Hold the freakin’ presses! John McCain takes offense to the truth? The latest hubbub is that Senator McCain was offended by remarks from another Senator simply because he spoke the truth. If that isn’t a Bushism then I do not know what is. McCain demanded an apology from the Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama simply because the Senator in question endorsed him?
How dare his fellow politicians say that McCain couldn’t spot a regular guy if they were cleaning the windshield of his car in DC. That would probably be a homeless PTSD Veteran but that is another topic for another day. Over at the New York Times they have this latest political blow out on McCain…
Why don’t we all apologize for the plague in the fifteenth century and of course for that dreaded Cain and Able incident. Better yet lets be mega politically correct and apologize for the inquisition, Attilla the Hun, Alexander the Great, and just to be on the safe side, that dreaded New Coke mistake a few years back.
Senator Rockefeller and presidential candidate Obama should not be apologizing for the truth. Was John McCain not a pilot that dropped bombs from thousands of feet up? Did John McCain ever see the effects on a personal level when those bombs dropped? Is it not a fact that John McCain wants the markets to find the “Floor” on the housing crisis thus proving he does not understand the middle and lower classes? Is it a fact that he has said himself that he is not well learned on the economy? Something that effects the common man every single day. It’s all true so why are they apologizing?
I’ll give McCain credit for his service to our nation in our armed services but that does not give him a free pass on the truth. While many of our citizens have served, just as many have not. Does military service make him immune from political questions? It’s freakin’ politics! Rockefeller and Obama blinked and it was an idiotic blink. It showed a wimp mentality in each of them simply because McCain played his military history card.
Where the hell was McCain when all the mistreatment of our military troops was going on at Walter Reed? I’ll tell you where he was, he was at Walter Reed again and again and again. He did nothing till the whistle blowers screamed loud and clear in the press. John McCain did nothing because it didn’t serve his cause till he needed to play it. Those troops in squalor didn’t matter till it was advantageous to McCain and then he spoke loud and clear on the air with Imus in the Morning.
It’s ironic that McCain is playing his military service card and demanding apologies. What about an apology from McCain for our troops still fighting to survive in our own nation's military hospitals. What about an apology from McCain as a U.S. Senator that allowed Veterans Administration funding be cut on his watch for all our aging veterans? What about an apology for WWII veterans as they are told there is no place in the hospital for them? What about an apology from McCain for the current status of care for wounded veterans that only lasts for a few years and then they are screwed? Wasn’t he in the Senate when all of this bashing veterans benefits legislation was passed?
John McCain is a hypocrite hiding behind his military record. Being a soldier does not make you a God! Forgetting those that served and ignoring their needs while caving into the Bush administration makes McCain just as bad as the Concierge of the Hanoi Hilton.
My humble apologies to all Veterans but the truth is what it is.
Absolutely agree. McCain keeps playing the military service card as though that's reason enough to vote for him. Sure I respect his service and ordeal. But, heck, I served too. I got paid to do my job. What else do I need?
Rockefeller apologized because he was wrong. Just because McCain was Navy pilot does not mean he doesn’t care about people.
As for VA funding, we have never treated the troops as well. Ask Ron Kovic, whose life story was the basis of “Born on the Fourth of July.” VA hospitals were a horror in the Vietnam era and John McCain wasn’t responsible for that.
Likening an American hero like John McCain to the brutal North Vietnamese regime is just malicious with no basis in fact.
Rockefeller apologized for McCain because he realized that his comments were wrong. McCain didn’t have to cry. Rockefeller is a decent enough man to admit he was wrong on his own.
When I talked about the lack of civility of politics, this is what I’m talking about. John McCain doesn’t think he’s G-d, he doesn’t cave into the Bush administration.
John McCain is a decent man and so is Barrack Obama and Jay Rockefeller. There is a better way to explain your points that by using buzzwords with no back-up.
Navy pilots have a job, like it or not. How would you like it if someone came to your job and bashed you for doing what you're paid to do.
And I think it's convenient that you bash McCain for demanding an apology in the light of "it's freakin' politics" but then rip him for playing politics - "didn’t serve his cause till he needed to play it" = freakin' politics too.
ok Rockefeller [i][He's a fighter pilot. He flies at 35,000 feet and drops laser-guided bombs, missiles. He was long gone when they hit. What happened down there, he doesn't know."/i]
A senator should at least know that bombs were not laser guided from 35,000 feet during the Vietnam war. they were generally dropped from a couple of hundred feet and guided in by the guys being shot up who called for the air strike. This was done while the target shot back at the approaching aircraft. This McCain knows only too well because he was shot down during one of these missions and was so low that his parachute opened seconds before he hit the ground.
As for Jay Rockefeller being able to recognize a normal guy, I am sure he has seen quite a few through his limousine's darkened window.
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