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Do you consider Sen. John McCain a war hero?
Decatur Daily ^ | 7-20-2015

Posted on 07/20/2015 4:43:20 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Freep this poll...


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A war hero? Yes.

But as a politician ... He's kind of a Schizophrenic Etch A Sketch.

1 posted on 07/20/2015 4:43:20 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

So what— that was then, this is now. McLame is an awful senator...war hero or not— doesn’t matter does it.


2 posted on 07/20/2015 4:45:02 PM PDT by tflabo (Rev Wright)
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To: Citizen Zed

100% no for right now!


3 posted on 07/20/2015 4:45:11 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I was ok with McC until he endorsed Baraq Obama for POTUS in fall 2008.

That was the end of it.


4 posted on 07/20/2015 4:45:42 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Citizen Zed

I”m not convinced he was war hero....he’s demonstrated absolutely no evidence of it in the Senate for 40 plus years.....


5 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:03 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: Citizen Zed

Not for his service — he was sort of a flying Gomer Pyle. Soldiers (or cops or firefighters) are not inherently heroes when doing their jobs.

But for his integrity in staying imprisoned with his brothers in arms when offered a walk-out. THAT was heroic.


6 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:34 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Compared to several of these names, not so much...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Hell_was_in_Session


7 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Citizen Zed

The definition of “war hero” stops where the definition of “treason” begins.


8 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:47 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I reject the premise of the question.


9 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Citizen Zed

The left has never been big on the Vietnam War. And GHWB, W and McCain are/were all fighter pilots. Whatever Donald Trump imagines himself to be, he ain’t no hero.


10 posted on 07/20/2015 4:46:56 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is a distraction from the crap Obama is doing. I don’t care whether he is or not, I care that Obama is transforming our cities.


11 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:00 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: Citizen Zed

I really don’t know or don’t care. This country is going to he** in a hand basket, and people want to play with these stupid polls? Now, if you asked me if I consider zero a communist, American-hating, POS - that would be easy to answer.


12 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:43 PM PDT by Catsrus (WWWW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
a lot of Vietnam vets don't see it that way....
13 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:46 PM PDT by Segovia
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To: MeganC

Still 100% No.


14 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:46 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Juan McVain’s war record is irrelevant at this point.


15 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:51 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Citizen Zed
"Do you consider Sen. John McCain a war hero?"

I don't care. This is of absolutely no significance to what policies a new President should favor.

16 posted on 07/20/2015 4:47:52 PM PDT by mlo
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To: Citizen Zed

ping


17 posted on 07/20/2015 4:48:07 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Citizen Zed

Did you vote YES? Because the poll shows 100% NO. No response number is given though.


18 posted on 07/20/2015 4:48:12 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“I reject the premise of the question.”

Precisely.


19 posted on 07/20/2015 4:48:21 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I really don’t know. To me a war hero is someone who risks his life to save others. McCain’s status was involuntary.

From what I could tell Louie Zamprini was a hero, he refused to break. Although I have sympathy for McCain breaking under excruciating torture. That’s understandable to me.

But a hero? I honestly don’t know.


20 posted on 07/20/2015 4:48:40 PM PDT by Aria
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