Letters to the Editor
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John McCatin, Selective Intelligence
Shameless. He's just shameless.
All of the Republicans are. They are without shame.
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His true nature
This isn't John McCain politically hedging. It is John McCain exposing part of his true nature. He has many admirable qualities. He has many many faults. He has given more than most in service to his country, and for that he deserves our thanks. However, let us not forget that when he was shot down in Vietnam, he was not only acting on behalf of our nation, he was a tool of the military/congressional/industrial complex and his job at the time was to drop bombs on both military targets and civilian targets. He is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, by his own admission. Being in his position, it is his moral responsibility to A. Dismantle the war complex that put him at odds with true American interests. B. Act to end the use of torture by our government and others. He has done neither. For whatever reason, he rarely stand up for what is right.
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John McCain
lost his "center" and became the "man" he is today following the 2000 election cycle where he found out that integrity, honesty, and ideas mean little or nothing to the electorate. He probably went home, took a shower, and took a long look in the mirror and was hit by a neocon epihany: "I'm not going to sit here and feel sorry for myself! I'm going to get back on that horse and get even. Yep. No more Mr. Nice Guy for me. Why that bitch..."
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straight talk
"Straight Talk" is what I expect to get when I buy a used car.
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Congratulations, John McCain
You're winning the support of rabid right-wingers at the expense of the moderate Democrats and Independents who supported you in 2000 when the rabid right-wingers were viciously maligning you.
Being a POW in Vietnam couldn't break you, but the American political campaigning process could. Wow.
I think I've discovered a new "torture-lite" technique to use against enemy non-combatants.
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Is this really a two day story?
Tim, why are you wasting your time with this? As if any candidate is going to admonish his or her supporters at a rally. Certainly you can find SOMETHING of substance to cover, can't you?
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It's sad,
more than anything else, to see a man once considered courageous and honorable reduced to craven grasping for political advantage. A man who stood up to his captors for five years, who stood up for his fellow POW's, cannot find it in his heart to stand up to his supporters to defend his female opponent against a particularly nasty insult--because there's no political gain for him in the GOP primary by doing so. John McCain has no honor left.
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Remember 2000
He watched his own wife take a pounding from the Rove machine in South Carolina and didn't complain much. You expect him to defend Hillary Clinton?
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Further proof
that women are still 2nd class citizens as far as the Republicans are concerned.
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In case you're interested
The Hilton Head Island Packet identifies the woman as Linda Burke of Wexford, SC.
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Republicans are all about demanding denunciation.
Do they ever do it themselves, when their supporters go off the deep end? Hardly. And it happens with much greater frequency. Pat Robertson alone could outstrip the entire Democratic side of the equation.
Really, if anyone on the Dem side had any vision whatever, I'd expect nonstop vilification of the Repubs from pillar to post. And when someone says something extreme, back him or her, and urge whoever it was only to say it again.
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I agree with zenbooty
You don't castigate your supporters. He answered the question as if it were a serious one and did not indicate agreement with the use of the term. Its one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't moments. He might not use that word, but other people will, so he gets tarred with that brush.
Of course, I think the woman asking the question was probably Dick Cheney in drag.
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I don't care if he condemns the bitch comment.
In fact, I hope he embraces it. It think we will see more of this kind of comment and probably from some of the Republican candidates themselves, who have good reason to resent having to run against a woman.
I just wish he would retract that statement where he called Petraeus honorable. Petraeus is a tool of GWB.
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How about Romney?
Remember when he agreed to hold a sign that one of his supporters was carrying that said "Say no to Obama, Osama, and Chelsea's Moma [sic]"? Funny, I don't remember that getting as much publicity as the MoveOn "Petraeus-Betray-Us" ad either. Apparently smearing a white, male military officer is more unacceptable than. . .
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I don't Remember what I said yesterday
It is absolutely amazing that politicians seem to forget that this is the age of video and instant replay.
In this country where too many citizens seem to have the attention span of a gerbil, even they are beginning to understand that they are being played.
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McCain
Please let us not forget the foul mouth asshole who is the real John McCain. One can almost see him laughing his ass off as tells his fellow pilot/jocks his new joke about the real parentage of Chelsea Clinton.
Christ, picking on a 13-year-old. That after dumping his first wife to marry for money and whatever else the straight-talker was scraping his knees for at the time.
When one sees him hugging Bush after what those freaks did to him and his second wife and their children in South Carolina, you are seeing the real straight talk express.
What an ass.
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THIS NEEDS MORE, NOT LESS MEDIA ATTENTION!!
I am STILL astounded by the LACK of attention this has received. Unlike some of the commentators here, I think we should hear more, much more about this. The problem is, as I am beginning to see, that most of the media commentators who are brushing this off are MEN! White men. Do you suppose thay would treat this a casually if the women had asked, "How do we beat the N****R?" The word she actually used is just as offensive to me, as a woman. McCain is toast with nearly every woman who heard his ungentlemanly acceptance of the use of the word, in his presence.
Shame on him and anyone else who shrugged this off. I'm sickened and I am not a big Clinton supporter.