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Raider Of The Lost Cause?

By The Daily Dish
Apr 9 2008, 10:15 AM ET

"The story of John McCain, beautiful fatalist. Sure he's a maverick, driven by a sense of honor and integrity that never leaves him alone. But that's the crux of it: It never leaves him alone. Integrity is a burden and a torture for John McCain, as much as it is an inspiration. He's writing a story, projected upon the national stage, about ideals and the way that they slam against the rocks of the human, all too human. The results are not very pretty. They do, however, portray a basic truth about what it is like to be a human being. He is:

    involved in mankind," -



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