A Hero and a Toddler

[ndrosen]

I did not agree with a number of John Sidney McCain’s political positions, and based on things I have read about him, he was hot-tempered, he behaved unethically as an adult on various occasions, and his nickname at the Academy was “McNasty.” All of that said, he was not only a hero at war and in the Hanoi Hilton, but a patriotic statesman whose love of his own country did not stop him from being a well-wisher of others, a statesman who sought to normalize relations with Vietnam, and a man who tried to do what he could for the oppressed around the world.

He was a man who would rather be a loser by the standard of worldly success than a scoundrel who would do anything to win. With all his faults, he was a decent and solid human being in a way which our current president seems unable to understand, much less imitate.