Some Thoughts From Chicago

Driftglass, a writer in Chicago, has a post today about John McCain, and yellow elephants, and human nature, and humanity, and decency, and The People of the Lie.

Excerpts:

Because McCain has no fixed ceiling on what he is willing to pay to be President…and, I would argue, on an almost metabolic level, on what he is willing to pay to stop the government from using torture as a tool of statecraft.

I don't pretend for a minute to understand what John McCain went through during his 5 ½ years in Hanoi but it’s safe to say it left the deepest possible mark on him that an experience can leave on a human. An episode that laid scar tissue down into the marrow. It....reformatted him into different kind of man.

However high the wall around this Administration may be, however tightly tuckpointed the stones, the groundwater in every direction now stinks of their deathcult lies and madness. However tightly they squeeze, they can't control it and it scares the shit out of them.

“You must decide in your own heart what you are truly willing to pay, and then truly be willing to turn your back and walk away from it without regret if the price is just high.”

Good stuff. Well worth reading.

Twice.