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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (49283)	9/28/2008 11:47:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224738

Moe is respected among Ohio veterans and was given a raucous ovation at the Republican National Convention when Palin highlighted him in her speech. As he boarded the bus, en route to a memorial park in Canton, a police officer and Army veteran pulled him aside for an autograph. "We've got to win," the officer told Moe, who had lived within a few feet of McCain for a time in Hanoi. At each stop, Moe told of watching McCain through a pinhole drilled through his cell door after he returned from brutal torture sessions. "Even today he cannot lift his arm to salute the flag he serves," Moe said. "Sometimes I would see him coming back from a particularly bad torture session walking with his arms on his knees to hold himself up. John, in all the pain he was in, would stand up and give me a big smile and thumbs-up. . . . John McCain has got the grit to see us to victory, and he's never going to run up that white flag, because that's death." The crowd in Canton stood and applauded, just as they did in Sandusky, a town of about 25,000 near Lake Erie. "How a person deals with challenges is important. If you're on the fence, listening to these veterans might help you make a decision," said Karen McTague, 54, treasurer of the Ottawa County Republicans. It is what she doesn't know about Obama that worries her. The Democratic nominee has spoken frequently about his Christian faith, his commitment to national security and his love of country, but McTague said she still harbors fears about his background because Obama's father, whom the candidate hardly knew, was raised as a Muslim. "If it looks like he appeals to Muslims, those countries may think they have opportunity," she said. One of the last stops on the bus tour was Strongsville, a 45,000-people town outside Cleveland where U.S. flags lined the main street and were draped over a white gazebo that stood in the center of town. Mayor Thomas Perciak had "God Bless America" piped in over the sound system to greet Moe, Smith and Mechenbier and rounded up as many people as he could to hear their speeches. "I've walked around from group to group, and I've said, 'We have an American hero who wants to be president, let's support him,' " Perciak said, before posing for a picture with the other veterans who had come to campaign for their brother. Polling director Jon Cohen contributed to this report.