He can't help himself:

"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life," McCain said. "I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation."

Jeez. This is clinical. He's responding to middle class economic anxiety by referring to the Hanoi Hilton?

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