The lessons of McCain's captivity are these: if you are punished enough, you will submit; and that people don't like their homes bombed. Michael Moore takes that second point on in his new book in detail. Essentially, it boils down to: if you f** people's **** up, they'll want to ***k up yours. Or your children's.

McCain alluded to that first point when he said, "They broke me." Of all the vivid details he developed in his narrative at the convention, he left out what that meant, which was that he signed confessions and gave up information. It's easy to reduce this to "See? Don't torture." But if you expand that notion of submission enough, you take that into other realms: those with power want you to submit, whether through buying their ****, ignoring their crimes, or agreeing with their decisions as long as they leave you alone enough so you can get back to buying their ****.

John McCain didn't come back from Vietnam to change anything. In fact, he wanted to go back and kill more g**ks. He didn't get into office to end war. His career has been built on a vested interest in keeping war on people's minds because, without war always being in process or imminent, his story is diminished. John McCain simply has accomplished virtually nothing. He has allowed any cause he might have to be gutted and compromised to worthlessness because, in the end, on campaign finance reform, immigration, torture, everything, he has submitted to those who can break him again and again.

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Dude, back away from the ledge.

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Hunter S. Thompson

McCain used the word "fight" 25 times in his speech last night... That's a little troubling.