I believe more of our political 'leaders' should be willing to step up.
McCain is a good man. 
Posted on 12/26/2006 2:31:11 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
As the Iraq Study Group issued its long-awaited report on the war, declaring that the United States should not dispatch more troops, Sen. John McCain reacted with his long-held and contrary view: It will take more boots on the ground, or the nation faces "sooner or later, our defeat in Iraq."
Then the Arizona Republican discreetly flew to San Diego, where the next day, Dec. 8, he sat under a hot sun to watch a skinny 18-year-old in military-issue glasses graduate from boot camp and become a Marine. His son Jimmy.
John McCain's public certainty about Iraq masks a more private and potentially wrenching connection. If more troops go there, as McCain hopes they will, his youngest son could be one of them, taking his place in a line of family warriors that is one of the longest in U.S. history.
Sen.-elect James Webb (D-Va.) also has a son in the Marine Corps named Jimmy. On the campaign trail, Webb declined to talk about his son, who is in Iraq, but he wore Jimmy's boots as he called for American forces to come home.
McCain has not drawn any attention to his son and declined to be interviewed for this article.
A leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, McCain has been one of the few and among the most vocal politicians pressing for more troops in Iraq. "We left Vietnam, it was over, we just had to heal the wounds of war. We leave this place . . . and they'll follow us home," he said on a news show recently. "So there's a great deal more at stake."
McCain's own father faced the anguish of sending a son to war. Adm. John McCain Jr., who commanded Pacific forces during the Vietnam War, ordered airstrikes on Hanoi......
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Carolyn
Bump!
What, now it's time for the DBM to play footsie with McCain?
I believe more of our political 'leaders' should be willing to step up.
McCain is a good man.
Here's hoping that McCain's son is not a traitor like his father was.
Other than being a traitor and crazy, and willing to stab his fellow Republican's in the back, I guess that you could say that John McCain is a good man.
You took the post right off of my keyboard.
The most disgusting comment of the day.
Don't worry, the day is still young.
Ive been waiting for a McCain post to lay it out to all of you MCCain haters out there.
The biggest problem this nation faces is ISLAMOFASCISM. I am willing to swallow my pride and vote for someone who gets it, and McCain gets it. Do you think that your quest for "conservative purity" in a candidate will get you any more than someone like a Newt or Mitt? Both of them are unelectable and will surely bring on the reign of CLINTON II or Hussein Obama. Face facts, there is no Reagan candidate for 08. I wish there were, but for now the only guy thats going to fight the good fight is McCain. Read Mark Steyn to get the lowdown on the danger this nation and modern society faces, then tell me we can go with the cut and run types.
Don't forget insane.
Sick sick sick sick
Only if you call a "good man" someone who knifes in the back and obstructs President Bush every opportunity he gets.
Alot of people like John McCain....I don't.
I don't like the way he was involved in the Keating Five and found a hole to slime out of the mess he was in, is that why he's the media darling of all times?
And then there is the Campaign Finance Reform with him and Finegold....this opened the hole for Soros to pour money into the rat patrol pockets and increased the power of lobbyists.
McCain is all about McCain, he isn't interested in America, he could care less about the safety of America, he could care less about you and me.
Sure he went out on the campaign trail with President Bush in 04, but didn't you wonder if maybe he was a 'rat in sheep's clothing' to let Kerry know what Bush had planned? After all, it took McCain a week before he gave Kerry an answer as to whether he would be his VP....surely he wasn't concerned about America at that time, he was trying to figure out a way he could present this to the American people so they would swallow it, and when that didn't work, he said no, and that's the only reason....McCain for McCain.
I don't know why the people of Arizona vote him in all the time, guess he's bringing home the 'bacon' is the only reason I can see...I haven't seen him do any good for anything else but McCain.
Vote for him if thats what you want, another RINO, but I won't....there's to many of them in the Republican party and its time we get them out....
And now he's teaming up with Drunk kennedy for an immigration bill....why doesn't he just become a RAT instead of a RINO?????
When it comes to stepping up to fight for this country - John McCain is a good man; and so apparently is his son.
Sorry if my perspective as a U.S. Army combat veteran wasn't more specific...
best
Van
Many Republicans say they're not voting for McCain now but they'll probably end up pulling for him in 2008.
Just curious here. And let me state for the record that I think McCain is as corrupt and wobbly as the rest of them...but, just how is he a traitor?
Treason is a pretty significant charge to place against someone.
The thing most disturbing in John McCain is that he wants to eliminate your 2nd Amendment right to speak out and criticize incumbent politicians.
If he becomes president you can rest assured that commenting on political affairs around election time on forums like Freep will be illegal, or will be subject to massive regulations and reporting your name, address, income and political affilliations to the public before you're permitted to express your opinion.
Oh, and those incredible discoveries of political chicanery like Buckhead exposed? They won't be allowed anymore.
Ed
I take it this son is from his first marriage, --the good loyal wife and kids whom he dumped as soon as he got back on US soil. This young man comes from strong brave military stock, that skipped a generation with his father. John McCain sold his soul years ago for his bowl of political pottage. I'll bet that young skinny young McCain has more integrity than his dad ever had.
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