Dear Mr. President, stop railing against John McCain | By John Kirby for CNNOpinion
CNN national security analyst John Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the US Navy, was a spokesman for both the State and Defense departments in the Obama administration. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.With all due respect, sir, you need to stop railing against John McCain. It's beneath the office to which the American people elected you. And, quite frankly, it's beneath every measure of common decency.
I suppose there have always been people of low character in elected office -- charlatans who prey on our fears and feed on their own sense of personal grievance or glory -- but in that malevolent effort they cast aspersions on the vast majority of elected officials who truly just want to do right by their country. Let's be honest.
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