Posted on 04/30/2008 10:30:39 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...As we ate near the Days' home in Florida recently, I heard things about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling. Moving because they told me things about him the American people need to know. And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of the most private individuals to run for president in history.
...Mr. Day relayed to me one of the stories Americans should hear. It involves what happened to him after escaping from a North Vietnamese prison during the war. When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."
The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm...[McCain re-set the arm]
...Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours. The torture so badly busted up his shoulders that to this day Mr. McCain can't raise his arms over his head.
Mr. Day recalls with pride Mr. McCain stubbornly refusing to accept special treatment or curry favor to be released early, even when gravely ill. "He wasn't corruptible then," Mr. Day says, "and he's not corruptible today."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Today, Mr. Day, a very active 83, still vividly recalls Mr. McCain's sermons. "He remembered the Episcopal liturgy," Mr. Day says, "and sounded like a bona fide preacher." One of Mr. McCain's first sermons took as its text Luke 20:25 and Matthew 22:21, "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's." Mr. McCain said he and his fellow prisoners shouldn't ask God to free them, but to help them become the best people they could be while serving as POWs. It was Caesar who put them in prison and Caesar who would get them out. Their task was to act with honor.
“I heard things about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling.”
That actually sums up McCain for me in a nutshell.
Not that I have a whole lot of choice this election.
You should read the article.
I did.. thats why my 2 cents was "needed"..
“McLaim was a weasle when he was a kid and is a weasle now..”
Say what you want about Sen McCain, but the man served his country honorably under horrible circumstances. I may not agree with his politics, but I will never denigrate his military service.
I did read the article..... so he was an exemplary prisoner. He helped his fellow inmates. He did not try to escape (as was his duty). He may be a veteran ... and I honor his service. However his past performance over the past 10 years show that he is a liberal. He is not a conservative. He is a republican, and he is changing his stance on government run health care. In summation the only difference between him and hillary is the R after his name.
If it’s McCain + a Conservative VP, I’ll vote McCain.
If it’s McCain vs. Obama, I’ll vote McCain.
If it’s McCain + RINO vs. Hillary, I might just sit it out.
so he was an exemplary prisonerHe wasn't an exemplary PRISONER, you numb-skull. He was an exemplary AMERICAN.
How demeaning of you to say that. I don't have to ask if you could have done the same. Your nasty words speak for themselves and the answer is NO.
I agree. It isn’t McCain’s history in the military and as a POW that I disagree with. That is fine, but it is no reason to elect a man president. After all, Reagan and our current president never saw combat, some successful presidents never served in the military, George HW Bush (unsuccessful) was a war hero, and Carter (very unsuccesful) is a graduate of Annapolis, though I believe he never saw combat.
What I disagree with is McCain’s current and recent positions on crucial issues like immigration, free speech, and loyalty to Conservative values.
That is why I can Never vote for this man.
My position on this is McCain is a war hero and served our country well. Has dedicated his life to public service.
So what!
My concern is the issues, not 40 years ago. What direction will he take the country?
I will not vote for a person based on the war hero line if they are an ardent Socialists, just isn’t goning to happen.
Much better to vote FOR Hillery and fight her in the Congress then him and not be able to fight him at all.
I was almost to the point of considering him until his outburst last week at the NC GOP.
My question to everyone who supports McCain is why hasn’t he jumped out at the DNC over their recent ad?
I must think it is becasue he doesn’t want to offend his liberal friends.
If McCain wants my vote he’ll have to get it the old fashioned way, EARN IT.
I do not think he will appoint conservative judges to overturn McCain/Feingold.
He is against drilling Anwar, thinking golbal warming is real.
Congress is not our friend .. hasn't been for some time .. and it looks even less friendly next year.
What makes you think there will be LESS of an X42 machine should they get in the White House? X42 will sack any and everyone not a signee to the kneepad coalition.
A Marxist and an uber Marxist are still Marxist.
I fear we may be needed on Lexington Green.
No, I really do.
My friend all three of them embrace Marx to some degree, Karl not Harpo.
And I hear what you are saying, but we are not there yet.
With a Democrat as POTUS, we would need to push republicans to stall everything.
If it were McCain, the R’s in congress couldn’t stand up against the party, McCain would reach acrooss the ailse and sell us down the river.
Then, on the other hand, there are those conservatives still mad about McCain-Feingold. I guess they believe there isn't enough money in politics.
The American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime rating of 83/100 and last year 80/100. Still the xenophobes claim he is not a conservative.
That is intellectually dishonest. The fact that CFR (McCain/Feingold) restricts free political speech (that pesky 1st Amendment thing) is what bothers conservatives. That has been reiterated so many thousands of times it can't have been missed.
Then there are those who recognize the undeniable fact that there is more money in politics now because of McCain/Feingold and it's used with less accountability.
“Seems like if you don’t hate the illegals, you aren’t a conservative.”
How about if you just want the damned law enforced, you race baiter?
“He is WORSE than a democrat.. “
worse than Barack “USofKKKA” Obama
i hardly think so
what are you a troll?
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