• Why I Will No Longer Support John McCain For President
• Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition
• McCain, who missed critical vote on GI bill that he and Bush oppose, attacked Obama, who supports the troops and did vote

Somebody just put their foot in it:

Today, John McCain was one of only three Senators who failed to show up for the debate and vote on Sen. Jim Webb’s improved GI Bill. (Ted Kennedy is in the hospital, and Tom Coburn was at a funeral. McCain was at a couple of big-ticket fundraising events.) But McCain had made it clear that he opposed the Webb proposal because he shares the concern of the top brass that improved GI Bill benefits would lead to an increased rate of exit from the enlisted ranks.

Barack Obama, after acknowledging McCain’s service, criticized him for opposing the bill. Obama was too polite, and too wise, to say what he could have said: that McCain, the son and grandson of Admirals and the husband of a multi-millionaire beer baron’s daughter, never had to rely on the GI Bill for an education or the VA hospital system for his health care, and that McCain’s opposition to the Webb bill reflected his constitutional incapacity for empathy with anyone less fortunate than he is.

-Thanks a whole lot, Johnny boy. True colors and all that…