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McCain's "Cross In The Dirt" Story

Balloon Juice found this 8/17/2008 on andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

I've now heard it countless times. McCain has used what appears to be an intensely personal moment in a prison camp as a reason to vote for him in a campaign ad. As he tells it today, it was the pivotal moment in his struggle to survive in the Hanoi Hilton. And yet, in his first thorough account of his time in captivity, in 1973, the story is absent . The story is also hauntingly like ...