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McCain Campaign List of Rebuttals involving POW Past (A noun, a verb, a POW)

As anyone who has been following the Presidential race knows, the McCain Campaign has sunk to heretofore unseen levels of absurdity by rebutting every criticism against them with McCain's POW past as though it was some kind of Jedi mind trick that renders them invulnerable. 

 

The truth is, as has been pointed out repeatedly on TPM, it actually cheapens his heroic experience to the point that it becomes a nothing more than a blunt instrument with which to dispatch his opponents (a point his own campaign advisors made). 

 

I'd like to recruit the help of TPM's dedicated readers to list any and all attempts to use his POW past as a weapon in the hope that he’ll finally stop embarrassing himself – it’s been 26 years after all.  I'll get the ball rolling with the two latest (please include the quote, context and link):


1.  Confronted with McCain’s inability to recall the number of houses the own (between 7-11):  "This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison" .
<a href=" http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/mccain_spokesmans_retort_obama.html"> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/mccain_spokesmans_retort_obama.html</a>

2.  Asked if McCain received questions prior to Warren interview while outside “Cone of Silence” during Obama’s turn:  “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.
<a href=" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/us/politics/18mccain.html?ref=politics"> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/us/politics/18mccain.html?ref=politics</a>


Comments (5)

Apologies for the mess, the link system wasn't working for some reason. Don't let it deter you from either taking up the cause yourself or adding to the list! Thanks, Rob.

Someone on Kos has already listed 20, but without links.

However, that list of 20 includes cases where McCain could have used POW as an excuse or "get out of gaffe free" card. I'm more interested in a list of cases in which it has actually been used, like Mr. Thompson here seems to be going for.

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The troops today have 'real' duty as soldiers. McCain sat on his ass in aircraft and bombed, until he was hit. The troops on the ground in any war have a life and death situation constantly, not like this idiot McCain. 5 yrs was a soft 5 yrs. He injured his arms and legs in the fall from the aircraft, not from torture as McCain states. This is a nonsense man, never having responsibility for anything in his life. This elitist is angry, callous, arrogant and frankly a baby. He wouldn't know what honor was if he was smacked with it.

mrwao8,
This was my opinion of some of his POW experience, too.

Having said that, though, I still wouldn't have wanted to live at the Hanoi Hilton even without "enhanced interrogation."

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