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| Minimizing McCain's Experience |
| 2008-07-06 |
| By Jack Kelly As Jim Geraghty of National Review Online noted, there are 'way too many' of these attacks on Sen. McCain's war record to be a coincidence. But if it's a deliberate strategy by the Obama camp, it's an odd one, because there is no way a comparison between Sen. McCain's record on national security and his makes Sen. Obama look good. What's important about Sen. McCain's experience as a POW is not what it taught him about conducting foreign policy, but what it teaches us about his character, wrote 'Uncle Jimbo,' a former Special Forces soldier, on the milblog 'Blackfive.' 'John McCain was so loyal to the men he was imprisoned with he endured torture on their behalf,' Uncle Jimbo said. 'Barack Obama associates with those who can help his career, and throws them right under the bus when they become inconvenient to his aspirations.' 'In minimizing the import of McCain''s military service, Clark instead opened the door to the sort of criticism that Obama, who painstakingly praises McCain's military record at virtually every event, cannot afford,' wrote Jay Newton-Small of Time Magazine. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The WWII revisionist are out in numbers too because the war is the standard others are compared to. If Iraq becomes another democratic society like Germany and Japan, those who've opposed it will disappear in history as those who opposed the involvement of the the US after Pearl Harbor. Same here, attack the experience standard, no matter if you agree with it or not, that McCain has to offer, because what you offer can't measure up. The appropriate campaign slogan for them should be 'Better to rule in Hell, than serve in Heaven'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-07-06 16:20 |
| #1 My fellow Americans: As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change. I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing. I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively. And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House. Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt. I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them. Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me. Thank You. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-07-06 07:48 |