John McCain was cool when he was a POW. Remember that grainy black and white film footage of him in the prison camp.
When McCain came on the national scene about at the turn of the millenium and I saw this, I respected him. I thought he had integrity. I thought he was a man of substance. I wanted him to get somewhere.
Then he let Bush’s dogs, Karl Rove and Company, turn him into Bush’s bitch during the first election. He’s been suckingling from the teat of the Bush Administration since then. How can he even support that war monger? We’ve been watching him whimper about on his personal tour bus, The McCain Straight Talk Express, while Bush is tripping over jets on aircraft carriers.
Meanwhile, he showed up at Liberty University for a kissy-kissy commencement speech with Falwell.
I bet you thought all those things were my biggest complaint about McCain.
WRONG! Just last night at one of the Republican debates McCain admitted that he voted to authorize the U.S. military invasion of Iraq without reading the formal National Intelligence Estimate in advance. I’m sick. You’re a former prisoner of war. If anybody knows what horror could be in store for our troops, it is you. And you voted for us to go to war without even reading the proper documents beforehand.
My biggest complaint about McCain is that he still pretends to have integrity, so much so that he thinks he should remain in the Presidential race.
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Sad to say he is still in the presidential race and after so many months, who would ever guess that a liberal would be a forerunner in the republican party. Owell should please all the libs out there!!
mark on February 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am | Link
I must also add I find it disgusting that you would refer to anyone as cool being a POW… Liberal, conservative, democrat or republican whoever it is not cool to be a POW it is horrifying. Hope thats on a level you can understand Mr. Squeaky!!!!
mark on September 7th, 2008 at 6:43 pm | Link
I didn’t mean to say/imply that “being a POW was cool” in the literal sense. I was saying/implying that the image that John McCain had (and in fact is still touting himself) at that time in my mind was that he was a surviving POW and this gave him some John Wayne like coolness. This was a long time ago.
Sadly, as was the point of the post, after years of being run over by the Bush administration, I no longer feel that way about McCain.
I will reiterate, somebody who has been a POW should never vote to send our country to war without reading all the intelligence reports. Of all people who should know better, he should have. Is this the type of leadership we are to expect if he is elected?