Obama backer ridicules McCain’s military experience
posted at 6:40 pm on May 20, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Jim Geraghty has this right, although he left one out: once may have been an anomaly, twice a mistake, three times suspicious, and four times is a strategy. A Democratic candidate running against Jack Kingston in Georgia who supports Barack Obama ridiculed John McCain’s military service in a campaign appearance yesterday. Bill Gillespie called McCain a “self-promoter” who came from “Navy royalty” who didn’t earn his way through his military career:
A prominent local Barack Obama backer bashed John McCain’s military record Monday, calling the Republican presidential candidate a “self-promoter.”
In a nearly-half hour speech, Democratic congressional candidate Bill Gillespie praised Obama, his party’s leading White House hopeful. But he devoted most of his remarks to criticisms of McCain, an Arizona senator who has wrapped up the GOP nomination and was in Savannah for a fundraiser. …
He said his “heart grieves” for McCain’s suffering as a POW. “After that,” Gillespie said, “he was somewhat of a celebrity and it went to his head. … I think he was a self-promoter for the last four years (in the Navy.)
Asked to cite specific examples, Gillespie responded, “I don’t have one right now.” [emphasis mine -- Ed]
Shorter Gillespie: “I don’t know what I’m talking about.”
Now we have at least three Democrats and Obama supporters on the record as attacking McCain’s 24 years of service in the Navy: Gillespie, Jay Rockefeller, and Tom Harkin, as well as unnamed “colleagues” in the Matt Bai hit piece in the New York Times. The criticisms sound remarkably similar; all of them question the quality of his service, claiming that he grew up as a child of privilege and had his career handed to him, in a role where he didn’t know what combat was really like. He had a “silver spoon”, was “Navy royalty”, and so on.
This sounds like someone wants to fight the elitist stink that has attached itself to the Barack Obama campaign through the intrepidity of the candidate himself. Obama scorned middle-America voters as bitterly clinging to guns and God because of a lack of wealth redistribution in America, while his wife told audiences that she only starting taking pride in America when people supported Obama’s bid for the presidency, and his pastor and friend talked about the US government’s creation of the HIV virus as a genocidal tool against people of color. Team Obama has argued ever since that McCain is the real elitist, and not the Harvard-educated man who sat on boards with William Ayers and never knew he had befriended an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
If the Obama campaign wants to continue its denigration of military service, let them. It’s going to be difficult to sell McCain as a man who got a free ride through a distinguished naval career and attempt to turn a real war hero into a dilettante. That effort will reveal the anti-military animus that surrounds Team Obama and its supporters on the hard Left better than any ad the Republicans can produce.
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@$$clown
spacekicker on May 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM
Bill Gillespie called McCain a “self-promoter” … who didn’t earn his way through his military career
Yet you proudly cast your vote for John Kerry?
Tony737 on May 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Sounds good to me.
And let’s hear more from Michelle Obama while we’re at it.
wise_man on May 20, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Truly stupid, especially since McCain and the Republicans get to go last with their convention, which means any type of Democratic spin like this now through late August in Denver will be more than trumphed by the McCain biography video at the RNC convention in September.
jon1979 on May 20, 2008 at 6:46 PM
If he had added comments about McCain’s ‘illigitimate Vietnamese kid’, this attack would have equaled the allegations made by Bush in 2000. But who can live up to the legacy of Rove?
bayam on May 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Please, don’t throw me in that briar bush.
a capella on May 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Let them try this strategy. I’ve been through SERE-C and it sucked. I can’t even imagine what McCain went through. The fact that McCain suffered some of the most severe torture any American has ever had to endure, and refused to give in, speaks for itself. Not only did he not give in, but when given the chance to go home early as a propaganda ploy by the NV, he told them to shove it and stick him back in his hole.
Team Obama’s strategy is going to piss a lot of Americans off.
BadgerHawk on May 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Ah bayam, clueless as ever, I see…
Del Dolemonte on May 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Speaking of John Kerry – if anyone has not watched this video, please watch this 5 minute youtube video “Jim Webb’s Dark Ride.” Considering Obama might pick him as his VP, there are some very interesting quotes there, and worth remembering including John Kerry and others.
wise_man on May 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
This is what I like to hear. Middle America will never buy this, they are preaching to the choir, and the choir is tone deaf.
