Congrats, Sen. McCain

While we should all take great pride and hope in President-elect Obama, here's hoping that history is kind to John McCain, a true American hero who embodies honor and integrity. He campaigned as well as could be expected considering the circumstances and his own personal strengths (he outperformed the generic Republican by wide margins).

It will be interesting to see the details of the infighting in the McCain campaign as they'll surely come out. I'm not so interested in the back-biting--finger pointing at this point is so useless--but more about the strategy and focus on harnessing McCain's 'maverickness'.

As I've long maintained, when it came to choosing this year's candidates, we got it right. Either way, next January's inauguration was going to install a patriot and great American story as our chief executive.

That said, this Onion story was a little real...Happy Veterans Day, Capt. McCain.

McCain Gets Hammered At Local VFW
November 5, 2008 | Issue 44•45

PHOENIX—After conceding defeat in the 2008 presidential election, former Republican candidate John McCain reportedly got completely hammered Tuesday night at the Veterans of Foreign Wars bar in Phoenix. "I saw this old guy just kind of slumped over his drink for a couple hours before I realized who it was," bartender Rob Dubbin said of the former Navy officer, who sources confirmed arrived at the VFW community tavern around 9 p.m. wearing his lieutenant commander's jacket and cap. "He must have had about eight or nine boilermakers in all. I heard him muttering something about 'Pennsylvania,' I think, but other than that he was pretty quiet." Sources said McCain continued to drink alone until well after 3 a.m., at which point fellow patrons had to carry the sleeping senator to a couch in the back office. LINK