Did John McCain Say He Didn't Really Love America?

Talking Points Memo ^ | 6/19/08

[roses of sharon]

Obviously he was expressing that he did not appreiate the US, and took it for granted, before he was captured.

Marxist Michelle can stuff it!

She needs to denigrate a real American in order keep her cover?

We know who she is, and she will slip up again, never fear.

[library user]

Talkign Points Memo blog is run by a liberal. It’s garbage.

[Antoninus]

Does this sound as bad to others as it does to me?

It would if I were a complete illiterate boob.

Does it pretty much put an end to the Michelle comments controversy?

Not hardly, sonny. Better luck next time.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I don’t see the big deal. A lot of Americans, when they go abroad for the first time to a turd world country for any reason, develop a newfound appreciation for this country.

Yep, I always get kind of a lump in my throat when the Customs person says, "Welcome home."

[spacejunkie01]

we haven’t left the word REALLY out of MO’s comments; she did. She said she wasn’t proud at 2 separate occassions. Once w/ really and once without.

[tumblindice]

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[weegee]

The men McCain was imprisoned with did all they could to survive the torture they endured. Tortures that the Obamas try to say are like the struggles that Black Americans faced in the 1960s.

But the men McCain was with did things like stitch together their own US flag. The man who made that flag was beaten by guards over it. And when they took it from him, he made another one.

The Obamas show open disdain for our flag. Have they suddenly come to love it and America? I think not.

[SoConPubbie]

I am one of the greatest McCain detractors on FreeRepublic and even I do not find problems with this statement and I understand what he meant.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

You’ll rarely find me in the position of defending McCain, as he is the bane of my conservative existance; HOWEVER, his statements, when compared to Michelle Obama’s have a totally different meaning.

First, the qualifier business is just asinine with respect to proud. Either you are proud or you’re not. People love things, without “really” loving them all the time. McCain’s point was, it wasn’t until he was separated from America’s freedoms, opportunities, comfortable way of life that he really came to a fuller appreciation of them.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Does this sound as bad to others as it does to me?

LOL - no. Actions speak louder than any self-proclaimed patriot's words, and John McCain was fighting for and sacrificing for his country when he came to his realization. Obviously he loved his country deeply, though he didn't realize how much till he thought he'd never see it again.

Does it pretty much put an end to the Michelle comments controversy?

The mainstream media has pronounced that controversy over, now that Clinton is out of the race. It's full court press for Obama now by the media.

[billva]

This is really grasping at straws for the McCain haters. How anyone can make something out of McCain's statement about finding how much he loved America when he was a prisoner of war is beyond me.

What it does prove is the lengths some will go to when they have an irrational hate of someone else.

[FFranco]

First, we know that no Democrat loves America because of their anti-American ideology. Second, Barak and Michelle Obama are Black nationalists determined to destroy America, so they hate our country even more than most Democrats. Third, what John McCain meant (and what he should have said) was that he loved America more when he was in VN than before when he was just a privileged, playboy, hot shot naval flyer.

[1035rep]

No, he did not!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Very nicely and accurately put

[mngran2]

Properly put... to bad that FreeRepublic has to clean up for him.

Thank you. That was my point all along. I think there's clearly a difference between these two statements, but now you have to explain context, meaning, etc. to viewers/readers/voters so it doesn't make it as easy to simply play the Michelle quote and leave it at that.

[Soliton]

I lived in London in the 70’s as a young man. I had been conditioned by the MSM to think America was responsible for everything wrong in the world.

Being away changed all that. I wasn’t tortured either. I was just given perspective. McCain got perspective in much bigger doses.

[Niteranger68]

He was making the classic “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” statement. Any other interpretation would be rooted in retardation.

[1035rep]

Yes, same difference, so libs— try again, losers

Oh, and they will.   

[spacejunkie01]

I’m moved.

God is so good, isn’t He?

[FlashBack]

I wish more people understood that...good explanation!