Tim Dickenson penned a scathing article about the real John McCain in Rolling Stone this week.  Not the fictionalized, media created “maverick” John McCain, but the real John McCain and the rise to below mediocrity that he actually represents.   The article is long but it is COMPELLING and well worth the read.  It gives you all the details about John McCain’s real life and not the fairytale that he and his handlers have been spinning for years now.  Further, it gives FULL details of McCain’s ACTUAL war record as well as real insight into McCain’s true character.  A MUST READ!!  Some of the highlights are below.

The real John McCain as a member of the KEATING FIVE:

“McCain saw the political pressure on the regulators,” recalls Black. “He could have saved these widows from losing their life savings. But he did absolutely nothing.”….

McCain was ultimately given a slap on the wrist by the Senate Ethics Committee, which concluded only that he had exercised “poor judgment.” The committee never investigated Cindy’s investment with Keating.

The real John McCain, husband and father:

Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam……

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

“I’m going to the Middle East,” Dramesi says. “Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.”

“Why are you going to the Middle East?” McCain asks, dismissively.

“It’s a place we’re probably going to have some problems,” Dramesi says.

“Why? Where are you going to, John?”

“Oh, I’m going to Rio.”

“What the hell are you going to Rio for?”

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

“I got a better chance of getting laid.”

The real John McCain. Both George W. Bush and John Sydney McCain III had an eerily similar life path:

At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.

The real John McCain only puts ”country first” according to Lincoln Chafee, a former GOP senator, when it doesn’t interfere with his own personal ambitions.  Chafee is said to be appalled by McCain’s readiness to “sacrifice principle for power.”

And forget all the “Country First” sloganeering, he adds. “McCain is putting himself first. He’s putting himself first in blinking neon lights.”

The real John McCain’s temperament:

McCain didn’t play well with others. Indeed, he concedes, his runty physique inspired a Napoleon complex: “My small stature motivated me to . . . fight the first kid who provoked me.”