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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Swift Boating McCain? Monday, June 30, 2008 Swift Boating McCain? I've not had much time to follow political news, or anything else but Diablo III since the big announcement late Friday night (California time). But when I hit Yahoo news this afternoon, between running some errands and looking up the location of the UPS store in downtown San Rafael, I thought this was absurd enough that it required comment. Retired 4-star US Army General Wesley Clark (who I thought was a good choice for the democratic presidential candidate in 2004, for reasons I no longer recall) was on some weekend political talk show, and when questioned, pointed out something fairly obvious. That John McCain's main claim to military fame, that his plane was shot down and he was imprisoned (and very cruelly-treated) by the Viet Cong for the duration of the Vietnam War, doesn't necessarily qualify him to be president of the US. If you live outside of the US, you probably wonder how this is even remotely controversial. Clark has vastly greater military credentials than McCain, presumably knows quite a bit about the intellectual and leadership qualities of your average Navy flyboy, was very careful in his comments to honor McCain's service and bravery in captivity, and said nothing against the value of anyone's military service. He just pointed out that getting shot down in a fighter plane and captured by the Vietnamese army isn't an experience that exactly translates into presidential experience. His remarks have become big news in large part because the mainstream media in the US is happy to misrepresent anything for ratings, is entirely cowed by and fearful of saying anything that might remotely be construed as anti-military (especially in a time of war, such as um... ever), and because that same media harbors an enormous man-crush on John McCain. And, of course, because right wingers who support McCain (largely by default, since the hardcore 25%er base liked all the other Republican candidates better than the pseudo-independent McCain) have gone insane over the issue, since they live to 1) support Republicans, 2) attack the patriotism of Democrats, and 3) support the military (in every way but by actually, you know, paying the soldiers more or giving them better support post service). The real irony is that the only prominent people attacking John McCain's military service are... right wingers. There's a substantial fringe faction (including Republican ex-congressmen) who thinks he's literally a Manchurian Candidate. That he was brainwashed and "turned" by communist Chinese operatives during his lengthy captivity, that he made numerous anti-American propaganda tapes while in captivity, that he covered it up through his powerful position as a senator on the military affairs subcommittee, that he abandoned his fellow P.O.W.'s by opposing programs that would have searched for prisoners still held after America lost the Vietnam war, that he's currently under the control of the Chinese government, and that President McCain would be (almost) as bad for America as the secretly-Muslim, whitey-hating, possibly-atheistic African impostor he's competing against for the job. Yes, this is the sort of thing that dominates political discourse in America. How else do you think we ended up with two terms of George Bush Jr.? Debating the issues? Labels: military, politics Posted by: Flux # 6:18 PM Comments: Actually, another pilot on the mission with McCain came out with the fact that McCain ditched his plain with the other pilots on board. He broke his arm during the ejection, not at the POW camp. He is also known as the song bird, since he sold out US plans for his safety. Google McCain Songbird. #: 6:15 AM posted by Anonymous I think it was hilarious that the Republicans tried to get some mileage out of Harry Reid saying "Oil Makes Us Sick." That is a statement of fact! If we were on nuclear power/renewable energy we could wash our hands of the middle east. Anyway, Obama strikes me as an idiot who is running on rainbows and balloons. Give us something concrete otherwise McCain will win! #: 11:53 PM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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