McCain and POW as an excuse for everything (vote, Iraq, campaign)
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John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.
"To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all." [RIGHT]-- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan
It isn't that people don't respect McCain's POW experience, it is that he seems not to respect it. He is now using it as a crutch and not a backbone. It is hard for anyone to continue showing his service the respect it deserves when he is using it to shill for him. I sometimes wonder if that was the only time in his life when he feels he acted with honor and courage because it seems to be the only thing he can talk about. POW or not, you should know how many homes you own....and to use your POW experience to even duck that minimal amount of information makes it seem so cheap.
Hmm, someone can't read, he's talking about McBush, and its a documented fact he likes them much younger.
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