Cohen: John McCain, honest, heroic, patriotic

WASHINGTON – John McCain is dying. He is slipping away, slowly, with clarity and courage. In his long, feverish life nothing has become him, as Shakespeare said, like the leaving it.
This is not yet a deathwatch. Those who have seen him recently at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona are measured in their words. In discussing his condition, they speak cheerfully. They treat his last passage with respect.
All we know is that he has stage-four brain cancer, he has had surgery and treatment, and he