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AMERICAblog: Romney AGAIN invokes McCain's POW status, calls him "homeless for five years"

  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    1) McSAME just sounds more and more rediculous everytime he makes this connection. (where is SNL?)

    2) If you are under 50 years old, you were a kid during Vietnam, no one cares, and gas prices are still high, so this is only appealing to his base.

    3) I hope McSAME makes this the center piece of his campaign so Biden can Tear it apart.

    4) I think you will see a tidal shift in the polls to Obama after the first debate.
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    Ummmmmm....didn't he have a home with his first wife at the time???? He was just on vacation. Don't say these things about him--HE WAS A POW!!!!
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    it would seem close to impossible to turn a POW experience into a joke. but we're well on our way. you'll know when Leno uses it in his monologue.
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  • Will_In_Midtown · 1 year ago
    remember jack kemp, and how he always did the action "i am pretending to throw a football" pose. i thought it was absurd from day one, but towards the end of the failed campaign i came to realize that was all he had.

    mccaain's invoking his pow experience so randomly too is absurd. but i am more quickly realizing that it is the only thing he brings to the table.

    last night, one of the speakers so tactfully addressed mccains advanced age! he said something to the effect: it does not matter how much time you have spent in the senate, or on the earth. it was so subtle that it took a few seconds for the audience to pick it up. but they really loved it!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    so Mitt says it's the politics of envy to point out how many houses McBush has.
    but then he says, he himself has four houses. One less than John Kerry.

    right.
    both parties have rich guys. the difference is our rich guys care about the rest of us. GOPer rich guys want to hog it all for themselves and their cronies and if they have to start wars and destroy the planet to do that, so what?
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    is there anything about mtt romney that we would ever envy?
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    ummmm. his hair stays perfectly in place? mine never does.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    the magic underpants. I really want a pair, but can't bring myself to drink the kool-aid in the Mormon trough.
  • BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago
    I'm pretty sure John McCain voted to make sure that sleep deprivation, disjointing of limbs, stress positions and "homelessness" isn't torture. Not sure what he's trying to milk this bull for. Oh Wait! Laura said W has milked a few bulls!
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Mccain's going to regift his POWness in every question in the debate
  • TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago
    He's doing a grave disservice to every former POW who has a legitimate issue resulting from being a POW. He's shameful.
  • itsbits · 1 year ago
    We all know McCain is 72 and that he spent 5 years in captivity. Doesn't 5 years without a house age a person more quickly. We know he suffered and he can't raise his arms to comb his hair. But that's only what is visible on the outside. I would imagine 5 years in captivity would add at least 5 years to his age, maybe 10. Is John McCain running as a 72 year old or as an 82 year old. Where is Dr. Oz when you need him?
  • lark83 · 1 year ago
    You're right. The POW I served with said that at age 50 he had the bones of a 70 year old. That means that McCain has the bones of a 90 year old. Who knows what else is wrong with him.

    Besides the physical abuse, their diet was really bad. The guy I knew at one point went 212 days with nothing to eat except pumpkin soup.
  • ClintonHater · 1 year ago
    "I'm just very curious if the voters aren't going to find it strange that the McCain campaign and their surrogates, every day now, keep using John McCain's POW experience as an excuse to deflect any and all criticism. "

    Probably not John. Which kind of sucks for us. It is something we are going to have to deal with for the rest of the campaign.

    And there is nothing laudable about his experience. He produced propaganda for our enemies, and he put himself in that position in the first place because he was such a poor pilot (he crashed his plane 4 other times)
  • lark83 · 1 year ago
    You're dead wrong. You sound like one of those "I hate America" leftists that Ann Coulter always pretends is a typical democrat.
  • ClintonHater · 1 year ago
    Actually I can assure you I love America more than you... you dip shet. Just because I criticize McCain's history of being a poor soldier, does not make me un-American. It makes you stupid.
  • lark83 · 1 year ago
    Ignorant and immature comment.
  • ClintonHater · 1 year ago
    Wow that hurt. What a scathing retort. Go F' off.
  • seohio · 1 year ago
    In my village in SE Ohio there is a man who was held as a POW by the Japanese during WWII. He serves on my city council, and he didn't campaign utilizing his status. When he is wrong on something, he admits it and apologizes.

