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McCain's Hero Status A Delusion
John McCain has built his whole political career on his status of having been a POW. Yet if you go onto the Internet (e.g., YouTube) and type in "McCain POW," you find videos and other information by seemingly knowledgeable sources that assert: (1) that he made over 30 tapes condemning the US, as opposed to the one or two that the average POW made; (2) that he collaborated with the enemy in many other ways; and (3) that he protected himself during Senate hearings by keeping information classified that could have led to action to liberate other POWs. True?
 johnb  29 Apr 2008 17:50
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"McLame" ;-) is pathetic as a political representative of The People.
 
 TheMoon  20 Oct 2008 17:54
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John McCain is a pandering fraud. Whatever happened to him while in Vietnam, whether he was tortured or indoctrinated, he has squandered any goodwill for hoe 'sacrafice' with his votes for torture and voting against the GI Bill. Virtually everything is says is BS. He flip flops on almost every position and then lies about it. I'm waiting for the election and his hat being handed to him by what I expect to be a legendary defeat.

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 HopeSAT  17 Jun 2008 23:59
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Absolutely true. I wrote an article about this very subject in the articles section of this site and you will many references there. McCain even earned the nickname "Songbird" for himself thanks to his helpful, talkative attitude towards his "captors". It's incredible to me that Obama's patriotism is questioned because he refuses to wear a lapel win, whereas McCain's is taken for granted even though he was a Vietnam-era equivalent of Tokyo Rose. By the way, this stuff isn't in dispute since you can find Associated Press stories referring to it from the time, including his name "Songbird". This isn't some Swiftboat-style fringe conspiracy theory.
 
 Hidell  29 Apr 2008 18:04
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 How do you find these Associated Press stories on McCain?
by  johnb
 30 Apr 2008 18:10
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I think this old man met a great decision when he decided not to leave warprizon
although his father offered to fetch him.
BUT I cannot understand why this one point of his life should be as important as it is.
I think he was a hero when he stayed but today he only use this decision to get new voters.
And I think it hadn't been fair if he had been saved by his daddy while other young men had to work there hard or to die !!!
 
 thevoter08  17 May 2008 15:38
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To begin with, McCain is an idiot who should be better off sitting in a nursing home somewhere or off in the Caribbean enjoying retirement. He is as big of an idiot of George Bush and only someone who is messed up in the head would even consider voting for him. He is too old to be in office, he thinks identically to George Bush, and he has no idea what the American people need. He could tell you 100% what the people of Iraq need, but he is clueless about Americans. He is just another old geeser trying to destroy America just like George Bush. I don't care if he was a POW. He was probably a POW because of the idiotic decisions he made. Would you really want someone like that for President? He can’t even save himself, let alone a country. He is still an idiot who should not be allowed to run for office. Vote Democratic.
 
 BullDog  29 Apr 2008 18:06
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