I want them to do this more, attack McCain where he is strongest. While representing a man that never served. Meanwhile, McCain’s sons are fighting for our country and not a peep from McCain.
I want more of this…complain more about McCain. That was like taking a shot a Gen. Petraeus, look what that got them.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
That has never been proven. You are repeating a lie.
wise_man on May 20, 2008 at 6:51 PM
I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty! Did someone say self-promoter?
Seixon on May 20, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Real war hero? Distinguished naval career? You mean McCain, who crashed or almost crashed three planes and has broken under pressure for forty years. The one who gave the Vietnamese aid and comfort by writing “I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate. I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors.” And the one who had a father as an Admiral looking over him?
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Dan Abrams, is that you?
Spirit of 1776 on May 20, 2008 at 6:54 PM
McCain has a son serving in Iraq as we speak. Trash that one too, fool.
JAW on May 20, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Whaaaat? What a weird and sick post…
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Link? Source? Lie?
billhedrick on May 20, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Oh by the way you want to supply a little context for his “betrayal?” Did he sit down in Saigon after a night of drinking at the officer’s club and write that?
billhedrick on May 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM
I keep forgetting… what branch of the military did Obama volunteer for??
(Absolute Moral Authority Card alert)
NTWR on May 20, 2008 at 6:59 PM
He’s definitely in the running for Most Valuable Tool (MVT) of the year. This years awards ceremony will be held in Denver after the democrat convention.
Other nominees include Gillespie, Rockefeller, Harkin and Joy Behr.
darwin on May 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Did you miss the numerous articles where McCain makes his opinions on those tactics very clear, leading to his decision to not vote for Bush in 2000?
Let me correct that- those attacks didn’t come from Bush, but from the “Bush campaign or affiliate organizations”.
bayam on May 20, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Typical LIberal hypocrisy.
Gatordoug on May 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
It stems from the fact that McCain adopted a child from a Bangladesh orphanage. Because she is dark skinned and Asian looking, the two rumors printed was she was an illegitimate Vietnamese child, or a “black love” child from an illicit affair. Take your pick.
Bob Jones University professor Richard Hand was one of the culprits spreading the rumor…once again a benevolent Christian man, trying to destroy a family. Here is how Hand defended his false allegation (which the school should have made him resign…if they were Christian).
Gee, I wonder why Christian leaders are frowned upon…
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Chapter 3 of his biography. See http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter3.html.
He broke after torture to be sure, but he has a long-standing pattern of caving under pressure. Look at what he did with the Supreme Court nominations, immigration, First Amendment Rights, screwing around on his first wife, the Keating Five, etc. He goes weak under pressure.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:05 PM
jim m, please, please, please keep touting this. I BEG YOU!
blink on May 20, 2008 at 7:06 PM
jim m
Hey buddy, unless you can tell me you’ve strapped on 20 tons of aluminum and thrust and flown into AAA, dodged SAM’s and landed on a carrier during the day and night … you’re really looking like an ass.
darwin on May 20, 2008 at 7:06 PM
That’s nothing but the kind of right-wing b.s. that tarnished a great American hero in the 2000 election. McCain’s permanent bodily injuries alone speak to the great sacrifice he made for his country.
bayam on May 20, 2008 at 7:06 PM
He was flying his twenty-third bombing mission over North Vietnam, when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.
23 missions.
I wouldn’t care if McCain cheated his way to the bottom of his class at Annapolis and his Admiral forebears had to over-tip to get John into an ejection seat — twenty-three missions over North Vietnam.
Shut the fuck up.
Oh, yeah, shot down.
Oh, yeah, tortured.
Shut the fuck up and go kill yourself.
Thank you.
Stephen M on May 20, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Yes, jim m. Keep it up. The American people will surely turn away from McCain if you prove that he signed a piece of paper while being tortured. Yes, great strategy! :)
blink on May 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM
bayam, it takes no brains to get hurt for your country.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM
From: Richard H. Davis, president of the Reform Institute and a partner in Davis Manafort, a political consulting firm. He was a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in 2002. He was campaign manager for John McCain in 2000 and has worked in every presidential campaign since 1980.
