Letters to the Editor
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I'll start the swiftboating of this 'hero'
Ahem... if he was a POW, doesn't that mean he FAILED his mission? Oh and he successfully ESCAPED right? I mean, thats why he's a hero isn't it?
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The Sequel
"Honest John: The Lobby Whore Years", a touching story of how a vietnam victim turns himself into another kind of John, screwing the people on behalf of the wealthy. Another lovely story would be how he kicked his first wife to the curb after having an affair with his now-wife, the brain dead arm candy that's "always proud of America". Miss Congeniality.
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Does this mean it is still appropriate...
...to wear band-aids with purple hearts on them to the nominating convention, or is that now impermissible? It's just too much to keep these double standards straight...
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McCain "all American" McHero
Chuck "the Chump" McNorris has been signed on play the real McCain in a new upcoming epic miniseries entitled "Hotel Ho-Chi Min: or How I Won the War in Indo-China and then Went on to Victory Iraq."
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A Hero?
Only in AMerica can a POW in Viet Nam,be a hero.
Held captive by a bunch of bamboo stick army and illeterate soldiers, and not able to escape for how many years?
NOw any smart American like McCain did not even try to escape once. What sort of prisoner is that?
What a loser.
A Hero is someone who gets caught, escape and return to revenge.
He spend all his time during the war sitting in a vietcong prison and not able to escape .. well it must be a top prison.
What a loser.
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Svenson
Only an intermittant McCain fan (when he isn't pissing me off) but he was interned in Hanoi, not some Rambo jungle stockade. He was offered parole at least once because his dad was an admiral and he turned it down because it was not offered to comarades.
I don't think time spent honorably as a POW necessarily qualifies you to be president of the united states. Neither should it be minimalized as a sign of character, at least at that time.
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If someone dropped bombs on my home, he'd be dead if I caught him..
Some "hero".
He didn't get drafted against his will. He knew the risks, he brought death and destruction to another country, and in my opinion, he should thank his lucky stars he wasn't shot outright upon capture.
We here in Arizona know this guy is as full of shit as a christmas turkey, too.
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Counting the time
So MaCain was a prisoner for five and half years... Come this fall it will be around five and half years since the American people were taken prisoner in another senseless war. When will we be releasesd?
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No Hero, War or Otherwise
While I respect McCain's service to our nation, I'm tired of him being referred to as a war hero. Being a POW does not make someone a war hero. Doing heroic things, makes some a war hero. Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown is a war hero, who risked her life to save the life of fellow soliders. John McCain is just a guy who graduated from United States Naval Academy 884 out of 889. He then when on to crash three airplane, get captured, endured five years as a POW where he was saddly driven to attempt suicide, came home, cheated on his wife who had been in a car accident, traded damaged wife in for a newer model that could finance his bid for a Senate career where he promptly go caught up in the lobbying scandal of the decade. John McCain is many things, but heroic is not the word that pops to mind.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23547346/
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Listen to the Winter Soldier Hearing at www.warcomeshome.org
If you really care, let the McMedia/McPress know about these hearings and that you want it reported. Also, let the "Candiedates" know about it, in case they are unaware of this stealth message for peace. Ask for John Kerry, who appeared in 1971 at the original version, to make a statement, if he dares. He has enough of his wife's money to withstand the heat.
I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation
peace,
st john
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@svenson
svenson: "Held captive by a bunch of bamboo stick army and illeterate soldiers, and not able to escape for how many years?"
You're confusing John McCain's experience with the movie "Rescue Dawn." McCain was in a standard concrete-wall type prison. Escaping would have been tricky (if only he'd had a poster of Raquel Welch to cover the hole he was digging with a discarded paper clip).
svenson: "NOw any smart American like McCain did not even try to escape once. What sort of prisoner is that? What a loser."
Whatever you think of McCain, this ugly line of thinking will not win any converts to the Democratic side.
I do think it's a little weird how some people get misty-eyed whenever people discuss their military service in past wars, or when anybody who serves in a war is automatically called a "hero" (though it's the least we can do for people who end up injured after carrying out orders from an unwise government).
But just imagine all the potential swing voters out there who might vote for Obama/Clinton. Imagine how much less likely they'll be to do so after seeing McCain's military service attacked.
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McCain pimps himself
Look, I can see how McCain's campaign wants to present an image that will enhance his chances of being elected, but please! This guy was no Audie Murphy. The fact that he went through his harrowing experience should've made him wary of careless military adventures. Instead, he seems willing to expose others to the nightmare he went through. And to what end? He drinks the Kool-Ade of AIPAC and the neocons and offers no real rationale of why we're in Iraq. Why not do a video of why he thinks were over there, and back it up with FACTS?
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McCain's "journey to the presidency"
John McCain's sojourn in Vietnam as a Prisoner of war was an ordeal for him and his family, and an american hero. But is that really any reason we should elect him President?
NO.
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Amazing
I am amazed at this hostility towards him for being shot down, captured, imprisoned, and tortured. It does NOT have a thing necessarily to do with presidential qualifications, but I am stunned at the derisive mocking of that period of his life.
Do you realize he cannot raise his hands over his head on his own and therefore cannot comb his hair? Watch him on stage with his wife. They clasp arms and *she* raises his arm over his head.
He himself jokes on the stump he is not a hero. The heros are the ones who managed not to get shot down.
The South Vietnamese singled him out because his father was running naval operations at the time. They were trying to break him given his high profile affiliation. He spent 5 1/2 years in the middle of a major city. They were put there precisely because it would be impossible to hide and slip away in a jungle.
Calling him a coward and worse for not getting out of there when he was badly wounded in the crash and then further harmed through beatings that separated both of his shoulders just baffles me. Good lord, you do not have to vote for him, but this kind of rhetoric is utterly reprehensible. It's mind boggling, sickening, shameful and sad.