Posted on 06/30/2008 9:20:50 AM PDT by kristinn
John McCain's presidential campaign sent out an e-mail today announcing the formation of the McCain Truth Squad to fight back attacks such as Wesley Clark's yesterday on Face the Nation.
The Politico posted the e-mail:
All: Please join us for a conference call launching the McCain Truth Squad -- a new group aimed at countering the recent attacks on John McCain’s military record. On the call will be Truth Squad leaders, including fellow POWs Col. Bud Day, USAF (Ret.) (Medal of Honor) and Lt.Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (Ret.), as well as Carl Smith, retired Navy pilot who served with Sen. McCain.
Looks like McCain has let bygones be bygones with Col. Day given their differences over the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth which McCain opposed and Day helped lead in 2004.
Col. Day has a much more significant connection with McCain than any past campaign can varnish - he nursed McCain back to life as his cellmate.
I read that it was McCain that set Col. Day’s broken arm.
I just hope they are able to put together a tech-savvy team. I do not trust the Obamacon techies, they’re unscrupulous and know how to subvert the internet resources (example - overloading the spam filters on Google for all anit-Obama blogs) That is the mentality of the people we will be dealing with this election. If they can steal this one, they will do so.
BTTT
Excellent!
I am glad they are doing this but....you would have to be willfully ignorant to buy into what General Clark said yesterday. Everyone has known of McCain’s war record for many, many years. His injuries are hardly open to political interpretation. One talking head moment cannot change reality, and you have to wonder what made anyone think it could.
I read the articles about their time together as POWs. POWERFUL stuff. Maybe Day can change McCain’s politically motivated snap judgment of the SBVfT.
A smear is a smear. Saying McCain shouldn’t answer Weasley’s smear because “everyone knows” his war record is like saying Obama shouldn’t answer the rumor that he’s still a Muslim because “everyone knows” he’s a Christian. And we KNOW nobody’s going to say OBAMA can’t answer a smear.
For anyone linguists who collect oxymorons, then I dare say they have found themselves a live one with that term.
Kind’a like a person with the name Biblebelter who likes to slander others. Another oxymoronic situation in the making.
I agree that McCain should respond forcefully. Any thinking person would know that the charge is base politics, but the trouble is half the people in the country don't think, they are emotion voters and will be swayed by their feelings.
FYI, my screen name is a geographic reference. I live at the intersection of the Rustbelt, Cornbelt, and Biblebelt. I have never slandered anybody that I am aware as the term "slander" is primarily reserved for a legal course of action. But yes I do ridicule, demean and belittle Senators like the RINO relic who are by and large a lying and unprincipled lot irregardless of the R or D attached to their elected titles.
Exactly.
Why? Overall, as politicians go, McCain's been more honest than most...it's been whether or not conservatives AGREE with those positions that's been the problem.
Whether the Bush campaign lied about McCain in South Carolina in 2000 is something that I do not have a strong opinion on. But I have a much stronger and fresher memory of 2008. I do know that McCain intentionally and dishonestly misrepresented what Romney said about withdrawal and date certain and that has nothing to do with any ideological disagreement I have with McCain nor was it because I was a supporter of Romney which I wasn't.
NOTE TO MCCAIN STAFF AND OTHER MCCAINIACS:
I AM accusing your man of pandering, lying, cowardice, and dishonesty, and I SINCERELY hope that one of you will put this message in front of him.
It is POSSIBLE - but by no means certain - that my family and I will be able to cast ballots for McCain this fall without losing our breakfasts all over the voting machines. But all of us reserve our ENTHUSIASM - and our $$$$ - for conservative candidates, not the unprincipled COWARDS who go behind closed doors to pander to gays, illegal aliens, and the greenie weenie gaggle.
Last night I had an extended conversation with a lifelong, diehard republican. He and his wife have been attending the national convention for years, he has run for Congress in Arkansas, been a county chairman, and will be heavily involved in the campaign this year in North MS. He spent an hour pleading with me to support McCain - and I spent the same time telling him how disgusted I am with his candidate.
In my opinion, McCain displays a total inability to grasp simple economic principles, illustrated by his populist “fairness” verbal meanderings about taxes. On the other hand, he has adopted the big-business view of illegals as a pool of cheap indentured labor, supported by our taxes for their education, welfare, and medical care. And I am enraged by his buying into the global warming hoax, giving full credibility to the hoaxers without giving any thought to the fully credible case for the other side.
I have no problem with voluntary conservation measures, or with electricity from nuclear power, as well as wind, solar and solar thermal, geothermal, and other fringe sources. But electricity will never move people or things around the planet and around the Country, although it will have limited use for short distances.
A hundred - or a thousand - years from now, that job still will fall to light liquid hydrocarbon compounds in a tank on board the vehicle. Hydrogen will never do that, and neither will ethanol. However, the source of these hydrocarbons will change. Instead of finding pre-assembled molecules that we can break into convenient sized pieces, we will have to assemble them from elemental ingredients - Carbon, hydrogen, and ENERGY.
All the carbon we need can be found in the tiny fraction of our atmosphere that is carbon dioxide (CO2), and all of the hydrogen can be found in our oceans (H2O). And enough energy to produce the precursor molecules (kerogens and bitumens) can be captured from the Sun, just as plants have done for millions of years - although we might want to supplement that with some of those sources of electricity mentioned above.
But until we have these new sources on line, we need to continue to tap the reserves of crude oil our planet has provided to us, without the artificial hobbles and bindings imposed on us by these Luddites.
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!
NOTE 2: This is personal to Mr. McCain, and NOT to the person who posted this thread. McCain ignores us, and I have no intention of ignoring that fact.
I said that as a politician he’s been more honest than most, not that he’s totally honest. It’s no different than his “straight talk” platform.
One thing McCain is not is a liar. There may be plenty to disagree with him on but so far as I know, he has done the things he said he would do.
So as entertaining as it may be to take pot shots, when you sit back and insinuate in writing that McCain can’t tell the truth, you are slandering him and his record.
Obama sends his appreciation. You can hang out in the Wes Clark club now.
Clark is a wussy little guy. You just can’t look at him and think “man.” He has to be dealing with a Napoleonic complex or something along that line. Not to mention, his political ambition seems to know no bounds. Just can’t stand him.
On the other hand, is there anyone with more credibility on these issues than Bud Day? He and McCain may have had their differences, but they are cut of the same cloth. Clark just doesn’t make that grade.
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