McCain's Hypocricy or A Pound of Flesh, A Pound of Rice

John McCain. The straight talk express. Remember when McCain was every Democrat's favorite Republican. McCain the maverick.

McCain has been in the U S Senate now for onto thirty years. Usually a Senator of his experience, of his age, would be one who was respected for his clarity. A pet position, a source of expertise, perhaps a chairmanship.

What is not expected is a Senator chasing headlines and modifying positions for the headlines. Unfortunately since losing the election for the Presidency in 2008 McCain has been on a downward slide. First he had to move himself to the right to get by a primary challenge in 2010. That, forgiven by most as something he had to do, was understandable to most. However he has not really come back to the center in his now comfortable Senate seat.

Yesterday Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for Secretary of State. Widely known to be the President's first choice to replace the retiring Hillary Clinton Rice has fallen victim to the Benghazi attacks and Republicans subsequent protestations of a cover up. Rice was the State Department official who first advised the press of hte attack and the origination of it as a result of the controversial Mohammed video that had gone viral.

I do not know if Rice was lying in her statement, my guess is that in a time of confusion the wrong information was assumed to be true. Of course it was all complicated by the pending election. The Republicans, looking for anything to politicize to hurt the President's reelection chances latched onto the issue.

Leading the pack was Senator McCain. McCain wanted investigations, independent counsels, hearings, when truthfully McCain being a member of the Armed Services Committee certainly was and is privy to what the CIA's real mission in Libya. He knows the story and he has just become nothing more than a mercenary to try to expose or weaken the administration.

It at one point has become so ridiculous that at one point John McCain missed a breifing for Congressional leaders on the Benghazi attack, and who knew what when and other issues. Why did he miss the meeting? He was holding a press conference stating his anger at not being able to find out more information about Benghazi.

I think John Kerry would be a better Secretary of State so this is not skin off my nose. The right has its scalp and perhaps now they will move on. Certainly one would think that Kerry would not be a controversial choice. Perhaps McCain should mirror his pal John Kerry on how ex Presidential candidates should act with decorum and gravitas after returning to the Senate.