Posted on 06/30/2008 10:46:10 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
This quote was from Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, an organization that gave $600,000 in cash and supplies in "humanitarian aide" to an insurgent-controlled Fallujah several years ago in our current war (the Marines won anyway, which is perhaps why Code Pink is leading the assault against the Marines in Berkeley).
That is just one toxic outburst is a collection of indefensible comments from the radical fringe of the Democratic Party laughably called "progressives" in a series of personal attacks levied at Presidential candidate John McCain and chronicled by Ben Smith in a Politico article.
Prominent progressive blogger John Aravosis attacked McCain for breaking under brutal torture in North Vietnamese prisons, and labeled the unwilling use of McCain in a North Vietnamese propaganda film as "disloyalty." Tellingly, Aravosis has never uttered similar words of disapproval against Jane Fonda, who willingly and famously posed for propaganda photos on North Vietnamese antiaircraft guns that were used to shoot at American pilots like McCain.
Other angry souls associated with MoveOn.org, , the Huffington Post, and Mother Jones also have expressed interest in attacking McCain's military record.
Democrat Wesley Clark—notable for his scarcity of support in the military, notes fighter pilot Lex—also attacked McCain's military experience as an example of poor leadership experience, without, or course, expressing how Obama's thin resume has prepared him to lead anything as consequential as a Cub Scout Troop.
We've known that Barack Obama's base among the radical fringe would bring out some long-seated uglinesses in part of the Democratic Party that makes up his base, but I don't think that anyone could have expected it would come out this soon, this hard, this transparently.
I wouldn’t consider anyone in Code Pink an American.
Including Kerry?
Kerry was in Vietnam?
“I would not consider the direct offspring of Hitler Medea Benjamin as an American but as a traitor and piece of scum”
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to have sex with her. She IS contraception.
Kerry gained "hero" status because he supposedly threw away his medals away and went before the congress and sold out his fellow soldiers by calling them murderers and plunderers and referring to them with an elitist and affectatious pronounciation of Genghis Khan.
“Code Pink Founder”.....is an anti-American hag.
The MSM will have it’s hands full trying to keep these loony moonbats on the back pages.....................
Then her comment applies to McCain’s critic Wesley Clark just as much as it applies to McCain.
The creature on the right is better looking.
Wow, hadn't heard that - did he get any medals?
Yeah, I heard that he presented some medals to himself before he threw other people’s medals over a fence.
I don't recall the communists on the Left denouncing this man's military service in Vietnam during the 2004 election. Instead we heard how much more heroic Kerry was and how Bush didn't "really" serve. We NEEDED a war "hero" from Vietnam that election.
Here we now have a candidate who suffered TORTURE for YEARS under the North Vietnamese Communists and they are still RA RA for the Commies.
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