McCain's Get-Out-Of-Trouble-Free POW Card
McCain's Get-Out-Of-Trouble-Free POW Card
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1McCain's Get-Out-Of-Trouble-Free POW Card
Posted: 8/19/08 at 10:24am
From Salon.com:
It is increasingly clear that John McCain and his campaign view his prisoner-of-war status as an unlimited immunity card. We have already heard a spokeswoman, while expressing outrage that annoying might imply that McCain broke the "cone of silence" debate rules Saturday, added, midsentence, that McCain was a prisoner-of-war.
And now his campaign, complete with an insult about how Barack Obama blog supporters are a bunch of "Dungeon and Dragons" types, has issued a statement from the campaign that, you guessed it, once again playsthe POW card while scoffing at--but not quite denying--suggestions that the McCain story of how one of his Vietnamese captors apparently duplicated an act of kindness that one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's captors did in Russia. Get a load of this:
"It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others."
Frank Nitti-style, McCain is going to flash his get-of-out-trouble-free POW card every time anybody challenges anything he says. Obama had better have an answer for this, and he would be wise to pick a vice presidential nominee to raise some objections to McCain's annoying habit. Given Joe Biden's famous "subject-verb-9/11" barb about Rudy Giuliani, the Delaware senator is looking better and better.
― Thomas Schaller
#2mccain's chi-town link
Posted: 8/19/08 at 10:26amfrank nittt-style? do they really want to use a name that hearkens back to chicago corruption here?
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2mccain's chi-town link
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:56pmSubject verb POW. Subject verb POW.
#3mccain's chi-town link
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:59pm
Right in the kisser!
And, as has been pointed out, the first people to cast doubt on the cross in the sand story were those liberal loonies who post at FreeRepublic (back in 2005).
eta: linky
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 12:59 PM
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