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Gawd, does that make me your Dittohead? 
I wasn't on DU, but locally, the PUMAs were out in force on that.
The limitations and his point to keep race out of it was well documented and McCain should be commended on it.
Also he probably lost the nomination to Rove and Bush in 2000 because they spread the rumor that he had an illegitimate n***** daughter. The truth is that the Cindy McCains saw a girl in a Bengladeshi orphanage whose life she thought was in danger and immediately added her to the family and probably saved her life. As a proud father of a beautiful loving adopted daughter of another race I have tremendous respect for what the McCains did. John McCain is a complicated person, as I suppose most of us are, but he could have done a lot of things during the campaign but he didn't. On inserting race into the campaign McCain took the high road and that is a clear fact.
That he was churlish after the campaign and bitter is well human and understandable, these guys get invested in it.
Here are the relevent facts about John McCain. He is the only candidate of a major party for President that adopted a child from another race. He is the only modern White candidate to have lost the nomination and possibly the White House by having rumors planted that he fathered a child with an African American.
And then there is this. He is probably the only nominee of a major party to lose and then have to fight for his life in a PRIMARY in his own state to keep his old job. I am guessing that if he had unleashed the Rev. Wright ads and taken the low ride he wouldn't have had to worry much about the primary, they would have loved him.
Its unfortunate that McCain didn't keep on the high road after the general election but I don't think that should be ascribed to the general election but rather the fact that he had to fight for his life in the primary two years later. And as the movie showed in his mind it is literally a fight for his life because when his father and grandfather stopped working their life ended (his grandfather died the day after the Japanese surrendered and his father slipped into a depressed melancholy after he retired).
Given that his fellow Republicans have treated him so disgracefully in part because of his generous act of adopting Bridget I suggest that we do the opposite, and give him the benefit of the doubt and agree with the movie's interpretation. I think its accurate. There are plenty of other points that we can disagree with the Senator on. And then there is this, the fact that McCain didn't use race as an issue really pisses of most of the Republican Party, that alone should give us more than enough reason to cut McCain a break.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2673964/John-McCains-adopted-daughter-from-Bangladesh-introduced.html
Bridget McCain, who was taken to America from a Bangladeshi orphanage by Mr McCain's wife Cindy in 1991, was introduced to delegates in Minneapolis in her first appearance of the presidential campaign.
Wes Gullett, a former aide to Mr McCain, told the audience that Mrs McCain had spotted Bridget and another child among 160 abandoned babies at a centre run by the late Mother Teresa in Dhaka.
Bridget had suffered a cleft palate so severe that she could not be fed, while the other had a serious heart condition.
Fearing both would die without medical attention, Mrs McCain demanded that she be allowed to take the children back to the US, and applied for visas. She argued furiously with Bangladeshi officials until they were signed. "I don't know where I got the nerve," Mrs McCain said later
The first Mr McCain knew of Bridget, Mr Gullett told the convention, was when he met his wife at the airport in Arizona. He asked: "Where is she going?" to which she replied: "To our house."
I may not care for their political views, but they both get a big 
from me for adopting Bridget.
