Posted on 04/20/2010 9:52:16 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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His actions including McCain-Feingold have endangered his son’s lives. McCain knows what is going on but he toes the line for the usurper. The one who had MB moles in his campaign and also who are now in the govt and defense department. I am sure they are leaking intel back to Al Qeada and the Taliban to kill our soldiers.
I am amazed at how naive some people are especially those who have connections to the military. Folks you just don’t know what is going on. Open your eyes. Connect the dots.
I’ve never understood the motivations of people like McCain, who even at an age well beyond normal retirement (for most Americans), stay in the game of politics.
Personally, after the age of say, 65 or so, I think I’d be ready to give it up and do some living while I still had the chance.
For my money, there’s far too many shriveled old geezers in Congress for the good of the nation. Even my own House Rep is way too old, though he’s a good man.
My thoughts exactly. he’s way past normal retirement age, his wife owns a very large Budweiser distributorship, and from what I’ve read, he retires at 100% Senate salary-does he also get military retirement? Why is he hanging on?
Power -- the only thing that he has ever been in it for.
I only wish that he were the honorable man that you think that he is.
There were a group of 500 American pilots rescued from behind enemy lines during WWII, who sought recognition from the US government for those who saved them. Instead, the US State Department kept a lid on the story of their rescue in order to appease the communist government that had since taken over that country. These Airmen were represented by Retired Major Richard Felman of Arizona, and they had the support of Arizona State Legislature, the Arizona American Legion, the Tucson Veterans Affairs Committee, former Sen. Barry Goldwater, former U.S. Rep. Mo Udall, and former Gov. Rose Mofford.
Here is how Major Felman described his experience with John McCain in an article for The Tucson Citizen, November 9, 1992:
"My hopes for finally uncovering the truth were raised when we elected U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., to represent us. I felt he could identify with what it meant to be rescued, since he was shot down in enemy territory and endured five years of torture in Vietnam.
It took me almost seven years to get an appointment with him. While expressing sympathy for our effort, McCain told me he could do nothing. Instead of calling for the investigation I requested of our serious charges - withholding the truth from members of Congress and using taxpayer funds to disseminate communist propaganda are federal offenses – he told me the only way to get at the truth would be for me to write the 435 members of the house of Representatives and get a majority of them to support our effort.
I thought the reason the people of Arizona elected politicians was to represent them in Washington.
At this point, our disillusioned group of aging veterans has given up trying to repay our nation's debt of honor to those on foreign soil who saved American lives. After risking our lives and watching our buddies in combat get their arms, legs and heads blown off, we returned home to find an uncaring bloated bureaucracy that treated our service to country with contemptuous disregard.
After 47 years of disappointments our noble effort has failed. How can we expect the government to level with the American people about the MIAs in Vietnam, when they are still covering up the truth about the MIAs from World War II? "
This was written in 1992. In 1999, Senator McCain made his name nationally known by bombing the very people that Major Felman had sought to honor, thereby empowering the jihadists who tried to bomb Fort Dix.
McCain suffered for his country and that is true, but so have many others -- not many of whom have spent their entire lives exploiting that military service as political capital the way John McCain has. He has had no sympathy for those who also served and suffered.
I am sorry but I don't share your respect for McCain. I think that he is a self-aggrandizing, cold-blooded, narcissist who needs to leave office now.
See post 26.
bttt
I just sent JD a check
it was only $25.00...But I havent been making much since King Obama Usurped the Country.
I wait with baited breath..to see the sick look on McCain’s face on Election night.
Why hang on in DC?
Power.
It is more addictive than any drug.
Don't lecture me not to attack the very useful idiot of the Demorats.
p.s. Probably the reason he "crosses the aisle" to vote with the Democrat Commies is that is the way he had to get along in North Vietnam and he is appeasing those with a Communist bent by near instinct alone.
Good, now perhaps he’ll go to church on Sunday instead of appearing on all the TV morning shows!
The idea that politicians will serve unto their death beds needs to stop. McCain needs to retire. Pelosi needs to retire. Any of them over the age of 65 need to let go of the reins of power. I have no doubt at one time McCain loved this country, but the times and man have changed.
J.D. has yet to hit McCains real hot buttons. He is saving those for a month prior to the primary ;-)
JD Hayworth! JD Hayworth! Yes!
Adding this thread to:
Hayworth vs. McCain — Primary Headline Roundup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456305/posts
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My thoughts exactly. he’s way past normal retirement age, his wife owns a very large Budweiser distributorship, and from what I’ve read, he retires at 100% Senate salary-does he also get military retirement? Why is he hanging on?
“Power — the only thing that he has ever been in it for.”
It is more than just power. Ever since McCain was “overlooked” in 2000, he has apparently dedicated the balance of his life to GETTING EVEN WITH CONSERVATIVES. He hates us!
I know someone's being sarcastic (or I hope so), but calling a bill "rabid anti-illegal-immigration". And saying AZ would be the 'Alabama of the West'?!?
Really. WTF is that! It is insulting in so many ways I don't know where to begin!
Rabs, thanks so much for the ping—you know my interest in MCStain and the Vietnam POW/MIAs an dhow he put the kabosh on that investigation.
And Bokababe, thanks for the background on theYugo leader who helped save the 500 American pilots.
MCLunatic was a pilot and a POW—you would think he would have jumped at the chance to lead the effort for this recognition.
But as it as always been clear—McLooney is always for the opposite of the personna he projects for public consumption.
In him, and him alone, I place the blame for the usurper we have now in the Oval Office.
“Fight with me!” was a hollow refrain at the 2008 GOP Convention. Sarah Palin campaigned her heart out, but McStupid was part of the Soros game plan, and took a dive for the team.
I will always believe that McWartonthefaceoftheRepublic was turned in Hanoi, because I cannot explain all of his anti-American actions since he came to the levers of power.
He cannot be trusted, he is not a conservative, and I can never forgive him for what he and Kerry did to the POW/MIA families in 1992. There is no excuse in the world I will accept from him.
It has been 18 years almost, and I am still enraged. Hundreds of his fellow prisoners we left behind in 1973 died off, one at a time, hoping and praying their country had not abandoned them.
McEnemy always traded on his POW experience in his political campaigns—it was the badge used by his supporters that he was a true blue American patriot.
His actions for the last 25 years have shown us that is one thing he is not.
I hope the last thing he sees while in his mortal coil is the faces of all of the POW/MIAs he abandoned when he had the chance to makes things right.
John McCain has done many things I did not agree with, but many more that I did.
Did JD get defeated in his reelection bid for Congress, or did he quit?
It would be nice to have a candidate that you agree with 100%, How does that happen? He agrees with you 100%, how can any candidate agree with all 100%..
MUST SEE! FLUSH THE JOHN! Johnny’s got to go!
This one is hilarious and VERY accurate! (4 minutes!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJobkdeho88
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