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Mac’s speech

It wasn’t as good as Palin’s, alas. Thank goodness she’s on the same ticket, which is more than enough for some previous Mac doubters. Because, after all, she wouldn’t be there without Mac’s vision and wisdom.

But I enjoyed watching and hearing him. The establishment media covers him so rarely–and never his wealthy wife, a genuinely interesting and admirable person. The POW stuff, which the big-whoop media meisters are bound to complain about, as they always do (it must make them nervous since few of them have served) was powerful and he has the right to use it. It was a good exemplar of the fundamental difference between him and his opponent, and of his brand of patriotism. It also demonstrates, as he suggested, why he is not at all the war-monger the Dems like to paint him. At the same time it shows why our enemies will have to be wary of his resolve, making him much less likely to have to widen the war we’re already in.

UPDATE:  It seems that Mac’s speech outdrew Baby Barry’s on teevee viewers. Good for him. And reading the speech, at the link above, I’ve changed my mind. It was better than Palin’s. He knows more. How could it not have been? A young independent more or less agrees.

John Arthur Deering, R.I.P.

Chuck Adams, an OC-504 buddy of mine who served as an AFVN station manager on Monkey Mountain near Da Nang, tells me Deering died unexpectedly Monday at his home in Millersville, TN. He was 64. A retired  Marine NCO, Deering was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart for service with AFVN. He spent five years as a POW after capture during the TET Offensive of 1968 while running an AFVN radio and television station in Hue. He was tortured and held in solitary for two of those years. Rest in peace, John.

MORE: The rest of the story, about AFVN’s POWs.