I have no pity or sympathy for MaPain & have little respect for him too. I do respect have some respect for his military service but coming from a high ranking miliarty family it was more an expected career choice & move rather than a call to patriotic duty & I refuse to see his political career as "in service of his country". He is a politican & used his 5 MIA years to advance that. His policies & beliefs have caused grief & pain to untold Americans. His in-fighting about health care has helped to drag out the issue & prevent a good national health policty to become a reality, his stand on immigration & the fencing in of our borders is neither helpful nor addressing the real issues, his plea for "Victory at all costs" is no more than an attempt on his part to correct the mistakes of Viet Nam, his moves to turn the nation around will only make his wealth increase along with those that live his life style & hurts the pooer & middle classes & puts them more in debt to the likes of himself. He has backed & pushed bills as a Senator that follows the republican aggenda since the Reagan era, the republican party at all costs, the gathering of the powers that rule, the pushing of the Patriot Act 1 & 2 is exactly the policies that he prays for which is against the Constitution & agaist the freedoms that where a basis & foundation of this country. So, feel sorry for him? Just the opposite, I feel he needs to retire & do this country a favor.

Barry