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america needs mccain a.k.a mcbush.
that should really end america ...
Considering McCain has more experience in his resume' than Hillary and Obama COMBINED...
McCain has spent the last 20 years pushing the ugliest legislation through Congress, bucking dems and republicans alike, going to the middle countless times, on top of actually defending his country, a real plus considering the last two presidents cannot make that claim.
In fact, none of the current candidates can make those claims. They spent their senate years avoiding the hard work inorder to get you to vote for them, and it seems to work.
Johnny? He says 'suck my d--k!' and goes to the fire.
No, Johnny's not going to have any swiftboaters - his guys adore him.
There won't be any Dan Rather's concocting stories about his service: It's ALL public.
Nope, you have a real hero on your hands here, and we already see how you treat heros.
'WHAT A GOOD IDEA - QUIT WOMAN'
It is too bad that you can't honestly assert your opinions because you are afraid they will be ridiculed. McCain is the only one genuinely qualified to run the country compared to the other 2 junior senators. Additionally, he has shown that he genuinely loves the USA. Barack has shown genuine disdain for America and Hillary only loves power.
Clinton does not came about you or me all she cares about is getting here ass in the white,she's a loser.....
' I was having dinner with Mrs. Day last week. No, not Mrs. Doris day the actress, but the wife of the Late Colonal Day.
You see, Colonal Day was the senior officer at the Hanoi Hilton, the famous N. Vietnamese prison and death camp for American P.O.W's. One of the junior officers was John MCCain, who was a P.O.W. also.
Now Colonal Day had attempted escape, and the punishment was typical N. Vietnamese. They proceeded to fracture his arm, and set it crooked, with the bone exposed and then told him his punishment was to be crippled for life, and useless.
At the risk of being tortured himself, Lt. John McCain smuggled small pieces of Bamboo in from the compound, and, with his own dirty bandages from his own injuries i.e. his broken shoulders, and other injuries, he set the arm correctly.
Lt. McCain also was tortured. One of the things they did was to tie his head between his ankles with hands tied behind his back, knowing full well of his broken shoulder(s). To this day, because of this, John McCain is not able to lift his arms above his head.
One of the guards was so ashamed of this treatment, he bagan to untie McCain after the shift started, and retied him before the shift change. This saved John McCain from almost certain permenant debilitation. When he walked up to the guard in the compound, the guard made a christiasn cross in the dirt with his foot, and then shuffled it away before anyone could see it. When McCain went back to N. Vietnam, this was the only person he wnated to see.
Lt. McCain also led prayer sessions in the Prison, at risk to himself and others, recalling his Episcopal litergy from memory. John McCain was imprisioned for over 5 years. He refused early release, and stymied the enemies attempt to score a propaganda victory. He was tortured repeatedly.'
This was recounted from an Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, as told to Karl Rove, by Mrs. Day. The facts are not in question and John McCain neither confirmed or denied it.
He doesn't have to.
Everything about McCain, from his war record to his senate record is in public. This is the guy who's On the Record. He's the one with the stinky legislation in-hand. He's the one who bucked Boeing, when the others were sweeping it under the rug.
There will be no swift boaters for this soldier, definitely not one named Day, don't you think?
That being the case, I guess we can just say that you are just-a-little-more-than-full of crap. Then again, look at how you DO treat honest-to-god heros.
I repeat, McCain is no hero. He bombed so many american troops in South Vietnam that Hanoi considered giving him a medal. The guy was so incompetant as a bomber pilot so he was transfered to North Vietnam air ops, where he couldn't kill americans. McCain was no 'Top Gun,' he was a mud-mover. He also, single-handedly downed 5 american aircraft in his career. This moron couldn't drive a taxi let alone an aircraft. His story is a piece of hollywood fiction. But, he's a 'good' republican, just like that other war 'hero' Randy Cunningham. He got 8 years in jail for taking 2.4 million in bribes. Maybe he should talk to McCain about how to pick up the soap. What with al the other republican scandals, like sexual perversion, it appears that to be a republican, you need to be a low-life, scum sucking, lying, thief.
'I repeat, McCain is no hero. He bombed so many american[sic] troops in South Vietnam that Hanoi considered giving him a medal. '
Just a pathetic lie with absolutely no evidence. McCain's missions were in North Vietnam, idiot. There were no Americans in North Vietnam other then Jane Fonda you dirty little liar.
McCain's Navy records which were just released show an unblemished record of accomplishment and bravery.
