Reply #1: Sorry but yes he is

[dmallind]

I am no lionizer of military types. Nor am I anything approaching a McCain fan, but being a war hero and being a good, or even honroable, person or politician afterwards are two completely separate things. Hitler was a war hero after all - personal rescuing a wounded soldier under active fire. McCain refused to be freed when he had the chance because others were not going to be freed too. That's intentionally accepting risk to life and limb to beneift others during wartime - the definition of a war hero.

He shouldn't get a sniff at the WH as long as he lives, and I hope to hell he loses re-election (without much hope). But he still was a hero and nothing can take that away.