the makeout hobo

John McCain has reached Guiliani territory, where he or his campaign makes a reference to his POW experience as an excuse for every issue that comes up. I don't know if there's a single issue, no matter how far removed from Viet Nam, that McCain hasn't played the POW card. It's getting old now, and it'll get a lot older towards November. (Also, for the record, this thread is not about Obama, or Kerry, or Clinton, or Romney, or anyone except John McCain.)



Concerning the S&L scandal:

When he was accused to being a carpetbagger during his first race:


From his campaign concerning the the recent charge that he might have cheated at Saddleback:

From his campaign concerning the recent housing flap:

Concerning Elizabeth Edwards' call for Universal Healthcare


Concerning his love of ABBA:

Concerning Clinton's Woodstock Bill

Concerning Patriotism


As an aside, here's two of my other favorite McCain quotes:


McCain Reflects on His POW Experience | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - McCain rises to ABBA’s defense « - Blogs from CNN.com
The POW Dodge | The American Prospect
Bloomberg.com: Politics
POW status was key factor in McCain's first race - Boston.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/us/politics/18mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Navy Pride

At least he does not step up and say "Reporting for Duty" like the traitor "Lurch" Kerry did.........

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the makeout hobo

How does what McCain does any different? They're both pimping out their war records.

Navy Pride

Nope, McCain does not have to do that because Obama has no war record or any record for that matter.........

the makeout hobo

Just in case you didn't read the OP closely enough. Please stay on topic.

also, how is this not McCain pimping out his war record? He mentions it every chance he gets.

Middleground

I'm constantly amazed that you, Navy, show no bones about direspecting the service of someone who's served your country. You should be ashamed.

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Lerxst

This is just an incredibly moronic statement. Kerry served in combat, Kerry rescued his own wounded, Kerry got up close and personal with enemy combatants.

And Kerry protested the very reason he was there, he spoke up about things he saw that made him sick, and pronounced his dissatisfaction by throwing his medals away. Good for him! Why be proud of your participation in an endeavor you absolutely did not believe in? Kerry went to Vietnam, fought, and got wounded. He earned his right to protest.

And you call him a traitor? I challenge you, like I have so many others, to jump off the Swiftboat Veterans for Bull**** Lies and Innuendo and step up to the plate. Substantiate that Kerry is a traitor.

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Navy Pride

The problem is MG you know nothing about it......You don't know how this scumbag trashed his fellow Viet Nam Vets........You don't know how he is held in high esteem by the NVN.........You don't know what a liar he is when it comes to his time in the Navy and the awards he received that are questionable to this day.............

I could go on and on...

Navy Pride

When you trash true Medal of Honor winners and Prisoners of War I really question the fact that you were ever in the military........."Lurch" Kerry is a scumbag loser.....He is a and elistist snob and always will be.............God bless the Swiftboat Vets, Medal of Honor winners, and POWs who made sure this scumbag never got elected president.........

GottaHurt

That's a flat out lie. John Kerry has stated those weren't his medals, but someone elses medals.

The 1988 issue of Current Biography Yearbook says that Kerry explained that the medals were not his but those of another veteran who asked him to throw them on his behalf.
Critics of John Kerry say he either created a false impression by throwing the borrowed medals or spent a long time letting a false impression remain before he admitted that he still had his medals.
Defenders say Kerry never misrepresented the medals because he did not claim that they were his and openly displays them in his office.

John Kerry's anti-war past-Truth! and "Unproven!

Yes, Kerry is so dissatisfied, that they hang on the wall in his office.

Obviously you're not talking about the Vietnam War, it can hardly be described as an "endeavour".

So you must be talking about these "endeavours" he participated in:



And the lovely Jane trying out the latest NVA head apparel and AA hardware.



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No need for any Swiftboating here. Just easily refuting more liberal lies.

Yes, he was so dissatisfied that he went on to proclaim at the '04 DNC, "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty".

American Rhetoric: John Kerry -- Acceptance Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention Address

Then he goes on to totally disrespect our troops when he blurted out this:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

This pic accurately sums up John Kerry and his buddy John Edwards.

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