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As for the POW thing, I recommend http://www.unfitmccain.com/
Daddy wrote the daughter from the earlier marriage totally out of the will--when he died in 2000, I hear that Cindy inherited the whole keg of beer--her half-sister got nothing & lives modestly in AZ.
I heard more recently that Daddy Hensley fathered an earlier child before his first marriage.
Who are these people?
Also, for him to have anything to do with Bush (yeah, it's the money, I know), who would have been drafted (#189) & shipped off as a grunt if he hadn't had strings pulled to get him into the TXANG, and who went AWOL--that is the mark of a person with some really bad values.
WANT MORE PAIN ????????VOTE McSAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
will he use the taxpayer's money to take a motorcade to pick up coffee.
will the taxpayers be required to provide secret serve presence at all his homes.
we are already spending $150,000.00 per minute to continue his war.
mccan't
Here is an example: Biden said, "The American Dream Is Slipping Away Under Eight Years Of Bush And McCain." A clear thought and straight out point of view. McCain and the GOP will not answer this challenge. Instead, McCain and the GOP will try to change the subject with a reply like this, "Hey, did you guys see that? Biden did not wear a flag pin!"
That is what is so crazy about this press coverage. Isn't it about time we as the voting publc start challenging the GOP, McCain, Bush, Cheney. Rove, etc. on the issues? Make McCain and the GOP explain their policies and their past mistakes?
Just another example, "I was a Pow, how dare you ask about my corruption in government!"
Wanna trade sob stories? I had a crappy childhood - my dad had cancer, we lost our house, I had a debilitating illness for many years, etc. Am I allowed to use my story as a way to shield myself from my mistakes and responsibilities? As a matter of fact, can I put all that on my resume and assume that every potential employer will considered me qualified on that basis alone?. Sorry Johnny boy, we all sympathize with what happened to you in Vietnam, but ALL of us have had shitty things happen to us as well. Stop pretending that you have a monopoly on suffering because you don't. We need a president, not someone who's going to call Putin and ask him to stop doing bad things because its not fair to you and your POW past. Just a reminder John, you're looking for our votes, NOT our pity.
Maybe I can use the I'm a black woman excuse if I ever decide to car jack someone.
As I screech away in my stolen car I just scream "How dare you question me! I am a victim of racism!"
But the corporate media will do all they can to help the Repugs deflect. Hopefully, K.O. and, in two weeks, Rachel Maddow, will be able to blow a hole in those smoked glassed mirrors.
Yep, by boot-legging.
And W's granddaddy sold arms to Hitler.
Why is it that dishonest people are the ones getting rich?
Capital trumps all.
The Bush/Walker family has been in the business of funding & profiteering @ the expense of regular civilians for close to a century.
A truly honorable former POW would never use that fact as a bludgeon to get his way or an excuse for anything.
It's becoming sickening.
I know several REAL heroes of war from the Viet Nam era. None of them EVER speaks of the war. None of them could ever speak of what they did in Viet Nam. Real heroes are like that.
McCain is no hero. He's a schmuck who had some bad luck. Such men never tire of trying to make people conform to their desires by using the "hero" card. Such men destroy all that is good and truly deserving of our admiration.
I spent 10 years without an ottoman.
Now can I have a rich young blonde buy my political career?
(P.S. And I can probably make do with just 5 houses, please.)
My friends, I didn’t have the luxury of milk for five and a half years…in prison. My friends, milk is for pussies.
Were not doing enough to find alternative sources of energy
My friends, I lived in the dark for five and a half years -- in prison, with no light bulbs….my friends. Alternative energy is for pussies. Iran owns oil, my friends; and in six months, I’ll own Iran…….my friends.
Healthcare is too expensive
My friends, I didn’t have healthcare in my prison for five and a half years. Healthcare is for pussies, my friends.
The inner cities are suffering
My friends, I know about suffering. I suffered for five and half years, my friends. You’ve suffered for eight years under bush. If you can’t suffer for four more under me, you’re a bunch of pussies, my friends.
We aren’t well prepared for natural disasters
My friends, let me tell you a thing or two about disaster. I’m still paying off the school loans for my first family. Cindy won’t help. And I couldn’t save any money for five and half years while I suffered for you, my friends. If you can’t pick yourself after a flood or a hurricane….you a pussy, my friends.
War on terror
My friends, Ive been in a war. I know how to terrorize. I took an advance class in it for five and half years as a POW. If you survive my administration, you ain’t no pussy.
War on drugs
My friends, I only wish I had access to drugs in that hell hole I lived in for five and half years. People who use drugs are pussies. People who sell drugs are capitalists. I do not support using drugs, my friends.
Prisons are overcrowded
My friends, let me give you some straight talk about prisons. I spent five an half years in a prison. Prisoners today are pussies.
Economy is in a recession
My friends, I didn’t get a single check for five and half years. And yet, I survived, my friends…and so will you, my friends. ‘Cause if you don’t….you’re a pussy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24dow...
(i'm beginning to get extremely concerned that Senator McCain is sinking what slim chance he had at the presidency with this unseemly reliance on his POW status! /concern snark)
they bow down before shirkers like bush and cheney...
and they allow McCain to get away with voting down needed funds for other wounded vets, all because he was a GOPer POW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hensley
That's a start.
Or is this verse yet another one that has been "misinterpreted" and rewritten by the right-wing "Christians?"
One more question: If his second father-in-law came back from WWII, practically penniless, and made it BIG, how did he do it? All by himself? Or did he get the GI Bill to go to college? If so, why is McCain so dead set against it now?
he Post also added, almost discretely, that Mrs. McCain’s wealth “may” exceed $100 million (although most sources estimate it is worth $200 million or more) and—for the record—that “she was the apple of her father’s eye.”
The Post did not mention that Mrs. McCain’s father was a highly-placed fixture in the Arizona branch of the national organized crime syndicate: He was the chief henchman of the late Kemper Marley, Arizona point man for infamous mob chief Meyer Lansky and his powerful partners-in-crime, the super-rich Bronfman family of Montreal.
In that capacity—for 40 years until his death in 1990—Marley was undisputed political boss of Arizona, acting as the behind-the-scenes power over both the Republican and Democratic parties.
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?...
James Hensley was well known as one of Arizona's richest men and kept much of his business dealings secret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hensley
Now that John has opened the door someone should pursue some investigative journalism and find out a little more. So everyone who ever served in the armed forces gets a pass on anything them may do because they served. That explains McCain's interest in a draft that way every American will have served will not be responsible for any crimes or misdemeanors they committ.
ummmm I have never wanted to marry a rich white woman....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodmlmxpZeQ