Not Fit to Shine McCain's Boots

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | May 26, 2006 | Christine M. Flowers

[avacado]

--- Citizenship is wasted on such as these. ---

That sums it up for me!

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe I'm the only retard in the world that does not think that getting shot down because you suck as a pilot and surviving torture ranks as heroic in the same vein as what an Audey Murphy, George Patton or George Washington did in their heroics

Do you include every POW from Vietnam in that description?

[familyop]

But does he support the whole War on Terror, including what we have to do about Iran?

[OKIEDOC]

John McCaniacs time in the Hanoi Hilton warped his sense of responsibilities.

I respect the sacrifice McCain made but that was as a young man and should not give him a free ride from criticism for his future shenanigans in the Senate.

Unlike McCain, Kerry went to Vietnam to film a biography about, John Kerry, star.

[Non-Sequitur]

Right over my head.

Do you agree with Rohe's sentiment and with Huffington's description of her actions as heroic?

[Lancey Howard]

It's very tough to take anything from the Stinky seriously. That paper is probably the most shamelessly leftist toilet tissue in the nation. I suspect that the paper will be printing more "guest op eds" like this one in an effort to try to fool the new owners into thinking the paper has gone from raving goofy to just plain puking liberal.

[Lancey Howard]

John McCain was a war hero.

I forget - - who did he rescue? How many fellow warriors did he save? What other heroic deeds did he accomplish? Thanks.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

How can we, whole in body and strangers to the hell he experienced, challenge this patriot? To do so indicates a fundamental inhumanity.

Nonsense. McCain deserves to be honored for his service and sacrifice. He does not deserve to go unchallenged for his views or his politics.

[TheCrusader]

Why do people think that being a veteran automatically makes a person honest and trustworthy? Being a veteran myself, I really don't quite get the connection. There are veterans who are trustworthy and there are others who are not. For some people being a war veteran can actually have both a positive and a negative influence on their lives.

Take McCain, for example. In my opinion he is a RINO at best, and a bleeding heart liberal at worst. He jumped on the Abu Grahaib prison debacle like a true politician, throwing his own POW status into the ring to justify his writing of legislation that was acutally INSULTING to American servicemen, because it insinutates they were torturing prisoners. I respect McCain for his service, but that service is no guarantee that he will always be honest, nor is it a guarantee that he won't put his personal agenda before that of the voters who elect him.

[Logical me]

John McCain was a war hero. These Democrats need to realize that if it were not for people like him, they couldn't stand up and make their ridiculous protests.

Yeah, he won the war by himself. Oh, that's right, we lost.

[Not now, Not ever!]

Nope, John Mc Cain was a good and honorable man, Noy the use of the word "WAS".
He can now be relied on only to disappoint.
huffington is a nut job, un-reliable.

[George W. Bush]

Are we supposed to care what the liberals in the assylum are screaming at each other?

Medicate them and move on. But don't elect them. Especially McLame.

[George W. Bush]

McCain is the last of the "Keating 5" senators.

Funny how McLame, one of Keating's bag-men in the Senate, never has any reminder of this scam thrown in his face by the libmedia.

[sinkspur]

Pro-mccainiac piece designed to show him as a rightist patriot.

Wow. The chaplain thinks it's OK for McCain to be dissed in public.

Had I been Bob Kerrey, when Ms. Rohe came up for her diploma, I would have ripped it to shreds in front of her face, and let all the little pieces float down to her feet.

[streetpreacher]

Where's the Barf Alert?

I guess this is the start of the FR John McCain Bandwagon when we forget all of that nasty stuff we've written about him and get on board for 08. Count me out. Four more years of this kind of conservatism and what little remnant of a republic we have left will be gone.

Heck, in light of today, by 2008 it might be Arnold and Vicente on the ticket.

And McCain is a war mongerer. Of that, there is no doubt. Heck, this guy would probably have included Russia and China in the Axis of Evil...

[RWR8189]

Yeah...I'm really part of the "FR McCain bandwagon"

[Sgt_Schultze]

They are biding their time. If McCain is finally the Republican nominee for president in 2008, the reminders will hit the fan along about October - count on it.

[Publius6961]

Do you include every POW from Vietnam in that description?

I might be inclined to answer an impertinent question such as this one if someone can explain why Cunningham has been left out of this discussion... pro or con...

Even mass murderers have served in the armed forces.
The need to muddy the waters in a political discussion has always evaded me. Other than to deflect and obfuscate, what purpose does it serve?

[Bommer]

As a Hero? No! You consider every battered wife that survives a beating a hero? Sorry I hold the word in a higher esteem.

[jslade]

Hero? Are you kidding. He got his ass shot down. Plus distoyed 4 other navy planes. He did nothing heroic. He was, and is mediocre at best.