McCain was a POW. OK. Fine.
But what the hell does that have to do with being President. I’m proud of his service. I’m sure he went through hell. But his time as a POW means that he served his country and remained faithful. Great. This is something to which he and his family can look back with pride.
Great.
No one was there who can look back and say that he did or did not do any of these things while in the Hanoi Hilton. I don’t see how anyone can blame him if, on occasion, he accepted a favor. You know something that might have kept him from being tortured for a day or two.
Anyone who impugns McCain or his time in the Hanoi Hilton prison is an ass. If you weren’t there, going through it with him. You have no reason to even speak about it. Shut the hell up. You aren’t worthy. Period.
I don’t see how it even comes up. People have nerve.
But as long as McCain is trading on that experience for political gain, there will be folks who will attempt to smear him and his experiences. It’s just gonna happen. I think McCain knows this and accepts this. Or…he wouldn’t be in politics.
McCain has several debilitations that are directly related to his time in the HH. These idiots who are denigrating McCain based on his Vietnam experience should be placed through those torture methods and see if they can withstand it. IF they can, then they have the right to speak to those experiences. Otherwise, shut up.
Kerry and Gore and their little adventures were a joke. Their claim to heroism is about the same as mine. Laughable. Sure they’re Vets. Sure they served. But they didn’t do anything special while there. I don’t expect to be handed a lifetime pass to the Senate because I served in the Military.
I don’t know. I don’t get it. People are idiots. This idiocy is why these smear tactics are used and why they work. Government of, by and for the Sheeple. That is the State of the Union as I type. It’s a National Election as run by the National Enquirer. Ya gotta love that.
I don’t care what McCain’s perceived sins may or may not be in the eyes of the radical religious right or in the eyes of the ultra-conservatives. Coulter is rabid and angry about anything and anyone who doesn’t follow her exact mantra. Rush Limbaugh is a fatheaded, drug addicted idiot. I’m not voting for Hillary Clinton. She is one of the most fake human being to ever lie her way across the political scene. Only in New York could she be elected to the Senate. I’m not voting for Obama either. You may as well vote Ayatollah Khamenei or Hezbollah’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah into the White House.
Romney may have made me stay home. He’s too conservative for me. I can’t vote for another overly religious nut. I’m tired of all of the God talk and I don’t really give a damn what Jesus would do. I don’t care if gay people get married. I don’t care how many black or gay or hispanic TV shows are on the air. I don’t mind bi-lingual signs or ATMs or tele-comm answering systems. Kick all of the Mexicans out of the US and watch prices rise like a tidal wave.
I’d have voted for Giuliani had he won the nomination. McCain will get my vote.
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Kerry served when he didnt have to, durring wartime and risked his life. Gore also. Bush did not. Cheney did not. Romney did not. Most of the neocons did not. Most of the democrats did, hmmmm. Kerry protested when he got back. Protesting that war was brave. Kerrys senate speach was impressive if a bit exagerated. It was more accurate then not, however. Mccain seems an honorable man who I can respect. A strong leader and mostly honest. He also dropped fire bombs on crowded targets throughout Vietnam before being shotdown. The horror of that is unimaginable. Burning people alive with chemicals so hot they burn underwater and cause 4 and 5th degree burns. Whole villages, hospitals, temples, etc… If your community was being burned alive, a literal hell on earth day and night, kids, the elderly, men and women, and one of the pilots ejects into a lake near your home, what would you do after you dragged him out of the water. The Vietnamese carried him to safety and gave him tea to survive until he was taken away by authorities and imprisoned.
Bush’s time is past. Nearly so, at any rate.
McCain was following orders. The orders of LBJ. The Texan Democrat.
I’ve been to Vietnam. The Vietnamese have moved on. The war is past for them. More so than even in America. Why America can’t move past it is beyond me. The Vietnamese are a beautiful and peaceful people.
Our war was unjust. We fought against both Communism and Democracy. We strayed mightily from our path in entering the Vietnam war. This error is more a Truman legacy than anything. We, the US, should have been on the side of Ho Chi Minh against French Colonialism. Period.
Kerry protesting the war is ok by me. His treating with the Vietnamese as an independent party was traitorous. Kerry is nothing to me. He’s a fool. On par with Carter and Obama. All fools.