They lack substance to you because you are among the timid souls who failed to serve.
Garbage,
Serving has nothing to do with it.
His position on the issues is what counts.
Remember, that was 35+ years ago and he has changed dramatically since his early years in the Senat.
Serving or lack of serving has no relevance to the points SoConPubbie posted.
What John McCain did in Hanoi forty years ago is not relevant to today.
The John McCain of 2008 with his record of disloyalty and opposition to Conservative and Republican positions is the man that matters today.
Look how many Freepers comment that they have to hold their nose to vote for this guy. No lack of Stockholm Syndrome here.
No one is lessening what McCain suffered in Hanoi. But to say that makes him the wunderkund to President is wrong on two counts:
1) He effectively shut down the POW/MIA investigations. We knew that we left behind almost 600 POWs in 1973. What happened to them. McCain and Kerry(there’s a real pairing)ended an investigation dealing with over 14,000 sighting reports of American POWs in the 20 years after the war ended for us. Bud Day knows about that also.
2) As a former prisoner, he knows that non uniformed combatants are not protected under Geneva. In fact, American POWS have not been afforded protection under Geneva since 1947 in any conflict. So, why he is in such a lather to give Geneva convention protections to non uniformed combatants, move them to the US and give them Constitutional rights?
And if McCain is such a lover of America, why is he hell bent on amnesty, which will ruin this country?
The military service, heroism, et al is all well and good, but McCain has belied all of that with his positions.
You saw with your own eyes how he choose to aim and fire, not at his potential political opponents, but at his own party in North Carolina, last week.
And one’s service record, or lack of same, doesn’t change the facts about McCain.