*
Please, you don’t help any by spreading vicious unproven rumors. You are no better then the ones who falsely accused McCain of an illegitimate child.
*
Please retract, or show some proof, not editorials, but proof.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Jane Fonda gave the enemy aid and comfort without having her bones broken and having to live in rat infested hell for five years. Go play your violin to her.
darwin on May 20, 2008 at 7:09 PM
McCain. Weak in 1968. Weak in 2008.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Maybe you don’t know this … but you don’t have to vote for him.
darwin on May 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Then it seems that you’re uniquely qualified. Go for it.
Hollowpoint on May 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Jim m we get it…you are like the monkey on the end of the organ grinders chain.
Here, catch a few peanuts, now go away.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I guess John Kerry’s three months in Vietnam, followed by a political career built on slandering one’s fellow soldiers, are what it really takes to be a respectable military man.
Cicero43 on May 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Throw him a couple of peanuts, then move on.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Kerry and McCain: Both kept men by rich women.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM
You’ll have to forgive me, as I’ve forgotten since the last time we spoke. How many years did you say you were severely beaten and tortured by the Vietnamese?
amerpundit on May 20, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Cicero43
Don’t forget Kerry took his movie camera with him to capture all his exploits. McCain would have filmed his ‘cept the Hanoi Hilton exchange didn’t carry the right film.
darwin on May 20, 2008 at 7:15 PM
McCain. Weak in 1968. Weak in 2008.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Oh my goodness…..looks like a fresh case of BODS.
David in ATL on May 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM
None. But I also haven’t (i) given any statements to the North Vietnamese that were used against US servicepeople either, (ii) tried to take a bribe from Charles Keating, (iii) advocated amnesty for illegal aliens or (iv) worked to infringe the First Amendment rights of US citizens, so I’ll consider it a wash.
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Here try this and this.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Heh.
NTWR on May 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM
It will only be a difficult sell if the media does its job, which they won’t.
This will stick among the cultists, the party faithful and could potentially stick amongst late-deciders, depending on what level of media blackout there is on McCain’s service.
spmat on May 20, 2008 at 7:19 PM
M
You’ve also never been severely tortured in order to extract confessions out of you.
As for amnesty, etc., he’s been thoroughly thrashed for it here. But there’s a difference between attacking his military experiencing and attacking his political career.
amerpundit on May 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM
OK, don’t you see we’re all trying to forget about these things? It’s this guy or the Obammunist. This guy sucks but he’s not that guy. Everything McCain did would be exponentially multiplied in Barack’s world.
NTWR on May 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Buraq Obama may not have served in the military or been a POW, but I understand he had a pretty rough time of it living in Hawaii as a kid.
Cicero43 on May 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM
I smell a ronulan.
southsideironworks on May 20, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Alright people, do not respond to this road muffin. Just ignore and he loses his power to incite. Just saying….
cjs1943 on May 20, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Alright people, do not respond to this road muffin. Just ignore and he loses his power to incite. Just saying….
cjs1943 on May 20, 2008 at 7:23 PM
This guy is a complete TOOL:
He is a wannabe Lieberman, but with absolutely no testicular fortitude. For someone who served, which I thank, he is still a complete waste of carbon.
upinak on May 20, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Jim M obviously hasn’t a clue what kind of training our Special Forces soldiers go through as well as any other soldiers, such as McCain was, deep within enemy territory. One of their “lessons” is how to withstand torture. The first thing they are told is, “You will talk. We know this. You will be tortured to the point that no human with be able to withstand and you will say something. But, we will try to train you to, at the very least, withstand the torture long enough for us to get our units out of harms way before you spill the beans.” Our own military KNOWS this. To say that McCain was “weak” because he talked after the torture he went through, is beyond stupid.
Jim M is a complete moron who hasn’t got a clue.
Conservative_SAHM on May 20, 2008 at 7:24 PM
omg I hope Obama doesn’t pick Webb. I couldn’t stomach 4 months of hearing about little boys penises.
ctmom on May 20, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Bottom line is that McCain cracks under pressure. He did 40 years ago and has continued to do so.
