In 2000, I thought John McCain would make a good President. Among other things, I admired his apparent willingness to say what he thought regardless of whose feathers he might ruffle. His Straight Talk Express symbolized the idea.
Eight years later, the wheels on the Express seem to be loose and wobbly. Salon's Mark Benjamin writes here about how McCain has revised his own history on the Iraq war. But the biggest disappointment might be McCain's decision last week to vote against a ban on torture, thereby reversing a position he has forcefully argued for years.
Must be some of the wrong feathers were getting ruffled.