Compare that to the America hating child that the democrats are running. Want to talk about 'bribe taking'? Better tell Barack not to drop the soap in front of Tony Rezko when the bribery indictments come down on the little brat that George Soros has decided is going to be nominated, the same little brat who has never served anything other then himself.
You and he have something in common, you are both little parasites living off the efforts and sacrifices of real men like John McCain. Stick that, loser.
The Department of the Navy released Senator John McCain's service record today in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated Press.
And it makes for some interesting reading. It essentially comes down to an unbroken record of achievement, courage and heroism :
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McCain was awarded a Silver Star Medal for resisting 'extreme mental and physical cruelties' inflicted upon him by his captors from late October to early December of 1967, the early months of his captivity, according to the citation. The North Vietnamese, according to the Navy, ignored international agreements and tortured McCain 'in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes.'
McCain, now the Republican Party's likely presidential nominee, was taken prisoner in October 1967 after he was shot down while on a mission over Hanoi. He wasn't freed until March 1973, after the United States signed peace agreements with the North Vietnamese. His captors tortured him and held him in solitary confinement. Still, he declined an offer of early release until those who had been at the prison longer than him were let go.
That decision earned McCain a Navy Commendation Medal. Although McCain was 'crippled from serious and ill-treated injuries,' he steadfastly refused offers of freedom from those holding him prisoner. 'His selfless action served as an example to others and his forthright refusal, by giving emphasis to the insidious nature of such releases, may have prevented a possibly chaotic deterioration in prisoner discipline,' the citation says.
McCain attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1954 to 1958, and was commissioned as an ensign in June of that year. He retired in April 1981 with the rank of captain. In that time he received 17 awards and decorations. Besides the Silver Star Medal, McCain also received the Legion of Merit with a combat 'V' and one gold star, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star Medal with a combat 'V' and two gold stars.
Several citations mention his achievements either as a prisoner or as a lieutenant commander flying bombing runs off the deck of the USS Oriskany. Some are signed by then-Secretary of the Navy John Warner, who would become a colleague of McCain's in the Senate.
The citations refer to his 'accurate ordnance delivery' and his 'aggressive and skillful airmanship.' He earned his Bronze Star the day before he was shot down, for participating in a mission over an airfield in Phuc Yen, 11 miles north of Hanoi.
The citation for his Distinguished Flying Cross sums up McCain's misfortune the following day:
'Although his aircraft was severely damaged, he continued his bomb delivery pass and released his bombs on the target. When the aircraft would not recover from the dive, Commander McCain was forced to eject over the target.'
Years later, as his Navy career approached its end, McCain received the Legion of Merit Medal. By then, his missions were in the halls of Congress as a liaison to the Senate from the Navy's Office of Legislative Affairs.
He was praised for providing Navy leaders 'with sage advice and sound judgment for enacting critical legislation during a period of severe fiscal constraint.'
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Not bad at all, for a potential Commander in Chief. Especially compared to the alternative.
Who would you rather have in charge when things get tough..the hero,or Mr. Hope n' Change?
An unblemished record of achievement. Baseless accusations will never fly, either, especially by some blowass in his Mom's basement.
Hero? Just ask the men who served with him. The story above is undisputed testimony. It was recounted by a man who had his life saved by John McCain.
Sorry, dickhead. There won't be any 30 year old documents made on a 10 year old dot matrix printer. Dan Rather is gone and the next libnazi dick on the news will be far more careful.
Now, go ask yourselves about the political neophyte the dems will trot out in a few months.
The Drug-using, Ivy league, America-hating, provincial, bigoted liberal, who thinks the heartland is chock full of angry gun-toting, but religous(?) men who can't get a job, as if he's ever been past the city limits in his life.
Gee, they sound just like his preacher to me!
'Just a pathetic lie with absolutely no evidence. McCain's missions were in North Vietnam, idiot. There were no Americans in North Vietnam other then Jane Fonda you dirty little liar'
His early ops were in the south. He was transfered to north ops due to the fact that there weren't any americans there that he could kill with his incompetence, a-hole. Suck it up, baby.
'Sorry, dickhead'
There goes penis breath using his vast vocabulary again. He uses dickhead so often that he is either suffering from penis envy or he has an unhealthy fascination with it. Just like those sexually deviant republicans caught toe tapping in washrooms. Is that what you're doing here, SP? Are you trolling? We know you're a troll, so are you toe-tapping here?
nothing derogatory will be found in McCain's file. His father and grandfather were 4-star admirals. The Navy would never allow anything bad to be said about a son of the Navy. As for his 'medals,' you yanks hand them out like candy. A guy will get a purple heart for a shaving cut.
