Posted: January 15, 2008 9:11 PM
In S.C., McCain Hit with Ad Attacking His Military Service
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While results come in Tuesday evening from Michigan’s Republican primary, Arizona Sen. John McCain will be watching from South Carolina. McCain left Michigan on Tuesday afternoon to get a head start on a final push in the Palmetto State, which holds its primary on Saturday.
Greeting McCain in South Carolina is a new attack ad targeting his military service in Vietnam. A group called “Vietnam Veterans Against McCain” is behind the mailer, which was sent to voters across the state. The ad shows a cartoon drawing of McCain, a former Vietnam POW, sitting in a North Vietnamese prison with writing on the walls. “Elect Me, elect me, elect me, POW for President,” reads one of the scrawls in the drawing.
The front of the mailer can be viewed here and the back here.
McCain’s campaign put out a statement written by Orson Swindle, a fellow POW in Vietnam with McCain.
“Today, a shadowy political organization calling itself ‘Vietnam Veterans Against McCain’ launched a vicious attack on John McCain in an attempt to impugn his character in the closing days of the South Carolina Republican Primary,” Swindle said in the statement. “The group claims that John McCain turned his back on his fellow POWs in order to save his own skin. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know because I was there. The truth is, the North Vietnamese offered John McCain early release, and he refused.”
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The act of utter cowards.
I followed the web address written on the pamplet referenced by your article attacking McCain's POW record. These same people are attacking Obama over his supposed ties to Islam and liberation theology. They accuse John Karrie of many of the same things they accuse McCain. Google USVETERANDispatch.com and follow the trail of websight references. When you take it all in, these people come accross to me as not being very credible.
Smells like a Romney.
They have no honor. These shadowy "veterans" bring shame to the uniform that McCain, I and countless others felt privileged to wear.
Regardless of the veracity of the info in the mailer, the the entire matter is distasteful and shows the nastiness of some of our populace. Unless they get what they want, they resort to cheap class-less acts like this. I am not a McCain supporter but I respect his past enough to disagree with his politics and not his charcter.
Shame on these folks.
Its about time this happened. McCain's military record is a shambles. At Annapolis he was a drunken skirt chaser whose demerit record still stands. His acedemic record was aweful too. Prior to Nam he continued his drunken skirt chasing. OK he got knocked out of the sky by a SAM and spent time in a POW camp. But when he returned he started up his drunken skirt chasing ways which resulted in a divorce. He tied up with a rich woman wrapped himself in a flag and became a politican. Just what are his accomplishments as a Senator? He looks a lot like G W Bush and how many Americans want a repeat of the last four years.
Maybe what we need is a skirt chaser in the white house?
Do military records actually matter in this day and age?
I think it is time for a "straight talker" in the white house.
And besides, the skirt chaser has a gorgeous daughter that I hope spends alot of time in DC in the future.
Eric
"Straight Talk", come on McCain is an obfuscator, is duplicious, and is an outright liar. Look at his babble about the surge. The "Straight Talk" is that we have bought off the Sunni insurgents; we pay 70,000 sunni insurgents 300$ per month. That is 21,000,000$ per month or 252,000,000$ per year. How long are we going to pay them off with the bakish, eh? What do you think those 70,000 sunni are going to do when the bucks stop flowing? To what use will the weapons and munitions that we have given then be made? This self proclaimed "Straight Talker" this is a liar that will spin and jive better than the rest of them. He has suckered you in Eric, and all it took was a good looking daughter.
Al,
I can't help it. I'm a sucker for good looking women.
I have no idea what the remainder of your post is about. "duplicious" is not in my scrabble dictionary.
leftout the t, duplicitous - deceitful.
I understood your point, I don't understand the purpose of your failed attempt at using "SAT" words. Liar was sufficient.
As someone who has many friends involved in the "surge" I must say that it is unfortunate that our American brothers and sisters were forced back into the Middle East. However, they did choose their jobs, as most American's do in today's society. It is estimated that the Surge has saved many American lives, because of course, we can't simply withdraw.
Paying Sunni's; someone has to help Iraq fund an army so that the USA can leave.
Why can we not leave, because McCain says so? We can leave any time we want to. We owe these the Iraqis absolutely nothing. There reason we are there is that they will not take responsibility for theil lives and country. The soon we leave the sooner they will standup and start acting like human beings in order to survive. McCain is trying to peddle the Viet Nam crock that there will be a domino effect if we leave. No dominos fell after we lfht the Nam and none will fall if we leave Iraq We have become the Baathist party and 'w" is Saddam. McCain wants to become Saddam after "w" slinks out of office. I will vote for a candidate that will get us out fast.