Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I know and understand the arguments against McCain. What I'll never know is what it's like to suffer like he did.Politics doesn't supercede what that man did in Vietnam, nor what happened to him there.
I agree with you almost all the time Mac, but not here. McCain started this childish back and forth. I appreciate his service, and I can't hope to know the hell he went through; but he betrayed his fellow veterans by supporting cutting benefits for those in the military. TRICARE of all things. He of all people should know better.
McCain Joins Obama s Call for Military Benefit Cuts
Apparently, rotting in a prison cell in North Vietnam didn't teach him enough respect for his fellow veterans. Or was that whole "I want to stay in prison with my comrades" thing just for show? That experience should have taught him that vets deserve to be pampered, appreciated, and supported--- not treated like second class citizens by the government they swore their lives to.
I just wouldn't go there, and I'm not obligated to respect someone who will go there for political gain.
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I don't think he did it for political gain, per se. I think it was a badly-worded ad hominem attack due to a personal conflict between the two men. Not hard to understand, given that John McCain, whatever else he is, is a grade-A douche canoe.