McCain camp calls on Obama to denounce 'smear'

CNN ^ | 4/08/08 | CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

John McCain's campaign called on Barack Obama Tuesday to condemn a comment from one of his Senate supporters that the presumptive Republican nominee, a naval aviator during the Vietnam War, "was a fighter pilot who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit."

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It gets worse. Rockefeller went around the bend.

[napscoordinator]

Senator Lindsey Graham was just on Foxnews and they mentioned that Obama denounced the statements. There is something weird going on with McCain and Obama...can’t put my finger on it, but something is there...lol.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

And McCain did it with laser weaponry, if you please! In the sixties. McCain should have an anger issue on that ash hole. Cross the aisle and sock him in the mouth for starters.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

did you know the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were both launched from a secret base in the aleutians and were laser guided all the way?? the airplane supposedly used just flew circles around saipan until it was time to land..everyone knows that../s

[RC2]

And the Trilateral Commission says......?????????

[Truth is a Weapon]

I may not be as techno savy as Senator Rockefeller but I don’t believe we had laser guided bombs during the Vietnam war. In fact the Vietnam War was before personal computers, laser printers and cell phones. Hell, even Xerox machines were rare even if they existed then.

[y6162]

Didn’t Rockefeller have a brain tumor or something?

McCain was shot down...hello?

[avacado]

"There is something weird going on with McCain and Obama...can’t put my finger on it, but something is there..."

Obama fears debates in the general election so when McCain tells him to do something now... he does it. McCain is turning Obama into his little lap dog.

[tioga]

liberal senility is ugly

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Laser guided bombs were developed in the early 1970s, several years after McCain checked into the Hanoi Hilton.

[Enchante]

Rockefeller is PURE SCUM. The very reason that John McCain and so many other US pilots were shot down over North Vietnam is that they took enormous risks to attack targets from much closer range than would have been necessary if we just wanted to obliterate everything in the area from 35,000 feet. When it came to many many targets in and around populated areas in North Vietnam, A-4 and other pilots took huge risks (and many died or were imprisoned & tortured).

Rockefeller is so friggin’ ignorant that he does not have the slightest idea of what an A-4 was or how it was used in the Vietnam War. Rockefeller’s complete ignorance and vicious depravity must be fully exposed!!!

[laconic]

I believe the rich, privileged and pamp’red Mr. Rockefeller served in some dangerous outfit such as the Peace Corps during the Vietnam War.

[magslinger]

Cross the aisle and sock him in the mouth for starters.

Considering his injuries sustained while in NV hands, I suggest a designated hitter.

I'm not a McCain fan, but this is a Navair matter.

[Tex Pete]

Man, reading the comments at that blog reminds me of what CNN viewer are like. What a bunch of commies.

[BGHater]

The Paveway series was used in Vietnam in 1968 and beyond.

[HamiltonJay]

There are some powerful people behind the scenes pulling strings for fauxbama... he’s a nobody who’s done nothing, yet every time he’s faced a challege, powers that be make sure that challenge goes away, no matter what laws need to be broken for it to happen.

Fauxbama is the puppet of someone(s) that are very powerful... and no I’m not talking about the Daley machine.. these guys are way bigger than that.

[Candor7]

There is something weird going on with McCain and Obama...can’t put my finger on it, but something is there...lol.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Its real simple; Obama knows McCain has the goods on him ( Especially on Obamas backroom support of Luo/Odinga genocide in Kenya), and if Obama does not conduct a campaign in which he genuflects to King McCain, then McCain will mop the floor with Obama.

This will become a defining campaign between Utopian liberals who are out to create their own la la land reality,and Republicans who are no longer conservatives.It will be a very dirty campaign.

The question is which one of these men will be least disasterous for America? No way to tell until we see their running mates?

[smartin]

Excellent!

[JZelle]

Oh come on, it isn’t like they called him a monkey!

[HawaiianGecko]

 http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=36996

 Rockefeller Apologizes To McCain
Posted Tuesday, April 8, 2008 ; 02:46 PM

McCain's 'service honorable and noble,' Rockefeller said.

Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. called Arizona senator and presidential candidate John McCain Tuesday to apologize for remark he made about McCain in a recent newspaper article.

“I have deep respect for John McCain’s honorable and noble service to our country. I made an inaccurate and wrong analogy and I have extended my sincere apology to him," Rockefeller said in a release. "While we differ a great deal on policy issues, I profoundly respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words."

Rockefeller’s remarks were published in an interview with the Charleston Gazette.

He said McCain has become insensitive to many human issues.

According to the paper, Rockefeller said "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

 

[trublu]

Read some of the pro-Obama comments on that article at the source.

I’ve never been more afraid for my country.

[Grunthor]

“McCain camp calls on Obama to denounce ‘smear’”

Juanito, you friggin’ moron, just because YOU throw conservatives under the BS Express that attack the other side does NOT mean that Hussein (sorry Juan, don’t cry) will do the same to Liberals attacking you.

[50sDad]

Did you know the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were both launched from a secret base in the aleutians and were laser guided all the way??

It was ordered by the Bilderburgers and the Trilateral Commission because the Grays were threatening to take Hitler's brain (in a jar at this point) and put it in a Transformers-style giant robot to wage revenge on behalf of the Emperor. Clearly, that had to be stopped by the destruction of their secret base, run by some guy named Katz. At the last, the bombs were sent on their way by a young Private Elvis Presley, who had been snatched from a future world run by Nazis stationed at their own base in the Artic, where they had emerged from the Hole to the Secret World at the Center of the Earth in the late 50's to conquer the world with Ming's death-ray. It was only the secret success of the the Philadelphia Experiment that brought Elvis, Dillinger, and a small amount of stolen Plutonium back to the Allied scientists at Oak Ridge that turned the tide of the war BEFORE the Nazis escaped to the Artic, trapping Hitler in a closed time loop where he may never escape. And it was all Bush's fault. Because he shot JFK. To prevent Rev. Wright from becoming Vice President.