    John McCain could learn a lot from Mr. Collins.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    I repeat: mcshame is NO HERO! How many lives did he save? What exactly were his heroic accomplishments? He was nothing but a poor pilot who got himself shot down. Why, why, why, does everyone, Democrats included, have to keep saying mcshame suffered for 5 years in a prison camp? mcshame is a hero? The people we should really be mad at are the ones who pulled him out of that lake! Sorry if this seems harsh but I am sick of people coddling mcshame for something of his own doing and using it to defend everything he says and does.
  • Apphouse50 · 1 year ago
    Since being a POW seems to be the new sine qua non of presidential chops, and since being a HOMELESS POW is somehow even better, well damn, there are scads of homeless veterans, some of whom were POWs, who qualify as well. Why weren't they candidates for the Rethug nomination, too? Why has the GOP ignored their plight when they are apparently the Repug farm team?

    Sheesh. It's all so confusing.
  • MoonDragon · 1 year ago
    It's not the envy card, it's the clueless card. But that's being mean to a POW.
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    Im not up to snuff on all of the terrorism/torture defintions at the federal level. Has McSame ever voted to redefine acts of torture as something less??? This would be a key point to make if there is any evidence.
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    Actually, I seem to remember the POW McSame voting against a measure to BAN torture. Whey has this not come up????? THERE's the comeback!!!
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    we dems have short memories...someone needs to get on this...
  • MrJJ · 1 year ago
    http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/689

    snip

    But there’s more: Romney’s real estate portfolio apparently puts to shame even McCain’s eight properties. According to the ex-gov’s financial disclosure forms filed when he was running for president, Romney holds an interest in 51 different properties through the Whitehall Real Estate Funds. These holdings include apartments in New York, hotels in Italy and Canada, and land in Thailand and France.
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    if tables were turned, swiftboaters would dig up some other POW to say that McCain was eating steak and eggs for breakfast while the other prisoners were being waterboarded. And how this other POW doesn't even have one house, let alone 7 or 12.
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    ummm this is as close as we have for now
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articl...
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    WOW! that's a mouthful! Thanks for the link.
  • lark83 · 1 year ago
    Phillip Butler is in no way a "swiftboat" guy, or the closest thing we have to one. Swiftboaters are liars and Butler is a genuine guy.

    You'll notice that Butler doesn't denigrate McCain's service as a POW in the slightest. He just says he doesn't think McCain would be a very good president.
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    ALSO, I'm thinking that we need to get some PTSD Iraq vets on TV to explain how being a soldier in a war zone changes a person. And THEN, "just imagine what being a prisoner for five years does to a person's mental stability". Turn the beat around, dammit!!! This is not rocket science.
  • boo12 · 1 year ago
    McCain wasn't homeless, he just wasn't at home. His wife and kids were at home waiting for him but when he got back, he left them for Cindi.
  • caphillprof · 1 year ago
    I have trouble with this notion: I was a POW, thus I should be president. How does having been a POW excuse a lack of compassion for your fellow citizens? How does it give you any foreign policy experience or expertize. I was a POW, thus I should conduct foreign policy. How can even died in the wool Republicans drink this Kool Aid?
  • benb · 1 year ago
    McCain dumped his wife and married into money. He's never worked a day in the private sector. Where are the risks he took for the rewards he enjoys? There aren't any. McCain 's not rich because of an honest day's work. Mitt, what we're feeling isn't envy.


