Not once does he mention Obama's name, but it's so clear. He reams McCain and the Republicans for what they are. He shows such passion and such determination to remind us of our values - American values - that these phony liars and cheats have disgraced.

Definitely Rec'd.

I've been saying since DURING US involvement in Vietnam -- which was ILLEGAL -- that there is no honor in advancing an illegality. Heroism does not come out of a lie.

There were no heroes in the sense McShame has been represented. None. He bombed civilian infrastructure -- a war crime -- in N. Vietnam.

Then he got shot down, failing his mission, and captured by the enemy. What's heroic about that?

Where has been the courage to challenge all these nonsensical lies about "honor" and "heroism" arising out of that illegality? To challenge the denial of reality, the perversion of the country's wrongs into a lording it over those who didn't buy into it and still don't?

How many "heroes" of the Vietnam era have endeavored to intimidate the critics -- the truth-tellers -- into silence based upon their sacrosanct piety: that they "fought for and defended" my rights, including that of free speech -- but also earned the extra "right" to dictate when and how I can exercise those rights.

They are to reamain writings on a piece of paper on the wall.

Penn is far from the first to question McShame's service -- how did advancing that illegality "serve" the good and the true? How did it serve the country? If the truth shall set us free, and the US is about freedom, then the US is about truth. So why are we lying to ourselves about being for freedom and truth? Shame.