McCAIN MILKS THE POW COW
I am a prisoner of war. How dare you accuse me of anything?
I am grateful for the sacrifices that McCain made for this country and I believe his surviving his POW experience deserves our highest respect. And he should receive lifelong mental health benefits. And medals. And discounted movie tickets. And parades. And a discounted early bird special.
But McCain has now comically used his POW status as a crutch to deflect nearly all criticism. So much so that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have nothing left to parody.
For example, last weekend, McCain's spokeswoman responded to accusations that McCain was not in a "cone of silence" during the Saddleback forum by saying, "The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous."
Tonight, Jay Leno just asked his guest, Sen. McCain: "For $1 million, how many houses do you have?"
McCain responded, "I spent five and a half years in a prison cell, without — I didn’t have a house, I didn’t have a kitchen table, I didn’t have a table, I didn’t have a chair. And I spent those five and a half years, because — not because I wanted to get a house when I got out."
When will this end? Is anybody buying this?
McCain is flaunting his POW status the same way that the South African minister was flaunting his diplomatic immunity in Lethal Weapon 2.
I am starting to worry that McCain believes that his Vietnam POW status entitles him to, for example, stab me in the eye with a flaming shank ... without consequence.
"The indictment from the D.A.'s office that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, committed homicide is outrageous."
Labels: 2008 presidential election, John McCain
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