Just when you thought there wasn’t a cool head in Washington, along comes
a pleasant surprise.
From former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, no less.
Oh, yes, thankfully, McCain is still with us. (And, if there is a higher power let her bestow real power on the likes of Republicans like John McCain in these next several months before the general election.)
No, this If the Greats Were With Us Thursday, is about The Good Soldier.
McCain speaks for him in the person of one Delmer Berg. McCain wrote about
Delmer Berg in a New York Times opinion essay, the best I’ve read in the Gray
Lady in many a moon.
Here it is: Let the spirit of what moved McCain to write this piece lift
prejudice and hate wherever it is found.
The Good
Soldier by John McCain (NYT, March 25)
An interesting obituary appeared in The New York Times recently,
though the death of its subject last month was largely unnoticed beyond his
family and friends.
