WVEC TV's Joel Rubin on John McShame's "Character"

Joel Rubin delivered an absolutely searing assessment of John McSame's "character" at the end of his TV program yesterday.  It's must read!

Commentary by Joel Rubin

If the ability to turn the other cheek is a virtue, Barack Obama is a saint.

While John McCain prattled on about Obama's tenuous linkage to erstwhile Weatherman William Ayers the other night, Obama did not take the bait.

You can criticize Obama's performance in Congress or position on issues, but when it comes to succeeding in America, Senator McCain's story is hardly one to admire.

If Barack Obama crossed paths briefly with Ayers and longer with Reverend Wright, it's because that's what happens when you are making your way in the political and business worlds with no enabler.

John McCain had one, his father, a powerful admiral, who got his son into a pricey private high school and then the Naval Academy, where in both cases, young John did all he could to embarrass him by loutish, drunken behavior and poor academic performance. He wrote about it in his book.

Only Dad's urging kept John III from being busted out of pilot training after he crashed a jet in Texas and sliced through low hanging power lines in Spain.

Heck, he stalled once over Norfolk and had to parachute to safety. (more on the flip)

McCain admits he could have eluded enemy fire over Hanoi but chose not to, his five years of captivity the result.

McCain acknowledges. too, that he cheated on his first wife during her nine months of recuperation from an auto accident, then used his second wife's beer fortune to run for Congress in Arizona.

In the Senate, he helped Charles Keating make a mint in the savings and loan industry, which eventually collapsed thanks to the lack of regulation Keating and McCain favored.

Barack Obama knows all this, but kept quiet Wednesday when McCain brought up William Ayers, and earlier, when Sarah Palin, who canned the state police chief for not firing her brother in law, did the same.

Why?  Maybe it's because Obama is so confident of victory or so much of a gentleman that he hasn't joined his foes in the gutter.  Perhaps that's why he's winning.

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