[Baladas]

I don’t have to see his running mate to know Barack Hussein Obama is the most dangerous candidate of them all.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Both Peace Corps and VISTA. No military service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller

[freespirited]

Hell, even Xerox machines were rare even if they existed then.

All I remember from 1968 is those mimeograph machines that turned out copies with purple ink.

No one even had a remote control in those days. Well maybe the military did, but no one had one for their garage door or TV or ceiling fan.

I'll bet the RATS will not even be embarrassed by Rockefeller's stupidity.

[informavoracious]

A good old boys’ plot to muscle out Hillary? Acting like the race is already just between them? Trying to out-gentleman one another? Or maybe McCain is a stealth Obaman?

[antiRepublicrat]

Don’t forget he did it with an A4 Skyhawk, an attack aircraft, essentially a light bomber. McCain never flew a fighter in combat. Two factual lies in one sentence. Is this idiot going for a record?

Plus I believe the Skyhawk normally did low-altitude bombing, not high-altitude like 35,000 feet. Possible third lie.

[Always Right]

I may not be as techno savy as Senator Rockefeller but I don’t believe we had laser guided bombs during the Vietnam war. In fact the Vietnam War was before personal computers, laser printers and cell phones. Hell, even Xerox machines were rare even if they existed then.

I believe Gore did invent the laser guided missiles in 1966 not too long after he invented the internet.

[avacado]

"Excellent!"

By the time the general election comes about McCain will have Obama with a full blown case of the Stockholm Syndrome.

Stockholm Syndrome: is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker..."

[smartin]

Good, better than the other way around.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Apologies aren’t adequate. Rockefeller’s remarks were outrageous.
I don’t care for McCain, but I do care when a veteran and former POW is vilified for his honorable service. And by a US Senator of all people.
I am writing my senators, urging them to denounce Rockefeller and call for his resignation. Yes, I realize that’s futile.
McCain would even oppose it.
Still.

[squarebarb]

It seems to be that way on all the MSM sites.
apparently the newspapers and alphabet media are being watched only by extremely angry leftist people. From what I can tell in their comments section.

[EDINVA]

That ‘laser’ technology in the 60’s was incredible.

But doesn’t this raise the question: what Sen. Rockefeller thinks of those serving today who CAN send laser-guided weaponry on enemy targets? Are they thoughtless, uncaring baby murderers? Does ROckefeller have the courage to look one of them in the eye and make that comment ?

[antiRepublicrat]

The Paveway series was used in Vietnam in 1968 and beyond.

I just looked this up. McCain was flying an A4E, and the A4 couldn't do laser-guided bombs until the A4F, which was first operational aboard the USS Ticonderoga (not McCain's Oriskany) only a few months before McCain was shot down.

[normy]

"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?" Sen. Jay Rockefeller said in an interview published in Tuesday's Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. "He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

Some of McCain's old friends from the Senate? Hope he gets as nasty with his fellow king as he did with Bush.

[smartin]

He has apologized according to Drudge.

http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=24332

[allmendream]

But I have heard from “unimpeachable sources” that the Air Force had “word perfect” on their computers back in the Vietnam era! Lasers isn't much of a stretch after THAT! ;)

[Enchante]

An apology is irrelevant and insulting, and should be rejected. Rockefeller exposed once again the vicious military-hating heart of so much of the political left ala Bill Maher’s similar comment after 9/11.

Rockefeller showed his true colors, and now he is backtracking just because it is an embarrassment for Obama’s campaign.

Anyone can say “oops I’m sorry” after such a vicious remark becomes a political embarrassment, but now we can see what Rockefeller really thinks of our pilots and our military (as if we didn’t already know).

[OKSooner]

Some of the comments on the CNN blog are absolutely pukeworthy. Liberal college pukes doing all they can to apologize for their messiah.

[tom paine 2]

Yes General Curtis LeMay was exorting us to “bomb the Cong back into the stone age” ala Dresden and Tokyo no lasers just tons and tons of big bombs.

[Rummyfan]

According to the paper, Rockefeller said "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

Rockefeller is an ass and a disgrace to the United States, but apparently being a Dem in WVa is all that is required to get elected (see Robert Byrd).

BTW, Rockefeller also met with Bashir Assad just prior to our invading Iraq in 2003.

[BGHater]

I know. My point wasn't toward the McCain comment. But to the fact that we had LGB circa 68 and used them in Nam.

[smartin]

I agree. Just pointing out the article.

[stockstrader]

What an absolutely outrageous comment for Rockefeller (typical liberal).

I guess that Rockefeller seems to have forgotten that McCain,,,,

spent almost SIX YEARS ON THE GROUND there in Vietnam--aka the Hanoi Hilton!!!!!!!

[mimaw]

I HATE LIBTARDS.

[mimaw]

He and sissy Mathews. They make a team don’t they?

[PGR88]

At the age McCain was flying F-4’s into AA fire, dodging SAMS and was being tortured by the N.Vietnamese, Obamanator was pondering the meaning of his absentee father while getting stoned on weed and blow on the beach in Hawaii.
Tell us about that Rockefeller.

[PGR88]

Rockefeller - he is rich because his great-grandfather started Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron. Talk about oil-for-blood-money, fool!

[TNCMAXQ]

Oh yes the good Sen Rockefeller. As governor he kept the AC on in his office while they shut it off at state hospitals to save money. There is a good compassionate Democrat. Of course the people of WV elected him to the Senate 4 times anyway, and he will probably stay there as long as Byrd.