    "[Mitt] saw the criticism as "the politics of jealousy or envy or a sense that somehow we're going to be less likely to vote for someone because they've achieved economic success."
  • woodroad34 · 1 year ago
    It's called gold digging...isn't that "work"? Prospectors did it back in the day...I'm sure McStain will remember that.
  • PrahaPartizan · 1 year ago
    So, Johnny McSame wants to use his POW status as a general safe pass, hmmm? Fine. Let's start to talk about how extreme deprivation like he suffered ages a person. What's the normal aging equivalent for a year spent under the extreme physical, psychological and emotional stress he suffered? Is the ratio 3:1, 5:1, or maybe even 7:1? We know that it's not 1:1.

    The issue is that Johnny McSame doesn't turn 72 years of age tomorrow. Oh, he celebrates the 72nd anniversary of his birth. No, the real issue is "Just how really old is poor, sad John McCain because of all of those years he spent as a POW under the Vietnamese?" As we've seen recently, he doesn't act like a 72-year old person. He acts more like he really is -- 80 to 85 years of age. Can we afford to have someone that enfeebled actually sitting in the oval office at the start of their term. We saw what happened when someone left office at that age. Just how much do the Publicans hate America to hang this albatrross around the nation's neck?

    Just how many years under the extreme POW
  • bunnyjump · 1 year ago
    Isn't it one of the first signs of Alzheimer's to relive the past?
    Maybe Grampy thinks he's in 'Nam.
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    What this is going to take is hitting McSame on the local level. I would suggest to start emailing story ideas about his POW lies, divorce, etc to local stations/news orgs to get them involved. Something will eventually take. It has to spark somewhere and we might as well start it. The strongest thing we have is our ability to act as a grassroots movement--email local churches about McCains infidelities...it might just make them sit it out.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    I wouldn't trust him in a car near any farmer's market in America.
  • hippie1367 · 1 year ago
    Obviously the Mittster has never seen McCains "Tigercage Sweet Tigercage" needlepoints.
  • JMOHR · 1 year ago
    There is one effective means of dealing with the POW issue. You need to egg him on to use it more and more. We know that he uses it for Veteran's issues, his homes, economic issues impacting families and military issues. We need sharp attacks on his understanding and positions on these issues - YES, NEGATIVE ADS WITH A NEW ONE EVERY DAY.

    He will not confront the issues. He and his campaign will turn him into a cartoon character.
  • ponchoinparadise · 1 year ago
    So how how many Americans have become Homeless Heroes over
    the years due to the legacies and and corporate trade policies of President
    Reagan, Bush Uno, Bush Dos and yes, Clinton.
    Thirty eight years of screwing
    So every time you have to step over some one sleeping on a heating vent
    just stop to tell how much you admire their patriotism and throw a little spare
    change into their Campaign Finance Cup.

    There should be a poster of a homeless man sleep on the street,
    Above the picture it should say JOHN McCAIN
    and below the picture it should sat HOMELESS AMERICAN HERO
  • DISISME · 1 year ago
    Homeless for 5 years and hasn't had a clue since. Duzzit sound like a Chimpy 'n Chinny sidekick? Oh wait, they were kicked in the haid. His POW status is in Washington Post, June 1965. Sang like a songbird.
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    "Don't you dare tell McCain he put to much mayo on his turkey club sandwich. Don't you know he was a POW? The VC didn't hand out Hellman's at chow time!" Maybe we're gonna hear soon how after drawing that cross in the dirt, the VC soldier handed McCain an economics textbook and that's why he's qualified to fix the economy.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • Hannah · 1 year ago
    Forty years ago, when I was in high school, I was a hospital volunteer. I suppose that means I am now qualified to run a hospital. Do you suppose I could put that on my application for hospital administrator (even though I don't have a business degree or any other qualifications) and get hired? Or would I get laughed out of the building?
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    I've been homeless everyday for about 1/2 hour on my way to work every morning and again on the way home.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    What a prick Mitt is. He has insulted people that really are homeless and having problems getting back on their feet. Shame on him. I hope he is going to be his VP. I can see a lot of ads showing Mitty swinging from left to right on a lot of issues.
  • woodroad34 · 1 year ago
    McCain wasn't homeless...He lived in a Hilton! Shoulda stayed there as far as I'm concerned.