Posted on 04/05/2008 1:40:04 PM PDT by jude24
Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.
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Godspeed to LCpl James McCain and his fellow Marines
If this were John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama or John Edwards, it’s all you’d ever hear about and read, 25/8, 395 days a year!!
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Since this comes from NYT, it could mean nothing but good for John McCain. Right??
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The President's son would make a high-value target.
He already is, thanks to the New York Slime!
I am sure John would have liked to keep this quiet and out
of the public eye! Now Al-Quaeda knows where he is! He is now a High Value Target!
The Marine Corps wouldn’t give a shi’ite, they’d stick him in on firewatch at 0200-0400 with 0500 reville. That is what makes the US so differant from the UK and why we don’t want to be them... We don’t have no royalty! Don’t you remember Full Metal Jacket...Lawrence...Lawrance of what, Arabia? You sound like royalty..are you royalty?
Thanks, NYT.
It would have been wise NOT to write about it at all. Terrorist read our newspapers, follow our blogs and scan everything for info to hurt us. All former military know things are supposed to be on a “need to know” basis. Some things aren’t necessary for all to know. But the BLABBERMOUTHS on the left can’t resist being sure everything, except the needed truth and Jeremiah Wright is talked about to the whole world.
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Lol! You're right, they would have it on an endless loop that played over everything and everyone else except when they themselves came on the airwaves to tell another lie.
Jimmy McCain was in the platoon at MCRD right behind my son’s.
...it’s all you’d ever hear about and read, 25/8, 395 days a year!!
And don’t forget, the son/daughter would be depicted as a sympathetic victim of a war-mongering, power mad neo-con/nazi president.
A Hollywood Marine? Or a “Real” Marine on the land God forgot, Parris Island?
AKA Fantasy Island, where women become Marines.
As misguided and maddening as Juan is, the fact is he loves and believes in our country enough to have his son serve in the armed forces. You will never find a demoncrat candidate for president who would ever let his son (or daughter) serve, because they don’t love or believe in this country.
Because of that, McCain gets my vote...reluctantly..but without a doubt.
When he gets elected I will fight him tooth and nail every time he bends liberal. Bush’s many slants to the left have demonstrated that we can stop GOP silliness.
I think it speaks well of McCain that he doesn’t run around trumpeting his son’s service in order to score political points.
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