A Navy Commendation Medal? For what, pooching the job and getting his butt blown out of an aircraft? This weenie ain't presidential material.
As for SP4 and this comment: 'The Drug-using, Ivy league, America-hating, provincial, bigoted liberal, who thinks the heartland is chock full of angry gun-toting, but religous(?) men who can't get a job, as if he's ever been past the city limits in his life.'
It sounds like he's talking about himself.
It appears the neocons still thin k the USa is a country that needs to be run like a regiment or a prisoner camp,hence the favouring of McCain .Wouldn't it be wiser to dispose of empty talk and paranoia and bring back the USA on the tracks of civilization and moderate action ?After all we don't spend half our resources on armament in Europe ,we rather see to it that our tax money goes to education,health care and other more important issues,giving an example to be followed .AZll the weapons in the world can not even provide a shadow of safety if the politics your country engages in is flawed .Your president responded to Twin Towers by invading Iraq,what kind of an idiot still thinks there is any logic in that .The problem that persists is that people like McCain have learned little from all that .Proclaiming that your country might have to stay 100 years in Iraq is only adding to the problem .In reality you are now faced with a quagmire that is very difficult to extract from without losing face .Hence the fleeing forward into repeating all the crimes you accused Saddam of .
Intelligence would be the primal necessity for any future president .The problems left by the previous dunce are urgent and complicated .The most menacing one is not terrorism but climate change .It has been festering for more than a decade,and nothing ever came out of Washington but hot air.
I hope you elect a president able to cooperate to solve this issue .Dinosaurs like McCain might perhaps flatter your pride but his mental abilities are insufficient for the task to come .Integrity is far from enough a quality these times .Intelligence is what is needed.Now why have none of you republicans here never discovered this fine quality with McCain,s it absent in him or in yourselves?
Judah Ben Hur for President, 2012 from the American Republic!
either of the other two.
...I don't know what island you have been on....but McCain is one of the guys who has been bucking big Pentagon spending his whole career.
In his latest row with them, he stuck his neck out on the Mid-Air refueling replacement, raising the ire of both parties, who had vested interests in letting Boeing just sweep into a 55 billion contract.
A couple of not-so-nice folks got canned and/or are serving time for that gem. Now any reasonable person would have to conclude that this is not the dinosauer you have framed McCain as, but then again, when you belong to the Libanzi Cult-Circle-Jerk Church, anything is possible.
Then there was the Campaign Finance Reform Bill, McCain-Fiengold, which just made the Repubs throw up. Realize that, there was nothing in this for McCain, he just f--king ignored the Republicans and Libnazis alike.
This is the real MCCain, the maverick, independent who could have just retired, or sat back like the careerists he's running against.
Instead, he dug into every stinker brought before him, consequences be damned.
McCain is, likely, going to lose anyways, but here is the guy who will take you into his confidence. His record proves it.
''McCain is, likely, going to lose anyways, but here is the guy who will take you into his confidence. His record proves it.''
You are so naive SP4. McCain is just another crook who wouldn't piss on you if you were ablaze, much less take you into his confidence. Any more tall tales in your wild imagination??
..right after the part where he risked his life helping precisely the folks who you think he's pissing on.
MCCain was never stationed In Vietnam, bonehead. he was assigned to Carriers, exculsively. This being the case, I guess, once again, we can file it under youare-just-a-little-more-than-full of crap
We know libnazi propaganda when we see it. The dem slime machine is starting it's swing...
No, this one never joined the Nat'l Guard like Bush, or dodged the draft like Clinton. He's the real article. You're going to have to do better than that.
Curiously, for a dickhead like you, I'm surprised you wouldn't bring up something legitimate like The Keating Five, instead of this Mushroom High list of crap...?
Then again, given the Clinton's involvement in White Water, and Mr. Obama's involvement with Tonny, 'the Knife' Rezko, it hardly makes sense to pursue that, eh?
'His early ops were in the south. He was transfered to north ops due to the fact that there weren't any americans[sic] there that he could kill with his incompetence, a-hole. Suck it up, baby. '
Yeah, all that makes so much sense. Where is YOUR service record? Oh yeah... you don't have one either.
Go back to your Cheeto's and x-box you complete loser.
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Clinton willMay 8th, 2008 - 17:28:13
be good for the USA. She knows more about the job than the other losers combined. This is no job for OJT; Bush has proven that.
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