Do you know John McCain, Presidential Candidate for America...USA?

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Do you know John McCain, Presidential Candidate for America...USA?

It's amazing when you think about it. War hero John McCain has been in
the public eye almost his entire adult life. He's run numerous
campaigns, served in Congress for 25 years, and is in his second run
for the presidency. Yet, there is so much of his life that reveals a
sterling character, but remains largely unknown to the public.
Moreover, in spite of the tremendous political advantages that
publicity could confer, McCain instinctively keeps that information
private. Although as a presidential candidate he may be forced to
overcome this reticence, he honorably shies away from using his
personal heroics for political gain.

How aware is the public that McCain has raised seven children? Or,
that he adopted his two oldest sons as small boys (children from his
wife's prior marriage)? Or, that he has raised a Bangladeshi girl with
severe health problems adopted from Mother Theresa's orphanage? Or,
that his own sons have served in the military, including in Iraq?

It's widely known that McCain, a Navy pilot, was shot down, captured
and tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 and a half years - an
episode worth a forthcoming column all its own. But few are aware that
he refused early release until all the POWs captured before him were
freed, and that he refused special treatment offered once it was
discovered that he was the "crown prince" (the son of the admiral in
charge of the Pacific Fleet) because he wouldn't provide the enemy
with any propaganda victories. Even fewer seem to know that those
years were a fraction of a 22-year Navy career. Although broken and
battered, after his release from Vietnamese captivity he went right
back to the Navy, where he continued to serve for an additional eight
years.

Both Israel and America honor military service, knowing all too well
the sacrifice of those who step up, stand guard, and put their lives
on the line to protect their fellow citizens from the ever-present
threat of harm. Readers in Israel, where military and national service
is intertwined with society perhaps more than in any other free
country, especially appreciate the McCain family's tradition of
military service and the intergenerational transmission of values that
comes with it.

Anyone can talk about "supporting our troops" - The McCains serve.
McCain's father and grandfather were respected American admirals. Of
McCain's four sons, three have gone the military route. One was a Navy
pilot like his father, one enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and
recently completed a tour in Iraq and one is completing his education
at the Naval Academy (raising the strong possibility that, for the
first time in half a century, the United States will have a president
with a son at war).

Yet, likely because of those same values, McCain maintains a strict
code of silence about his sons' military service, no matter how
legitimate his pride or politically useful their military status.
Through 2007, McCain was the strongest Senate advocate of vastly
increasing troop levels in Iraq, strongly influencing the
administration's wildly successful "surge" strategy. Yet, McCain never
brought up his own son's service in some of the roughest areas of
Iraq. His principled refusal of political advantage from his son's
Iraq service extends to refusal even to be interviewed on the subject,
or to introduce his son to campaign audiences.

Also little-known is the story of McCain's youngest child. As a
result, of a 1991 Cindy McCain visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage in
Bangladesh, the McCains adopted an infant daughter dying from a host
of health issues. The orphanage could not provide the medical care
needed to save the little girl's life, so the McCains, already the
parents of six children, brought the child home to America, and paid
for desperately needed surgeries and years of rehabilitation. That
child is their teenage daughter Bridget.

In fact, there was a second infant girl brought back from the
orphanage that the McCains saved. She ended up being adopted by one of
McCain's aides, Wes Gullett, and his wife. "We were called at midnight
by Cindy," Gullett has stated, and "five days later we met our new
daughter Nicki at the LA airport." This fall, Nicki will be a high
school junior. Even after years of expensive medical treatment for the
child, Gullett says, "I never saw a hospital bill" for her care. It is
an extraordinary man who commits himself to such generous and heroic
acts; it is an extraordinary politician who won't utter a word about
such acts for political aggrandizement.

Thus, it turns out that McCain, standard-bearer of the party
constantly slandered as racist, has, without fanfare, raised as his
own a Bengali daughter of color. But the character demonstrations
regarding his daughter are even more impressive: during his 2000
presidential run, as he was on the verge of becoming the front-runner,
rogue staffers of other candidates reportedly conducted a whisper
campaign in South Carolina disparaging the McCains for having a "black
baby."

Yet, with every justification to unload with both barrels for such
nasty politicking, and with as great an opportunity to set the record
straight and tell the world about the heroics of being an adoptive
father, McCain chose to shield his child by ignoring the smear. Some
analysts believe that move may have ultimately cost him the
nomination. Nevertheless, McCain has never questioned his choice. It
says a lot about the man that he would readily sacrifice the pinnacle
of personal political achievement to protect his family's feelings and
privacy.

The contrast with other politicians couldn't be more stark. How many
candidates have we heard try to score political points as they crow in
the public limelight about their own brief military stints, or their
wife's cancer, son's car accident, or sister's death from smoking? The
contrast is consistent with McCain's internalizing the codes of honor
and military conduct since his youth: the veneration of courage and
resilience; the expectation of fidelity to principles of honor; the
homage paid to Americans who sacrificed for their country; the
nobility of service and sacrifice; the expectation that one would
prove worthy of the country's trust; and the humility that comes from
recognizing that there are causes and people greater than oneself. It
is, in short, a contrast in character.

Character matters. In a president-and particularly in a
commander-in-chief, that kind of character arguably counts more than
any particular political orientation or policy. From character flows
leadership, as it is character which dictates morally grounded
direction and engenders public trust. Character is critical to
determining how a leader will respond to crisis. Will he reach deep
within himself and in the traditions that shaped him and find the
courage and grace to inspire strength and greatness? Will soldiers
trust the wisdom and integrity of his decision when he orders them to
war? Will he truly understand the terrible toll of war, as well as the
price of appeasement? Will he make decisions based on considerations
greater than cheap political expediency?

Now, ask yourself: which candidate has repeatedly demonstrated that
kind of character?

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