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>

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