A Tale of Two Memoirs: McCain and Obama

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother scanning the headlines daily of the Noo Yawk Times and the Washington ComPost. Most days there's nothing there but the usual pro-Obama drumbeat and anti-McCain-Palin BS. Even though I'm reading them online, I invariably get a noseful of BS and have to fan the blow flies away as if I was flipping pages made of dead trees. Same ol', same ol' BS every single day.

But if nothing else, it's a daily reminder of how knee-jerk-left the so-called "mainstream" media is and how far in the tank for Obama they are, without any apology or even attempt at "fair and balanced" reporting of political news. Case in point, today's so-called review of John McCain's memoir of his five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, the best-selling "Faith of Our Fathers" which was made into a TV movie.

Obama's real-world experience spans his first gig as "community organizer" in Chicago, hand-picked by Bomb-Throwin' Bill Ayers to blow through $150 million in grant money with zip to show in results, a few years as a lawyer for ACORN among others and an almost invisible record as a state senator and first-term U.S. Senator. Never run nothin' but his mouth, yet he's allegedly written not just one, but two memoirs (one or both very likely ghost-written by Bill Ayers without credit) and Obama is acclaimed a literary star and prime Presidential timber.

John McCain's memoir openly credits his co-writer, campaign aide Mark Salter, which renders it all political puffery, so saith the NY Times.

But sometimes when you sort through a bucket of hogwash, you find a butterbean and such is the case with this NY Times McCain hitjob.

In the memoir, Mr. Salter helped sharpen that point into what became the new refrain of his boss’s political ascent. Mr. McCain had thought “all glory was self-glory,” but prison taught him “there are greater pursuits than self-seeking,” Mr. Salter wrote for the senator. “Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles.”

In the Navy archives, Mr. Salter found an oral history in which the senator’s father recounted his last meeting with his own father, on an American ship in Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.

“Son,” the first Admiral McCain had told the second, “there is no greater thing than to die for the principles — for the country and the principles that you believe in.”

After you sort through the NY-Times-title-speak hogwash of "Mr. Salter said Mr. McCain's grandfather said to Mr. McCain's father," the principles in "Faith of Our Fathers" still shine through: There is a glory greater than self-seeking in being ready to die for your country.

So let me ask in NY-Times-title-speak, just what principles does "Mr. Obama" believe in? Hope? Change? Hope in what? Change to what?