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Research, people, research. Does this sound as bad to others as it does to me? Does it pretty much put an end to the Michelle comments controversy?
And Mrs. Obama wasn’t really proud of America until just a little while ago...
A much better statement would have been:
“I really didn’t realize how much I loved America until I was deprived of her company.”
He's saying that being without America as a POW was what made him realize just how much he loved her.
Moron.
No, and I'll tell you why.
McCain didn't understand how great America was until he experienced what other countries are like. America didn't have to change to earn his love: HE changed.
Michelle wasn't proud of America until America did what she wanted. She DIDN'T change.
Now do you see the difference?
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no comparison...McCain was hot-shot young man in Navy when his plane went down.....a “jerk” by his own description in his book....Michelle Obama is a 45 year old successful lawyer.
At 25 I didn’t know enough to “love my country”.,,,and I voted for “change” with Ross Perot. What an idiot I was then....
It only sounds bad if you aren't thinking. He didn't say he doesn't love America now. He said he didn't really love America until he was deprived of the freedom the country gives to him. He learned to really appreciate the country when he saw what liberty was all about. He was a young man, most young men don't think about loving the country, they take it for granted. I am not a McCain lover, actually I kind of dislike many things about the guy, but this statement is not bad, actually it is quite good. Don't like it? Try putting your brain in gear, or maybe get a transplant, you sound as if you need one.
And,
I'm certain that Michelle Obama is an America-hater just like her husband and his good friends the Ayers and Dohrns and Wrights, and Phlegers, etc.
But, FOR PITY SAKES!
John Sidney McCain...
Words have meaning. Don't give the enemy ammo, when you are surely better than your words implied, and you just plain know better!
Sheesh!
Yep, I saw the tape.
No. Context. If he had only said "I really didn't love America" then that might have been something. However when you take it into context you realize that he was talking about prior to being a POW.
He was pretty much a kid, and probably loved America like a home, but not REALLY love America through appreciation that can only be gained with knowledge and wisdom. Then America was taken from him and he realized what it actually meant to him.
We joke often here that if people don't love the United States then they should move somewhere else and see how much they miss it.
Well John McCain did just that by getting interned at the Hanoi Hilton.
Compare his vietnam experience to that of John Kerry and tell me who is the better man of the two. John McCain hands down, without a doubt, even with an out of context quote trying to make him sound un-American.
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.
No comparison, end of story.
I see nothing even slightly questionable about his statement. This is an absurd thread.
No comparison and it certainly doesn’t put an end to criticism of Michelle’s comments.
Anyone who can not understand what McCain is saying in the context of his experience is either a wierdo, an idiot, or a pinko Obama apologist pretending for political purposes to have found the holy grail. As to whether this Oscar-nominated effort by MSNBC will have any effect on the heat that Michelle Obama has been getting is hard to say. If she screws up again, she’ll get heat. If she doesn’t, other campaign news will dominate the media— maybe even some real news. MSNBC is a media cesspool. Nobody watches it unless they are already of a certain persuasion, or are interested for intellegence purposes in what the “G— D-—America” crowd is saying.
I think what he is trying to say is that you don’t truely appreciate something until you lose it or are separated from it. And it’s true. The overwhelming majority of the people in this country take our freedoms and our liberties for granted. They’ve always enjoyed them and never had to fight for them. As Thomas Paine wrote, “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.” But take it away and it’s another story.
