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Getting to Know John McCain [MUST READ!]
The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 30, 2008 | Karl Rove

Posted on 04/29/2008 10:07:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It came to me while I was having dinner with Doris Day. No, not that Doris Day. The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton.

As we ate near the Days' home in Florida recently, I heard things about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling. Moving because they told me things about him the American people need to know. And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of the most private individuals to run for president in history.

When it comes to choosing a president, the American people want to know more about a candidate than policy positions. They want to know about character, the values ingrained in his heart. For Mr. McCain, that means they will want to know more about him personally than he has been willing to reveal.

Mr. Day relayed to me one of the stories Americans should hear. It involves what happened to him after escaping from a North Vietnamese prison during the war. When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; brokenarm; budday; duplicate; election; elections; hanoihilton; karlrove; mccain; nocinmoh; pow; propaganda; rino; rove; vietnam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He clung to God and the hope of guns and probablt disliked his captors, who were different from him. Typical blue collar voter!

Seriously, this is compelling stuff. I only know McCain's record, not some of the stuff here.

241 posted on 04/30/2008 10:08:20 AM PDT by cake_crumb (At the rate Obama's going, his bus'll need a lift kit just to clear all the bodies.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
you are correct and due to the fact that he has two sons in harms way let's me know that he has a vested interests in not screwing around in foreign affairs.

As for "Her Cankleness" and "Obamalamadingdong-whose middle name shall not be spoken"...... not so much.

242 posted on 04/30/2008 10:09:46 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Vio24

I don’t know what BDS is.


243 posted on 04/30/2008 10:20:25 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (McCain calls it "radical islamic terrorism," the dems don't refer to it at all)
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To: LongElegantLegs

I’m aware it’s not about me, but some of y’all (you are not one of them) are making it about the McCain supporters than about McCain. That’s why I feel a need to note that I was not a McCain guy until he was pretty much already the nomminee.


244 posted on 04/30/2008 10:22:17 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Dick Vomer

Dead on, my man.


245 posted on 04/30/2008 10:23:00 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: LSUfan

You are right.

“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

- John Stuart Mill


246 posted on 04/30/2008 10:39:30 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: SoConPubbie

McCain is also against drilling in ANWAR.


247 posted on 04/30/2008 10:43:16 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (When you discover rats in your house, you only have two options - fumigate or tolerate.)
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To: Grunthor

“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

- John Stuart Mill


248 posted on 04/30/2008 10:46:28 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: exit82

Thanks.

I am sending McCain more money/ammo as will my friends.

Damn sad when money buys any public office.


249 posted on 04/30/2008 10:57:51 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: maine-iac7

What item or items on that list are inaccurate?


250 posted on 04/30/2008 10:59:35 AM PDT by Harvey105
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To: Lumper20
That's real nice. Not relevant to the conversation at hand but a real nice quote nonetheless.
251 posted on 04/30/2008 11:44:13 AM PDT by Grunthor (Which is more transparent, John McCains Styrofoam humility or Barack Obamas polyester sincerity?)
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To: Lumper20

I don’t understand your post to me.

Was it supposed to be to someone else?


252 posted on 04/30/2008 11:51:34 AM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: SoConPubbie

You left out the Keating 5 scandal.

Seven years ago FReepers were so outraged at McCain they were involved in a recall effort to get him out of the senate. Now FReepers are backing him for president. I never thought I’d see it happen.


253 posted on 04/30/2008 12:24:56 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: exit82
"It’s too bad a small mind is a terrible thing to waste."

And I'll just bet you speak from personal experience, right slick?

254 posted on 04/30/2008 1:02:59 PM PDT by Vio24
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To: Vio24

And you’d lose that bet. But then you must be used to being a loser by now.


255 posted on 04/30/2008 1:06:02 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

That’s about the size of it.


256 posted on 04/30/2008 1:21:12 PM PDT by LSUfan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here are my thoughts!

I don't need Karl Rove to tell me who to vote for or build 'feel-good' stories about McCain.

Whatever McCain was.....I only know him as someone who cared so little for the 'rule of law' that he was ready & more than willing to give away our precious sovereignty to millions of illegals

..he was promised something in return, I assure you...

..and I think it was the Presidency.

He rose like the proverbial phoenix after July.....
..no one does that with those negative numbers unless the 'powers that be' are pushing him from behind.

257 posted on 04/30/2008 3:54:34 PM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: exit82

excellent post, 82.....my thoughts exactly!


258 posted on 04/30/2008 3:58:39 PM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My dad's always been like that. In only very rare and extreme moments did I learn more about him; and things he did which truly qualify him as courageous and stalwart.

Thank you, Karl Rove for telling me about these private, personal, character revealing events concerning John McCain.

He who is faithful in little is faithful in much.

259 posted on 04/30/2008 4:24:29 PM PDT by Alia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good story but I don’t like his politics. I have no choice of course if a vote for McCain is a vote against Clinton or Obama. I’m still struggling with this.


260 posted on 04/30/2008 5:05:47 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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