Posted on 06/20/2008 9:58:18 AM PDT by mngran2
Yes he did.
On his show tonight, Dan Abrams drew attention to a quote from John McCain in an interview with Sean Hannity that flew under the radar for the past 3 months:
HANNITY: -- and then I understand you didn't get any medical help for nine days. You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?
MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company, but probably the most important thing about it, Sean, is that I was privileged to have the opportunity to serve in the company of heroes.
In light of all of the political hay that the repubs have made out of Michelle Obama saying that seeing such enthusiasm in this election cycle had caused her to be really proud of America for the first time in her adult life, I think it is worth giving a second look. Does anybody think McCain didn't love America before he was a POW? No. It's interesting that both McCain and Obama used the qualifier "really" in their statements... although Michelle's comments are oft repeated without the "really." It's interesting how when lines fit or don't fit particular scripts the are or are not noticed. Obama's comment were pounced upon almost immediately, while McCain's comment wasn't noticed for 3 months.
Marxist Michelle can stuff it!
She needs to denigrate a real American in order keep her cover?
We know who she is, and she will slip up again, never fear.
Talkign Points Memo blog is run by a liberal. It’s garbage.
Yep, I always get kind of a lump in my throat when the Customs person says, "Welcome home."
we haven’t left the word REALLY out of MO’s comments; she did. She said she wasn’t proud at 2 separate occassions. Once w/ really and once without.
The men McCain was imprisoned with did all they could to survive the torture they endured. Tortures that the Obamas try to say are like the struggles that Black Americans faced in the 1960s.
But the men McCain was with did things like stitch together their own US flag. The man who made that flag was beaten by guards over it. And when they took it from him, he made another one.
The Obamas show open disdain for our flag. Have they suddenly come to love it and America? I think not.
I am one of the greatest McCain detractors on FreeRepublic and even I do not find problems with this statement and I understand what he meant.
You’ll rarely find me in the position of defending McCain, as he is the bane of my conservative existance; HOWEVER, his statements, when compared to Michelle Obama’s have a totally different meaning.
First, the qualifier business is just asinine with respect to proud. Either you are proud or you’re not. People love things, without “really” loving them all the time. McCain’s point was, it wasn’t until he was separated from America’s freedoms, opportunities, comfortable way of life that he really came to a fuller appreciation of them.
What it does prove is the lengths some will go to when they have an irrational hate of someone else.
First, we know that no Democrat loves America because of their anti-American ideology. Second, Barak and Michelle Obama are Black nationalists determined to destroy America, so they hate our country even more than most Democrats. Third, what John McCain meant (and what he should have said) was that he loved America more when he was in VN than before when he was just a privileged, playboy, hot shot naval flyer.
No, he did not!
Very nicely and accurately put
Thank you. That was my point all along. I think there's clearly a difference between these two statements, but now you have to explain context, meaning, etc. to viewers/readers/voters so it doesn't make it as easy to simply play the Michelle quote and leave it at that.
I lived in London in the 70’s as a young man. I had been conditioned by the MSM to think America was responsible for everything wrong in the world.
Being away changed all that. I wasn’t tortured either. I was just given perspective. McCain got perspective in much bigger doses.
He was making the classic “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” statement. Any other interpretation would be rooted in retardation.
Oh, and they will.
I’m moved.
God is so good, isn’t He?
I wish more people understood that...good explanation!
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