Letter: McCain showed integrity in defending Obama

With the passing of Sen. John McCain, our nation has lost one of its rarest elected leaders, a person whose integrity motivated him to place country, his fellow citizens and the truth first, not just when it is advantageous or convenient. A classic McCain example came when he was running for president in 2008. At one of his campaign rallies he stopped a woman midstatement from publicly spreading a popular falsehood degrading his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. After he reclaimed the microphone from