McCain Not Fit for Command

6 Comments

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   robertdsc on September 2, 2008 at 11:32 am

   There are no words.

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     Steven D on September 2, 2008 at 11:33 am

     I think he said them all.

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   anarchronarchist on September 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   You tube is blocked in my office (and many, many others), got any text?

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     Steven D on September 2, 2008 at 2:27 pm

     Sorry, the link to what I believe to be the text at the Brave New Films website appears to be broken.

     You’ll have to wait til you get home I guess.

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     Steven D on September 2, 2008 at 2:32 pm

     Here’s a bit of it from a post about the ad at The Huffington Post:

     “I think I can say with authority that the prisoner of war experience is not a good prerequisite for President,” says Butler. “John McCain is not somebody I would like to see with his finger near the red button.”

     He only goes on from there. “He was very sensitive and touchy and just easy to anger,” Butler says of the Arizona Republican. “John McCain’s temperament makes it clear that he is not cut out to be President of the United States.”

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   Brad on September 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm

   There’s one part of the McCain mythology that’s never made a lick of sense to me. He or his biographers claim that the North Vietnamese wanted to try some propaganda ploy because McCain’s father was placed in charge in the Pacific but he refused release from captivity because others had been held longer and that this so enraged his captors that his punishments (it used to be called torture) became more severe.

   Now, I haven’t tried to track down all the sources of this narrative, and maybe there is some corroboration from Viet Nam, but:  since when is the prisoner in charge of his captivity?  If the North Vietnamese wanted him repatriated why would they give a damn about McCain’s wishes in the matter?  How hard would it have been to ship him South and turn him over to the US or the ARVN?