News and Politics | September 02, 2008 | 9 comments

Former POW says McCain is "not cut out to be President"

source: http://therealmccain.com/butler/

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"To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all."

-- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.
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  • onechance
  • shroomfairy
  • Holden258
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      Holden258  

    • I'm really not at all surprised to hear this. It was really only a matter of time before McCain maxed out his POW card.
      I respect the fact that he fought for this country, that he put his life on the line for it, but hearing him constantly bring up the fact that he was a POW, no matter how little relevance it had to the situation at hand, made me sick. He used his status as a crutch and I'm glad to see someone who went through the same thing call him on it.

    • 3 years ago
  • aspenlve
  • intelligenceisacurse
  • 1percent
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      1percent  

    • What a great word.....
      Bellicose
      bel·li·cose
      –adjective
      inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

      This coming from a man who knows him on a level not many others could say they do...

      Ride on!

    • 3 years ago
  • Inofuilwell
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