No. Just no.

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To know that a man who has lived into seven decades and has lived an incredibly full and varied life would so easily throw away the notion of equality and the search for a way to prevent harm is almost enough to make me despair for life itself. As I stated in a previous post, I used to respect John McCain; I used to think he was a man of honor and one who learned from his mistakes. In that post I stated that it was McCain's willingness to cozy up to a man who questioned his patriotism, the thing that was so terribly won by McCain in war, that caused my disillusionment with McCain. I got it completely wrong in that post. The true nature of my lack of respect for McCain couldn't come from a lack of boundary when dealing with someone who was once overtly disingenuous and cruel toward him; the lack of respect must assuredly come from the fact that McCain himself has embraced an idea that is antithetical to equality in action and thought. McCain has become the thing I thought he abhorred; McCain has become a man who puts his drive for power, money and political office before all else. He didn't learn from his mistakes; or, he didn't learn the lesson we thought he had learned. He learned to be more discrete and to hide his true values in order to work toward the greater power, the greater cosseting of anything that could build him up and others down. John McCain learned to say one thing and think another with the ease and duplicity of a sociopath.

I will never understand how it is possible someone could value their own interests over the greatness that is humanity. There is no way for us to measure humanity against monetary value because monetary value is nothing more than a temporary, made up notion. Monetary value is a part of us only insofar as we have thought it up and acted upon it. Value cannot be places on something that is nothing more than idea. Value, Mr. McCain, is real, concrete and inviolable. It does not change. It does not give or take. Value simply is. When McCain so flippantly declared that it doesn't matter when our soldiers come home he told the world that he did not place value on their lives. I suspect McCain would say the same thing about people working at Wal-Mart or paramedics (who are paid so little) or people with disabilities; we do not enhance his life except as a way to get something that has no intrinsic value, so we do not matter. "It doesn't matter." Yes, Mr. McCain, it does. Our soldiers lives matter. Our lives as biological members of the human race matter. Our willingness to do great things and to be great people is enough of an example of why we matter. McCain's value as a human being matters. My value matters. And god help us all, the lives of those dying in Iraq matter.

John McCain told us who he is and we need to believe him.

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