Do any of you think that his “reaching across the aisle” to work out a deal on US Supreme Court justices, on the McCain–Feingold Act, on amnesty for illegals, on global warming and other things isn’t a continuation of cracking under pressure?
jim m on May 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM
My issues with McCain haven’t ever revolved around his military service. More than once, I’ve said that McCain’s service was honorable, and he showed great integrity while serving as a POW.
My issues with McCain are fundamental. I won’t vote for him because of those fundamental issue differences. McCain could be a medal of honor winning hero, and I wouldn’t vote for him because of that. There are a lot of people who served honorably, and even heroically. That may show them to be superior patriots, and I’ll give them a honest listen. IT doesn’t make them infallible or absolutely right all the time. It doesn’t make them qualified to be President.
Snake307 on May 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Really? How did he supposedly crack? Were you the one who was breaking that ankle? Where you torturing him?
If you weren’t there, then you really have nothing to say other then spew crap!
upinak on May 20, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Bottom line is he cracked under pressure after being
severely tortured. He then refused to meet with anti-war groups, gave misleading details to the Vietnamese, and was beaten for refusing to give additional statements.
No. Just like if he cracked under pressure, he wouldn’t still be supporting the unpopular war in Iraq. He’s come under attack for those positions and still stayed with them.
amerpundit on May 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM
From the party that brought us the “ChickenHawk” charge… Comes the “You are not hero enough” charge?
Hypocritical asshats.
darkpixel on May 20, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Don’t feed the monkey. He will move to another corner if you ignore him.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:34 PM
bayam:
McCain said that Huffpo’s crap about him not voting for Bush was nonsense. When asked why she would lie, his campaign said she was a poser and a flake. I would say that sounds a lot like you.
Terrye on May 20, 2008 at 7:37 PM
awwwww Geez
upinak on May 20, 2008 at 7:39 PM
I vote that we send ‘jim m’ to SERE School! I suspect he’ll see things differently afterwards.
I am aghast that someone could criticize a POW (or former POW) for signing a document while being tortured. He doesn’t even realize that members of the military are not forbidden from signing such documents.
blink on May 20, 2008 at 7:40 PM
I second this.
Conservative_SAHM on May 20, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Wow. Jack Kingston is about as safe as a congressman can be this fall, and for very good reason. He’s even safer now.
But the dems can trot out these tools all day. I hope they get some good prime time coverage too. You bet this is a coordinated thing, and some idiot dem pollster has told the DNC that this is a winning strategy.
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 7:45 PM
What’s worse then a tongue twister?…an organ grinder.
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 7:47 PM
I suspect jim m is another who would vomit at the thought of serving his country–much easier to denigrate those who did from the anonimity of the internet, conveniently forgetting who insures the “privilege” of doing so.
irongrampa on May 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Did you miss the numerous articles where McCain makes his opinions on those tactics very clear, leading to his decision to not vote for Bush in 2000?
Let me correct that- those attacks didn’t come from Bush, but from the “Bush campaign or affiliate organizations”.
bayam on May 20, 2008 at 7:03 PM
“Bush campaign or affiliate organizations”. [citation needed]
wise_man on May 20, 2008 at 7:50 PM
I went through SERE-C, as well. Any of you little boys and girls trashing Senator McCain and who think he took 23 joyrides in an A-4 over a hot zone and then enjoyed a walk in the park at the Hanoi Hilton, see if you can find any retired SERE instructors in your area, and have them give you a taste.
It’s been 25 years since I ran that course and it still sucks. The aircraft I flew was a lot slower target than his was, too.
The things we do for unappreciative civilians…
creekspecter on May 20, 2008 at 7:51 PM
If you are a democrat, yes.
wise_man on May 20, 2008 at 7:51 PM
That is quite possibly the most idiotic thing I have seen posted on HA. Everyone eventually cracks under such relentless toruture, the mandate for service members is to resist to the best of your ability.
Compared to your guy Obama I suppose? Cracked under the pressure of a racist preacher, never shuts up wife, and terrorist tea party friends.
