Ex-POW McCain Returns to 'Hanoi Hilton' Prison

Fox ^ | April 8, 2009

[RDTF]

HANOI, Vietnam -- Sen. John McCain paid a quiet visit to the "Hanoi Hilton" prison where he was held for more than five years during the Vietnam War on Wednesday, making a few deadpan remarks as he made his way through dark corridors and past musty cells.

McCain allowed reporters to follow him while he escorted Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina through the prison.

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[SolidWood]

Is Lindsay John’s shadow or what?

[theDentist]

Call me cynical, but I think the reason he let the press follow is for stories and photos to point to when he plans to run again for 2012.

[kabar]

McCain is running for reelection in 2010 and will face a primary challenge. Time to dust off the resume and play the POW card. Maverick McCain must be defeated.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I think he’s too old to be considered for another crack at the presidency by that point...

[SolidWood]

plans to run again for 2012

Not going to happen. The only election he has to worry about is his senate seat 2010.

[sickoflibs]

ping

[theDentist]

Yes, but remember, in his mind he still thinks that given another couple weeks he’d have won. He knows that after 3 months of Obama, he’s appealing to a lot more people. The lesser evil, as it were.

[Rummyfan]

God Bless John McCain for his service to our country.

... doesn't entitle him to be senator-for-life though...

[theDentist]

$100 donation to FR says he will throw his hat into the ring after 2010’s election.

[ETL]

From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
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From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[MBB1984]

Lindsay probably got goosebumps at the thought of he and Juan in prison together.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

McCain allowed reporters to follow him while he escorted Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina through the prison.

McCain should have done this during the campaign. Most of the clueless kids who voted for Obama didn't even know that McCain is a veteran. Obama is going to ruin this country....IMO

[MBB1984]

If the GOP (and crossover independents) were crazy enough to give him the nomination in 2008, they are crazy enough to do it again in 2012. I feel sure Obama and Soros would be laughing hysterically at the thought of repeat of the 2008 contest.

[silverleaf]

I conclude that Lindsay has man-love for John McCain

the stockholm-syndrome afflicted John McCain’s posturing and press entourage in Vietnam puts him in the same league as John Kerry, another man whose future is behind him

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[ZULU]

Any chance he will STAY there?

[DuncanWaring]

On a slightly-related note, the Hilton chain actually has a property in Hanoi; they just don't call it the "Hanoi Hilton".

Hilton Hanoi Opera.

[spectre]

"Any chance he will STAY there?"

Sorry...There's a better chance he'll play a nice game of solitaire before he leaves.

sw

[Raster Man]

While he is over there, he can find a MIA that he and Kerry through under the bus and apologize.

[Old Sarge]

Good thing he didn’t take Mehgan - she’d get stuck in the cell door...

[MplsSteve]

I have to give McCain a lot of credit.

After spending 5 horrible years at the Hanoi Hilton, being starved and tortured and kept in isolation, I’m not sure I could even step foot in that country again.

[radiohead]

<Most of the clueless kids who voted for Obama didn’t even know that McCain is a veteran.

I try to keep politics out of the classroom, but when McCain’s name came up in a discussion of tech policy, a student said out of the blue, “McCain doesn’t even know how to use email,” I’m afraid I shot right back with, “McCain is a war hero and is physically unable to use a keyboard. Don’t believe everything you read in the press.” I want students to be comfortable saying what’s on their mind in class, but I’m not going to let some guy who did 5 years in the HH get maligned by an Ozombie.

[algernonpj]

“Any chance he will STAY there?”

.
One can but hope.

[sportutegrl]

I think he’s too old to be considered for another crack at the presidency by that point...

This was also said of Ronald Reagan.

[a fool in paradise]

He should have asked Jane Fonda to accompany him.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe he could run for Robert Byrd’s seat...

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

There is also the fact that it has been a long time since a loser in a previous presidental race has been selected to have another go. Last one I can think of was Nixon...

[onemiddleamerican]

He's made return visits in the past, IIRC. I'm almost sorry to even think that he does these return visits for political points/re-election PR.

If I am wrong, I apologize to the man; but if I am correct, he's not much different that John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, BTW.

Both need to be run out of DC and replaced by men who will do what is right for our country.

(I'm in a foul mood this morning, I think)

[theDentist]

yup. But I’d expect (and this is not a bad thing) that anyone who survived such an incarceration for so long would likely live his life feeling he would be invulnerable from then on, that he is the exception to the norm. Couple that with being a politician, who tend to have highly inflated opinions of themselves anyhow, and you’d get a man who thinks that he will inevitably be victorious.

[calcowgirl]

McCain is a war hero and is physically unable to use a keyboard. Don’t believe everything you read in the press.

Like you said. I don't believe McCain's lack of computer skills have anything to do with physical disability.

[DuncanWaring]

Ronald Reagan, 1976/1980.

[mlo]

Regan lost the primary. The general election was between Carter and Ford.

[DuncanWaring]

After my post it occurred to me that might have been what he meant.

[DuncanWaring]

How about Mondale, 80(VP)/84?

[Albion Wilde]

"I couldn't control my despair," McCain wrote in his autobiography. "All my pride was lost, and I doubted I would ever stand up to any man again..."

As we have seen.

[Albion Wilde]

God bless you for that, radiohead. Much as I lamented the weaknesses of his candidacy, he will always deserve respect for what happened to him as a POW.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

McCain is a great man, I hope all those who opposed him are happy with Hussein Obama.

[RDTF]

agree