "The great and Powerful Oz", despereratly afraid somone will look behind the curtain.

There everyone would see a Dubya-like legacy, who got into the Naval Academy and got a coveted aircraft-carrier assignment only because his dad and granddad had been Admirals (McCain graduated 894th of 899). His flying career was brief and disastrous. One naval official said that McCain had gotten 28 medals for 20 hours of combat flying, a record ratio!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. Pushed down by Sarah Palin Mystery AK hype KICK

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. Pushed down by Sarah Palin Mystery AK hype KICK #2

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Pushed down by Sarah Palin Mystery AK hype KICK #3