later there s still this small monument here that s got his name on it because this was viewed as a north vietnamese military victory, shooting down mccain and other u.s. pilots who were bombing north vietnam. but look at this now. after the senator s passing, you ve got these shows of respect, flowers, incense, money, cigarettes. we ve got a bouquet here from the u.s. embassy here in hanoi. i just saw a south african couple who told me they were taking photos here. they said we re not americans, but we respect the man. the u.s. embassy here in hanoi has opened its annex to the public to let people sign a book of condolences. i met vietnamese there coming in to sign saying they thanked john mccain for helping establish friendly relations between vietnam and the u.s., two countries that fought this bitter, bitter war against each
wasn t going to be an easy thing. then as they put their plan together in many ways, obviously, the plan he ran on. at that point everybody had to have a plan, but the plan that they ran on is not the plan he tried to implement. there s no mandate. he took a piece of hillary clinton mandate and took a piece of john mccain, which they ran against and shoved down mccain s throat for being a plan to raise your taxes but took the plan they took pieces of everybody else s plan once they started making the policy. chuck schumer one of the top democrats in the senate made a lot of waves when he said health care was a noble thing to do and i believe it was the right thing to do but the timing was wrong because it sent the mesage to the american people at time of crisis. the politics of, you can look at it from the administration and say, they got it done. nobody could get it done and they got it done. do you think, though, that 2010 isn t nearly as bad if they don t do it then? i don t