McCain on Ifshin: "His speech was broadcast into our cells."

[Omerrrta]

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/mccain-and-ifshin/32880/

McCain and Ifshin
Editorial of The New York Sun | May 17, 2006

"It's hard to remember a more moving moment in college oratory than the one that came yesterday when Senator McCain, speaking at Columbia College on the subject of division and unity in American politics and war, suddenly started telling a personal story. "I had a friend once, who, a long time ago, in the passions and resentments of a tumultuous era in our history, I might have considered my enemy," Mr. McCain said. "He had come once to the capitol of the country that held me prisoner, that deprived me and my dearest friends of our most basic rights, and that murdered some of us. He came to that place to denounce our country's involvement in the war that had led us there. His speech was broadcast into our cells. I thought it a grievous wrong and I still do."
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The man of whom the senator was speaking was an American idealist named David Ifshin, whose life has much to teach us all. "When he returned to his country he became prominent in Democratic Party politics," the senator said. "He still criticized his government when he thought it wrong, but he never again lost sight of all that unites us. We met some years later. He approached me and asked to apologize for the mistake he believed he had made as a young man. Many years had passed since then, and I bore little animosity for anyone because of what they had done or not done during the Vietnam War. It was an easy thing to accept such a generous act, and we moved beyond our old grievance," Mr. McCain said.
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Mrs. Clinton did not attend Ifshin's funeral and, according to an article by Morton Kondracke in the Weekly Standard, had "hatred" for Ifshin.
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more on the link, whats hillary mad about?

[Richard Steele]

1. Well, as long as I have no idea what you're talking about...

[Boz]

2. Am I the only person that has NO CONTEXT here?

[Viking12]

5. Post appears to be a troll. A 2 year-old article praising McLame's "forgiving nature"

..and taking a potshot at Hillary at the same time.

[Viking12]

3. Enjoy your brief visit here at DU

[IndianaJones]

4. Joe Momma. nt.

[blogslut]

6. bunny

pancake

[11 Bravo]

7. Subtlety, thy name is troll.

Or not.

[Avalux]

8. Oh noes!! A POW Moment!

Is this kinda like the cross in the dirt/sand story? :yoiks:

[Omerrrta]

9. wow at the replys

wtf is wrong with some of you? I posted this because it links mccain to a 60's radical who reformed himself, like ayers.

its also mentioned in a different story in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7337386

[Richard Steele]

10. If that was your intent, you probably should have said so in your OP.

CONTEXT is key, my friend.

[blogslut]

11. Probably because of the last bit you put in the OP

Why was including that necessary to your intent?