“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
I don’t think McCain would want you to vote for him just because he suffered as a POW. That also is part of his character.
To you and all the other twits who can’t see past the blinders on your eyes:
This article was not an invocation to vote for John McCain. It was one great American war hero talking about another great American war hero.
I am not voting for John McCain. I’m going to leave the top of my ballot blank.
But I will not sit here and read you low-lifes degrade the service of a great American hero.
Not without telling you what I think of you: self-centered, self-important, self-aggrandizing, selfish arrogant prigs. All of you.