Posted on 10/22/2017 9:23:59 PM PDT by be-baw
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McCain, whose status as a war hero Trump publicly and controversially doubted as a 2016 presidential candidate, appeared to retaliate in kind against the president in a C-SPAN interview about the Vietnam War airing Sunday night. In the interview, McCain pointed to wealthy Americans who were able to get out of being drafted into service in the conflict in which he spent years as a prisoner of war. And he pointed to a very specific type of deferment which Trump just happened to use.
“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain said. “That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
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I want to visit his grave with a full bladder....
Living one’s life as a bitter, angry, envious S.O.B. is a terrible fate.
Dying as one is even worse.
"One of history’s best-known traitors, Benedict Arnold was a successful general from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War — until he switched sides and was caught trying to help the British in 1780."
http://www.who2.com /bio/benedict-arnold/
They are proven hypocrites who espouse conservative principles and then act like FReeloading leeches/welfare babies by letting others carry their water...
Don't know if you're one of them, but you wouldn't be alone if it fits....
Worst. Vote. I. Ever. Cast.
In 2008, I wanted Fred Thompson. Alas.
I do remember Ann Coulter saying during those primaries, the media will pick McCain..and he will lose. It was “his turn”.
Then, the stupid party..picks the guy who LOST to McCain, to run in 2012. Pretty easy to see why they though Hillary was a shoe in..
Songbird.
First Soviet ace of the Vietnam Era—wrecked five planes while a Naval Aviator.
Betrayed his fellow POWs left behind in 1973 by shutting down the POW-MIA investigations in 1992, along with his fellow traitor John Kerry.
And unlike Bill Clinton, Trump actually showed up when he was drafted. The Army rejected him for the bone spur.
Time for the McCain Legend to be replaced with the truth about his “hero” status.
John McCain’s 1969 “Tokyo Rose” Propaganda Recording Released
https://www.trunews.com/article/john-mccains-1969-tokyo-rose-propaganda-recording-released
Trump did’t become a POW and sell out his country.
Has McCain stop apologizing to Obama yet?
Weren’t McCain’s father and grandfather both big-time officers in the military? Would that have influenced McCain’s rise in military rank?
Hey, McCain, Go F Yourself. Bone Spurs are painful...
Says Bowe Bergdahl in a Skyhawk.
“Well they did torture the shit out of him for five years and he did resist an early release”
NOT TRUE! He was not tortured for 5 years. I doubt he was “tortured” much at all. He told them EVERYTHING they wanted to know WITHOUT being tortured.
“Resisted early release” sort of true except it was for his fear of being convicted as a TRAITOR. The passage of time was his friend and it worked out that way for him.
STOP with the McCain “hero worship” already. He was a TRAITOR during wartime. He should be EXECUTED!
He collaborated with the enemy and even made propaganda videos for them.
McCain is a vengeful fool, and now he brings back the Vietnam War as if this is a deciding factor about anything. Make sure you get everyone.
But while we are back in history, let’s go back to the McCain plantation where you relatives owned and sold black slaves.
Many black folks still carry the name McCain.
This was your fear, and you were horrified that Obama and Rev Wright would being it up. Trump might bring that up you old cracker.
What percent of congress losers, congress staff or lobbyists served in the military?
Yes, indeed. And he shares this “we did it in WWII and everybody served, even the rich” BS opinion of wanting the draft brought back from a volunteer force-— with Charles Rangel (another a-hole socialist).
Now to the nub of it. McCain’ ancestors were major slaveholders in... Mississippi. This is the “govt. plantation” connecting logic, along with mil-socialist-industrialist” perpetual war making campaign kickback logic that LINKs the inside the Beltway RINOs with the DINOs and basic welfare/warfare state dems. The kind of democrats populated by the ever present in great numbers of ....retired Army colonels. And they aren’t Andy Jackson democrats... more like the “good” ole Scoop Jackson Western neo-socialists. And George Bush, and the Bushes in general are exactly the same.
Don’t put words in my mouth please
Be accurate as to what I said
Now prove your allegations with something more than large caps
So many choices...so little time
McCain should of taken his suicide pill.
As I recall, Donald Trump had multiple deferments including College deferments.
I understand he also had a high Draft lottery number just like I did, which would mean he wouldn’t have been Drafted anyway.
Of course, there was that Letter he wrote to the Draft Board saying he loathed the Military while he was at Oxford. Oh wait, that was Hillary’s Husband.
BTW - Two of my Friends were #1 and #3 in the Draft Lottery. They both joined the Air Force rather than waiting to get Drafted into the Army.
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