Later, when describing how he regretted the fact that poor Americans were frequently forced to serve during the Vietnam War while their wealthier counterparts found ways to duck service, McCain pointedly referenced Trump's own ability to get five deferments, including one for an alleged bone spur in his heel.
"One aspect of the [Vietnam] conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve," McCain said.
None of this is being recorded in order to hail McCain as a saint. When it comes to Trump's economic policies that run up trillions of dollars in our budget deficit to help the wealthy and deregulate big business, McCain has been right there supporting Trump. He even contradicted his initial claim of having voted against Trump's Obamacare repeal on the grounds that the bill wasn't developed in a bipartisan way by supporting subsequent legislation that was also rammed through by Republicans without Democratic support. Yet for all of his faults, McCain is without question an American war hero.
From Matthew Roza in Salon.com
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