Posted on 01/31/2008 5:16:24 PM PST by Always Right
It would be interesting to see how is campaign is getting financed.
John McCain is surging because when voters sit back and look at the field of candidates, out of all of them he's the only one in the Republican upper tier who is consistent. He is consistent in a field of GOP candidates who appear to be inconsistent from one year to the next, and from one decade to the next, on issues important to this campaign.
He's his own man and he's the only adult in the field who has shown consistency. You always know where he stands, You may not agree with his positions on immigration or campaign financing, but he leaves no doubt about his positions on those issues.
John McCain is a man of great courage, in-your-face honesty, and gravitas. He stands out among the leading candidates who seem to be one way today and another way tomorrow. John McCain has been the same yesterday, is the same today, and you know he will be the same tomorrow. That's what the voters are looking for and this is why we are seeing this movement to John McCain in New Hampshire and other states.
What did he mean by that?
Incredible charges need incredibly good evidence. You don’t have any. Please refrain from making shocking charges of treason and collaboration with communists unless you can back them up.
From Wiki....(shorter than his personal account, but largely taken from it)
McCain spent six weeks in a hospital, receiving marginal care, was interviewed by a French television reporter whose report was carried on CBS, and was observed by a variety of North Vietnamese, including the famous General Vo Nguyen Giap. Many of the North Vietnamese observers assumed that he must be part of America’s political-military-economic elite.[39] Now having lost 50 pounds, in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white,[35] McCain was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Hanoi in December 1967, into a cell with two other Americans who did not expect him to live a week (one was Bud Day, a future Medal of Honor recipient); they nursed McCain and kept him alive.[40] In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would be for two years.[39] In July 1968, McCain’s father was named Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), stationed in Honolulu and commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater.[4] McCain was immediately offered a chance to return home early:[35] the North Vietnamese wanted a mercy-showing propaganda coup for the outside world, and a message that only privilege mattered that they could use against the other POWs.[39] McCain turned down the offer of repatriation due to the Code of Conduct of “first in, first out”: he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.[41] McCain’s refusal to be released was even remarked upon by North Vietnamese officials to U.S. envoy Averell Harriman at the ongoing Paris Peace Talks.[35]
In August 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions and beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[39][35] Teeth and bones were broken again as was McCain’s spirit; the beginnings of a suicide attempt was stopped by guards.[35] After four days of this, McCain signed an anti-American propaganda “confession” that said he was a “black criminal” and an “air pirate”,[35] although he used stilted Communist jargon and ungrammatical language to signal the statement was forced.[42] He would later write, “I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.”[39] His injuries to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head.[43] His captors tried to force him to sign a second statement, and this time he refused. He received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal.[44] Other American POWs were similarly tortured and maltreated in order to extract “confessions”.[39] On one occasion when McCain was physically coerced to give the names of members of his squadron, he supplied them the names of the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line.[42] On another occasion, a guard surreptitiously loosened McCain’s painful rope bindings for a night; when he later saw McCain on Christmas Day, he stood next to McCain and silently drew a cross in the dirt with his foot[45] (decades later, McCain would relate this Good Samaritan story during his presidential campaigns, as a testament to faith and humanity[46][47]). McCain refused to meet with various anti-war peace groups coming to Hanoi, such as those led by David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, and Rennie Davis, not wanting to give either them or the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory based on his connection to his father.[39]
In October 1969, treatment of McCain and the other POWs suddenly improved, after a badly beaten and weakened POW who had been released that summer disclosed to the world press the conditions to which they were being subjected.[39] In December 1969, McCain was transferred to Hoa Loa Prison, which later became famous via its POW nickname of the “Hanoi Hilton”.[39] McCain continued to refuse to see anti-war groups or journalists sympathetic to the North Vietnamese regime;[39] to one visitor who did speak with him, McCain later wrote, “I told him I had no remorse about what I did, and that I would do it over again if the same opportunity presented itself.”[39] McCain and other prisoners were moved around to different camps at times, but conditions over the next several years were generally more tolerable than they had been before.[39]
Altogether McCain was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 27, 1973, ending direct U.S. involvement in the war, but the Operation Homecoming arrangements for POWs took longer; McCain was finally released from captivity on March 15, 1973,[48] having been a POW for almost an extra five years due to his refusal to accept the out-of-sequence repatriation offer.[49]
First he wants you to pay to see his full article.
Second he doesn’t source any of his charges to anything but anonymous sources that whispered it to him.
“A little birdie told me” isn’t evidence.
What are we? Democrats?
Lets oppose McCain with the FACTS; not historic revisionism.
I didn’t make the charge—I don’t know what to make of it. I am making reference to the post in the other thread.
Well, fast forward one year, McCain was openly offering to collude with Obama on a number of issues. Does that count as evidence?
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