Straight Talk About the Straight-Talker: John McCain Lacks Integrity By Henry Mark Holzer

While McCain's lack of integrity in the MIA investigation is so dramatic because of his own military and POW background, there are other examples which are equally important and disturbing.

There is a scene in the classic Elia Kazan film "Viva Zapata" when a young Emiliano Zapata for the first time meets his bride-to-be's father, a shopkeeper manifestly unimpressed with his daughter's suitor. The father calls Zapata "a man of substance, without substance."

So, too, it is with John McCain. He is "a man of integrity without integrity"-meaning that the senator is reputed to have great integrity, but in fact has little, given the definition of that word: "the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards" (Encarta Dictionary).

Two different, but related, events that coalesced today are what have caused me to write on this subject.

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