"Name the issue, and McCain will bring up his POW experience. I find it distasteful and unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. My Dad<http://wheresmyjetpack.blogspot.com/2008/03/panther-vs-dad-tied.html>served in Vietnam twice as an officer. He is also a graduate of West Point (Beat Navy!) and he got there on his own, without help from well-connected relatives. And he doesn't talk much, if at all, about his medals, his injuries or the things he witnessed. Very few of the soldiers I've known would, unless you really press them, and even then they'll do it reluctantly. There's an unwritten code among soldiers who've seen war and death that says, "You weren't there and you can't know. To share it with you would be to invite you into my nightmares and I'm not going to do that to you." But McCain has no problem bringing it up every day. He gambles that you will see him as some sort of John Wayne/Rambo/Clint Eastwood type. Or that you will pity him his time in prison and regard him highly for his ability to endure. The sad fact is that John McCain was the favored scion of a high-ranking military family who should not have been admitted to Annapolis, much less Navy flight school. The fact that he got shot down and captured is tragic, but it in no way qualifies him for the Oval Office.
And sadly, this isn't the doing of Karl Rove or some other Republican spin-meister. McCain has been trading on this story for decades<http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/22/mccain-campaign-video-exhumed.aspx>. That alone says more about the man than the story he keeps telling." Links: 1 http://wheresmyjetpack.blogspot.com/2008/03/panther-vs-dad-tied.html 2 http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/22/mccain-campaign-video-exhumed.aspx McCain has traded on the story of his POW days, as has his campaign staff. They use this to try to show that he has served his country, that he's been through a lot and therefore he is more fit to be commander in chief than someone who has not faced combat and paid the price. I don't understand how or why anyone would want to argue that both McCain and his campaign staff has not tried to use his Service Record for political gain. 2008/8/25 sam morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I didn't realize you wanted me to prove you lied. If you use your secret > source on each quote you randomly found bulleted in the exact order as > jetpacks jokes you'll see they all point to the same location. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266535 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
