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ORIGINAL: corysub
I voted for McCain because he represented the lesser of two evils, in my opinion. I didn't like the man, his politics, his willingness to surrender to liberal democrats and declare it to be bi-partisan compromise. McCainn was picked by the media who were totally concerned that Mitt Romney not only was the guy who looked like a president, but had the experience and qualifications to actually beat the democrat nominee. And so they attacked the man...not his politics...his religion, not his politics....and gave McCain tens of millions of free of negative campaign propaganda that put him in the position ...to lose.
That's right, Cory.....It is absolutely horrible when you attack someone on a personal level...when you say things that have no bearing on the campaign just to make a person look bad and try to garner a few votes. It's sad indeed when someone with no scruples, no decency, no moral standing whatsoever tries to falsely denigrate someone just to win a campaign. Take, for example, this horrible specimen of a political hatchet job:
[color="#000000" size="2"]"The word is that he (McCain) wouldn't have made the grade as a naval aviator had not his father and grandfather been flag officers, but that's beside the point. [color="#000000" size="2"]
McCain was awarded a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals, two Purple Hearts and a dozen service awards. Unfortunately the narratives for the awards only speak of his having undergone extreme mental and physical cruelties at the hands of his captors, and were described as "boilerplate" and
"part of an SOP medal package given to repatriated (Vietnam-era) POWs" by Naval officers Hack interviewed. The medals were basically given out for being there, not for heroism. [color="#000000" size="2"]
The problem here is not that McCain didn't have terrible things done to him for a long time -- he did. The problem is that neither he -- nor anybody else who was in prison camp -- had a choice about whether they were endangered. But medals for heroism are supposed to be given out for actual heroic action, taken willfully and at great personal risk. They shouldn't be awarded simply because someone survived an involuntary ordeal. And didn't survive it as well as many others. McCain was quoted as saying "O.K, I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital" four days after his capture and later signed a confession declaring himself a war criminal. And although McCain refused an early release, the word is that he was ordered to do so by his U.S. POW commander. [color="#000000" size="2"]
It was unquestionably a long, painful nightmare for McCain to log all that time in a North Vietnamese prison and, for that, he deserves genuine sympathy -- the kind of sympathy you reserve for someone who survived a five year battle with cancer. And the experience may (or may not) have made him a better person. But based on the facts, he's not a war hero. And it speaks poorly of him to let his handlers promote him to the public in that way." [color="#000000" size="2"][WorldNetDaily.com]"
Was this the work of one of those Dasterdly Democrats? No..it was Carl Rove's office in 2000 who tried to destroy the image of McCain as a war hero in light of Bush's history of not getting any closer to the war than Texas.
But go ahead, blame the Democrats, the liberals, and anyone else you like, Cory. Oh...I heard it's going to rain today...DAMN those Democrats, right?
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