I know it's not an actual McCain QUOTE, as such, but...
Posted on 02/05/2008 7:00:57 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
As compiled by myself… I’m sure you have some of your own. Just a little friendly jab on this Super Tuesday!
10. “The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.’” -When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00
9. “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.” -12/18/07
8. “It’s not social issues I care about.” -2/3/08
7. “F*ck you! This is chickensh*t stuff.” -to fellow GOP Senator John Cornyn on the Senate floor during an argument about McCain’s amnesty bill, 5/19/07
6. “No, I’m calling you a f*cking jerk.” -to fellow GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked “Are you calling me stupid?”, 2/21/00
5. “[C]ertainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to undergo illegal and dangerous operations.” -8/24/99, and repeated three other times during the campaign
4. “John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We’ve been friends for years. Obviously, I would entertain it.” -When asked if he would entertain being Kerry’s VP if asked, 3/10/04
3. “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” -2/07
2. “I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.” -2/20/05
1. “I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.” -4/29/06
And, a bonus one for free:
“Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this… I wouldn’t call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole.” -to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow GOP Senator Pete Domenici in a Senate budget hearing.
Lies maybe? I hear that a good lie goes close to 3 trillion now in regards to the net effect of the sub-prime fiasco. LOL!! You buy! cheap! cheap! No worry! it good!!
“McCain is hateful, stupid and foul.”
He’s among the worst this country has to offer. Of course he should be president.
The only good that will come from the next four years is no one can blame Texas for any of it.
BTW, when I googled "McCain" and "Manchurian Candidate" I got 39,100 hits.
Oh, it won't stop them. "Real conservatives" are already Blaming Bush for bringing us McCain...what was he SUPPOSED to do, throw him in prison with an iron mask on??
For those who don't know the captain's story:
On 19 May 1967, while on his 81st combat mission over North Vietnam, Eugene "Red" McDaniel was shot down while flying his A-6 Intruder aircraft. He was listed as "missing in action" until 1970, when the Hanoi government acknowledged that he was being held prisoner. A POW for more that six years, McDaniel was released 4 March 1973, after the Vietnam cease-fire.
Red McDaniel was one of the most brutally tortured prisoners of the Vietnam War. This torture resulted from his active role in camp communications during an organized escape attempt by his fellow prisoners. He is the author of Scars and Stripes, a book telling about his six years in a communist prison.
When Red McDaniel returned home from Vietnam, he was awarded the Navy's highest award for bravery, the Navy Cross. Among his other military decorations are two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit with Combat "V", the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars with Combat "V", and two Purple Hearts for wounds received at the hands of the North Vietnamese torturers.
Captain McDaniel resumed active duty and served as Commanding Officer of USS Niagara Falls and Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. Under his command, Lexington experienced no serious accidents while accomplishing more than 20,000 carrier landings.
Red McDaniel served as Director of Navy/Marine Corps Liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981. In this capacity, Captain McDaniel worked daily with Congress on national defense planning and provided legislators with information vital to the strategic development of Navy forces throughout the world. He retired from the Navy in 1982.
Today, Captain "Red" McDaniel is President of the American Defense Institute, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. He founded ADI to increase public awareness of the need for a strong national defense.
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