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Those ex-POW Perks

By Christopher Williams - August 21, 2008, 4:50PM

It must be good to be an ex-POW. Indeed, all because John McCain was a POW,

he cannot tell a lie,

it is proof enough that he did not cheat at that Evangelical forum,

General Wesley Clark cannot reasonably question his qualifications to be CIC,

it's ok if he has an affair,

he was able to become, that's right, a celebrity-hero and a Senator,

he gets to run a dishonorable campaign,

he got to marry the ultimate golddigger's dream wife,

he is entitled to have her buy him four (or is it seven or ten) homes,

he gets to call her anything in public, even a trollop or a ...

he gets her to buy him $520 shoes while he calls others elitists,

he knows how to win wars,

he gets special media treatment,

and he even gets to admit he did not love America until he became, you guessed it, a POW.

So indeed it is good to be a John McCain, although he will never play that POW card.

"I kind of reacted the way I did because I have a reluctance to talk about my experiences," he said, noting that he has huge admiration for the "heroes" who served with him in the POW camp and said the experience taught him to love the U.S. because he missed it so much.

"I am always reluctant to talk about these things," McCain said.

Comments (11)

BTW, if I have overlooked or excluded any other perks to being ex-POW John McCain, please drop a reminder in the comments section.

Posted by AdAbsurdum
August 21, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink

Excellent post.

Posted by readytoblowagasket
August 21, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink

Great list. Rec'd.
You might add?
Even the temper he had in prep school, when he was known as McNasty, is illogically explained away by his POW trauma, which occurred many years later. POW -- past and present and always.

Posted by wwstaebler
August 21, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink

Even the temper he had in prep school, when he was known as McNasty, is illogically explained away by his POW trauma, which occurred many years later. POW -- past and present and always.

Not illogical at all.

It just proves what great foresight McCain has ;)

Posted by Constantinople
August 22, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink

Gets to tell vile, misogynist jokes and no one calls him on it

Gets to act presidential before he’s President

Does not need to understand the economy

Gets to call the other guy elitist while sticking his $500 shoe in his mouth

Can question and demean anyone’s patriotism as much as he wants

Can threaten any country he wants, even the one with as many nukes as we have

Allows him and only him to see every issue as the transcendent issue of our time

Posted by emcnamara
August 21, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink