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To: Will88

What I do not understand is how people on this thread are acting as if Trump insulted ALL POW’S when it is perfectly clear that he was addressing MC CAIN. To me it is an issue between Trump and McCain....after all McCain started it.


120 posted on 07/18/2015 11:15:26 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1
To me it is an issue between Trump and McCain....after all McCain started it.

Trump made a mistake, but I think McCain calling thousands of Arizonans who support Trump "crazies" is a far, far worse insult and more out-of-line than what Trump said.

But we want see many in the media pointing out how arrogant and insulting McCain was.

129 posted on 07/18/2015 11:22:10 AM PDT by Will88
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> “...how people on this thread are acting as if Trump insulted ALL POW’S when it is perfectly clear that he was addressing MC CAIN”

Exactly right. McCain was no hero according to the Commanding Officer of all POWs inside the Hanoi Hilton, Admiral Stockdale. He performed what was expected of him but he exhibited no heroism.

Yet in 2008 while unsuccessfully running for president McCain allowed the MSM to embellish his record as some sort of grand hero in Vietnam when it was a lie.

An honorable man would have immediately corrected the press by making a statement that his service was not heroic, that finer men than he exhibited brave acts of true heroism, that his suffering did not equate to acts of heroism.

Instead McCain allowed the lie to be perpetuated and in so allowing he stained the reputations of all true American heroes.

Suffering elicits sympathy and appreciation; embellishment invokes wrath and chastisement.


137 posted on 07/18/2015 11:27:08 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Oh he insulted all POWs who were shot down.

If you don’t know that then I’m just saying it for the sake of anyone who might be persuaded to buy your argument


138 posted on 07/18/2015 11:29:35 AM PDT by stanne
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