Here's the real question about McCain's phony POW story:

The focus has been on plagerism and the suggsetion that he picked up the story of the cross in the sand either from Ben-Hor or Solzhenitsyn.

Let's remind everyone of another elderly politician who couldn't tell reality from imagination:

In the 1987 book, Reagan's America: Innocents at Home, Gary Wills notes that on two occasions, Reagan told visitors to the White House that when he was in the military he had filmed the Nazi concentration camps. That was false. He had served in Los Angeles, where he had made training films.

Even Reagan's devotees could not avoid the obvious. In Triumph of Politics, David Stockman, Reagan's White House budget director, writes of one meeting with the boss: "What do you do when your president ignores all the palpable, relevant facts and wanders in circles? I could not bear to watch this good and decent man go on in this embarrassing way. I buried my head in my plate."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=1487


Nearly 70 when he took office in January 1981, Reagan became the oldest president, and throughout his two terms, a series of well- publicized memory lapses and a casual executive style had provoked uncertainty -- even ridicule -- about his mental competence. Just when the Alzheimer's began can never be known.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19971022/ai_n10114747/pg_2

In hindsight we can see where her dementia started in the years before she had to go to a nursing home. I don't believe that is unusual at all. I am sure that Reagan probably had it while in office and it is possible that McCain has the beginnings of it now. I don't see how anybody who spent that many years as a POW can come out of it mentally unscathed.

It is readily apparent that he can't tell reality from fantasy. The story of the evil terrrorists using metally disabled women as suicide bombers has been debunked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/opinion/02orourke.html

but early on we had no reason to believe she was not telling the truth when she said the neighbors were banging on her door and yelling at her or that odd things were happening at her work. They were all in her mind, but we didn't really see or understand it until years later.

if I was one of those people that popped champagne corks when Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

I quickly responded, "No, I was way too young to drink in 1983."

Series.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:veXwu4FWZPcJ:www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/legacy/110594-speech-by-president-at-oakland-rally.htm+clinton+oakland+reagan+%22kathleen+brown%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Anyone think he had a memory problem last night?

Sound familiar? McBomb took a page out of his playbook.