Posted on 02/06/2008 10:08:13 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
For those who missed it A long time GOPer came up with the following line:
I could see that being a FREEPER war cry!
You’ve got that right. That caller was great.
I remember hearing that sentiment back in the 2004 election cycle when John F. Kerry was trying to ride into the White House on his having been a "war hero" too...
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For the sake of accuracy, the caller was quoting Thomas Sowell who made the Benedict Arnold remark.
i am sure he will post that exchange, and the caller was great! she spoke for me.
benedict arnold was also a war hero before he was a traitor.
Let’s not go down this path.
McCain served and suffered.
If we are offended by how McCain talks about it we should retain our dignity and not join in the denigration.
Benedict Arnold was also a general. McCain was a lieutenant naval aviator.
Voting for what he did in the 1060s, would be like voting for a WWI hero forty years after WWI. Or voting for Bob Dole forty years after he served in WWII. We know how that turned out!
Rush is going to replay her call coming up here real soon.
Oops, 1960s.
So McCain is a traitor?
I’m going to post my thoughts on Huckabee and the evangelicals here. I know it’s going to really get some people mad but I have to pass on my thoughts about that sleazy Clinton wannabee from Hope.
During his years as governor, Huckabee granted clemency an average of about once every four days. Huckabee’s successor, Mike Beebe, has issued 40 so far this year, fewer than one a week. Bill Clinton, Frank White and Tucker granted 507 clemencies in the 17 1/2 years they served as governor.
In August 2001, Eugene Fields, of Van Buren, Ark., was convicted of his fourth DWI charge, a felony in the state of Arkansas, was sentenced to six years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Fields reported to prison in August of 2003. But prison records obtained by NBC News show that six weeks into that six-year sentence, Fields’ application for clemency, a commutation of his sentence the governor could issue to grant Fields an early release from prison, was unanimously supported by the parole board. Within months, Huckabee issued his intent to grant executive clemency to Fields, who was released from prison soon thereafter.According to Federal Election Commission records, a month after Fields’ appeal was denied, his wife made a $5,000 donation to the State Republican Party in June of 2003. A month later, she made an additional $5,000 donation, again to the Republican Party of Arkansas. The following month, Fields reported to prison and began his clemency application process. He was a free man in less than a year. Prior to his wife’s donations, Fields had made a $10,000 donation to the Republican Party of Arkansas in October of 2000 under “Fields Investment Company,” the name of his business. Both Mrs. Fields’ 2003 donations and Mr. Fields’ 2000 donation placed them among the largest, individual donors to the Republican Party of Arkansas in those years, on par with donations from members of the Walton family, of the Wal-Mart department store chain. The only other donation made by either Fields to the State Republican Party was in the amount of $500 in August of 2004.
What kind of a man gives a sermon at the church of catholic hating pastor? What kind of a man tries to besmirch another candidate’s religion? This is a man of God?
What kind of a man raises a kid who hangs and slashes a dog? We usually hear kids like that come from some sort of dysfunctional family.
And there’s always the “gift registry” scam that enabled him to get gifts from people while circumventing Arkansas political gift laws.
I have always admired people of faith. However, I’m starting to have second thoughts about evangelicals.
So for all the evangelicals who profess to be so holy and Christian and voted for Huckabee I say the following. Those of you who were unaware of the previous facts about Huckabee are probably admirable people. Those evangelicals who knew about his past and did not find any of this disturbing are not very Christian in my opinion and are not worthy of anyone’s admiration. You are just fake, phony holier than thou frauds.
>>>>>>>>You’ve got that right. That caller was great.<<<<<<<<,
So true seems to me...
I think I posted that this morning on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965847/posts
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To: Teacher317
John Mc Cain is the modern era Benedict Arnold.
We and the dRAT’s have something in common.
The base of each party is currently motivated not by any inspired support for one or more of its own candidates, but always and only out of a dread of how the country might suffer at the hands of the candidate from the opposing party. And the situation has remained in this dismal mode since the onset of the ‘08 campaign.
27 posted on 02/06/2008 7:56:11 AM PST by IrishMike (Liberalism is Jihad from within)
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There are a LOT of war heroes (not even counting the fake ones like John Kerry) in this country, but that alone doesn’t qualify anyone for the Presidency. Not even McCain.
What? You think John McCain won’t be swift boated by the DNC for claiming war hero status? LOL!
I’m not going down that path. McCain’s service is irrelevant to his candidacy in my book. His liberal record (McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, et cetera) is the real deal-killer.
Wait a sec. Just wait a sec.
Arnold was a flat-out traitor. Let’s remember what Arnold did: gave battle plans and troop movements to the British military.
McCain is not a traitor. A political backstabber, yes, but traitor to his country, no.
Let us not go down this road. This sort of stupid hyperbole wrecks credibility of those who spout it.
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