Hog Wild on May 20, 2008 at 7:53 PM
lol
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 7:54 PM
“This message was brought to you by Sen John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.”
Weebork on May 20, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Why? All he would do is reverse roles and make everyone miserable.
upinak on May 20, 2008 at 7:55 PM
This guy survived the Forrestal fire and five years as the special guest of the Hanoi Hilton after refusing their offer of a ride home until they released his men. “Didn’t earn his way through his military career” my ass.
Sekhmet on May 20, 2008 at 7:55 PM
It is cute to see the Obama supporters show up to try to say that the problem with McCain is that he isn’t conservative enough…LOL yeah, because that Obamassiah is such a conservative, patriotic guy!
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Are these people out of their minds? The party base dislikes McCain, but attacks like this will only generate support for him. I say that this elitist line about John M will only serve to point Obama’s elitist pedigree. Let’s see, his father and grand father were navy men who risked their live defending this nation like John. Obama’s mommy was a hippy and his daddy was a deadbeat. Johnny Boys wife is a succesful business woman while Obama’s wife is a hate America Communist.
thekingtut on May 20, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Don’t forget the “heroic” Tom Harkin.
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 7:56 PM
“This message was brought to you by both Sen John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and the heroic Tom Harkin.”
Weebork on May 20, 2008 at 8:01 PM
You also do them for us, and there are more “us” then “them”.
And we appreciate and honor all that have served (well most all).
right2bright on May 20, 2008 at 8:03 PM
jim m, Hog Wild gives you the answer right there. The military is told that EVERYONE will crack under torture. Their job isn’t NOT to crack – it’s to resist.
But keep using your strategy. I’m sure this will never come out during the campaign.
blink on May 20, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Good point, upinak. We certainly don’t want jim m on our side!
blink on May 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Point taken.. LOL!
You all have a great night!
upinak on May 20, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Ah damn. Kingston is a really good man, but his constituents need to call him about this:
There is this in his favor:
http://kingston.house.gov/
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 8:10 PM
jim m, reminds me of a Shakespeare quote
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
I hate the “chickenhawk” meme, but if there is a place for it, it is here. Jim, have you been tortured? Do you understand the skill of torturers to strip a man to his soul?
What is your qualifications to judge McCain? Dislike his positions? Fine, I don’t like a lot of them. But don’t judge him in an area you have no place to judge. You are, at best, a fool.
billhedrick on May 20, 2008 at 8:14 PM
I am listening to Hillary gush over her “great friend” Ted Kennedy.
Hilts on May 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Why do y’all let trolls hijack the thread. A simple, “That’s really stupid, Jim M” should suffice. Then, we can get back to interesting stuff. Whacking trolls is a little bit of fun, but not that much.
Buford Gooch on May 20, 2008 at 8:27 PM
McCain is a “self-promoter” because he ran for the Senate? Because he’s now running for President?
Gee, I wonder if there’s anybody else who fits that description? Somebody who, with no real qualifications whatsoever, is travelling the country, insisting that he (and he alone) has the “judgment to lead” this nation.
What shameless hypocrisy these Democrats indulge in.
AZCoyote on May 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM
He did this in GEORGIA? What an idiot.
EJDolbow on May 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Representative Jim Marshall, Democrat of Georgia
Dirty self promoter, or true patriot? Is it just the (D) or (R) that matters?
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Sory I’m late to the party.
I have a favor to ask of you.
Could you wear a name badge on your shirt saying “jim m” for the rest of your life?
That way if we ever cross paths I could punch your face in.
fogw on May 20, 2008 at 8:43 PM
This guy fits right in with the rest of those flaming, lying liberal asses like Kerry and Harkin. The self promoting piece of crap couldn’t carry water for McCain and can kiss this old retired soldier’s butt.
rplat on May 20, 2008 at 8:45 PM
I think bayam has met his match with jim m. Time to kick it up a notch, bayam, for old time sake. Show these people what you are made of!
patrick neid on May 20, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Ya know, in my time in the Navy, I have served with several Admiral’s kids. They have it harder than anyone. John McCain had a more difficult naval career because of his legacy. After refusing special treatment because of his father, he was treated far more harshly. This assclown knows nothing about military service, like most Obama staffers.
