And Hitlery is a jack-booted bitch.
Posted on 05/08/2008 4:40:33 PM PDT by mnehring
John McCain rarely speaks about his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, but one of his cell mates at the Hanoi Hilton on Thursday described some of the conditions and character traits that earned McCain the commendations he received for his war service.
Col. George “Bud” Day, 83, is the most decorated service man since Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with more than 70 medals. A living legend, Day was blown out of the sky two months to the day before the North Vietnamese shot down a propaganda prize, whose father and grandfather were renowned American admirals.
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I saw Col. George “Bud” Day, talking about his and John McCain’s war experiences and it is very moving, and shows that John McCain has strength of character when it counts.
Thanks for the link. Good post!!
Thanks for posting this
Bttt
Very moving but irrelevant.
This does not change how McCain has voted on amnesty or taxes. Does not change his words or deeds on the border fence. Does not change his statements on marriage or roe vs wade.
We do not give Murtha or Rev Wright or Kerry a “free pass” because they served or did something of note.
This was discussed on FR a few weeks ago. Looks like McCain is just copying John Kerry’s campaign of being coy and allowing surrogates to say how wonderful he is/was.
Many people have “stepped up” in a crisis then have turned around and stood down in every day life.
Jane Fonda can be expected to issue a press release any day now saying that these are the lies of capitalist pigs.
I highly respect and honor Senator McCain for the hell he went through as a POW, he truly is what makes me proud of our military and veterans! :*)
(Unfortunately I do have a bone to pick with him over his ‘moderate’ (i.e. liberal) leanings in so many areas...)
Ditto;
I just wanted at least some sort of halfway positive news versus the typical bash fests. (No, I don’t support McCain politically)
BINGO!
Thank you, Mr. McCain, for you service and hardship on my behalf and I hope that America has repaid you well for your suffering and sacrifice.
That said, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman and John F’ing Kerry served their nation, too.
McCain is no friend of the kind of Conservatism needed to save this nation. He is a RINO and a globalist.
And Hitlery is a jack-booted bitch.
You are the one with the irrelevancy here. The man went through hell for serving his country at a time of war. I thank him for his service.
This has nothing to do with politics.
“Very moving but irrelevant.”
Completely agree.
Although I respect his service to our country, it does not earn my vote.
I wonder if people who will vote for McCain because of his POW statis, voted for Perot because Adm. Stockdale was Perot’s running mate.
“He(Adm. Stockdale) was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison for the next seven years. Locked in leg irons in a bath stall, he was routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, Stockdale beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. He told them in no uncertain terms that they would never use him. When Stockdale heard that other prisoners were dying under the torture, he slit his wrists and told them that he preferred death to submission.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale
Where did it go after he returned to the US? When has he shown it as a member of Congress?
Ben Franklin said it best, "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
McCain is our only hope to keep Obama/Clinton out of the White House. Rest assured that the Dem ticket will be Hussein and Hillary together and the Dem turnout will be huge. McCain may not even be able to pull it out even with full support of conservatives.
I lauded McCain, and tolerated his McCain Feingold faux pas. But what he did in organizing the "Gang of 14" and derailing the conservative agenda,McCains backroom politics against Tom DeLay, will forever cancel any gratitude I feel in relation to his service to our nation.I respect his service, but I cannot support him unless forced.
I still hold hope that McCain will be somehow replaced by a conservative at the Republican convention.Duncan Hunter will do.Or even Collin Powell. Perhaps McCain will destroy himself by having a "McCain moment" in public.
You, sir, are one cynical, sorry low-life.
My ex-wife had a longtermmemory (she never missed an opportunity to scold, berate,and belittle any who were around her) and it made her bitter, caustic, vitriolic, and a sad miserable human being.
Just give the man his props.
And, don’t ask how I really felt about her.
Yeah that’s right. McCain is just like JFK’s assassin and a murderous psychopath.
Well said.
McCain’s sacrifice should make us all proud to be Americans.
longtermmemory should us make us all resent being Freepers
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