Squid Shark on May 20, 2008 at 8:48 PM
If wives who hate their country are out of bounds, why is it the military service of a man who loves his country is fair game?
EJDolbow on May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Capt: I prefer to review history on this topic, its very illuminating.
In ‘92, even though George Bush Sr. NEVER talked about his WWII pilot experience, the Clinton campaign, knowning that their guy was a Dope-smoking Draft Dodger, went out of their way to denigrate Military service in general, especially the absolutely DETESTABLE James Carville.
Later on, the Traitors (that’s “Democrats” for those you who don’t know), in the ‘96 election, still feeling the vulnerability of the Draft Dodger Clinton, went out of their way to denigrate Bob Dole’s Purple Heart and shattered arm, courtesy of his service in WWII in Italy.
Traitor attack dogs (i.e. “Democrats”) actually said that Dole should’ve been Court Martialed for being “reckless”.
Read this Leftist attempt at deconstruction of Dole’s War Record, because he was running against the Draft Dodger, Clinton: http://www.tedellis.net/dole-article.htm
Now you know what, I don’t know the real truth about Bob Dole’s war record; I’ve read people who’ve said he was a Hero, and that he got what he deserved by earning Medals. And I’ve read his political opponents trying to denigrate his record, usually based upon obviously biased sources and people who wish him well.
Regardless, the pattern is clear, Dole’s “war record” is BAD, and a LIE, and no good, and shouldn’t count.
Fast forward to 2004, Bush vs. Kerry. Of course, there was the totally bogus attempt to paint Bush as a “draft dodger” and a “deserter”, which Bush, in his typical fashion, actually assisted because he refused to stand up for himself, and get pissed up, for being branded that way.
Having served in the Military myself, and knowning how the Guard worked, I loved this attack on the President by the Traitor party, they literally had NO clue how the Guard worked, and their charges against President Bush were groundless and bogus, a point that Byron York proves beyond a doubt in this oustanding deconstruction of the Leftist line of attack: http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/york200408261025.asp
In the meantime however, it has been demonstrably PROVEN that John Kerry faked at least two of his Purple Hearts, and in no way earned a Silver Star nor a Bronze Star, he was a relentless self-promoter, and he “gamed” the sysem; saw it dozens of times unfortunately, when I was Active Duty, and it was particually easy for Officers to do, especially Navy Officers, and especially ones that had “connections” such as Kerry.
But that is neither here nor there; the point is, the Traitor Party, because they thought that Military service “counted” all the sudden with Kerry, suddenly went out of their way to argue that Military service was a GOOD thing; the complete opposite of what they argued 4 & 8 years earlier, when the Draft Dodger was running.
Now, suddenly fast forward 4 more years, to Obama vs. McCain, and they can’t attack McCain AT ALL, like they did Bush, so suddenly, military service is a “bad” thing, not honorable and McCain’s service is flawed, he’s didn’t deserve what he earned, he was “isolated” and all that other crap.
The bottomline, Democrats are TRAITORS, the not only HATE the Military, they hate this country, and they’ll do anything, say anything, and sink to any low, in order to gain political power.
They’re disgusting, and I despise them; they’ve earned the title of the “Traitor Party”, and ANY person who has EVER servered in the Military, who supports this disgusting traitor party, needs their heads examined!
Dale in Atlanta on May 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM
I propose we take up a collection here at HotAir, and we promise to give any monies collected to democratic candidates who will commit to keep repeating the stories about how military families produce inferior leaders, and how McCain was pampered during his military tenure. If we can convince several candidates to do this, it would cost the dems 5 or 6 house seats this fall. Has nobody on their side learned the first rule of holes?
Think_b4_speaking on May 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM
LEAVE THE FRICKIN TROLLS ALONE!
They won’t go away, like a bad rash…but you don’t need to feed the vermin. Grow a set and STFU!
shooter on May 20, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Very nice. But I would say that Jim Marshall is an exception to your rule. There are a (very) few patriotic dems….VERY few.
funky chicken on May 20, 2008 at 9:45 PM
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