McCain: The POW card

Rodney Hopper, Waxahachie, TX — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:48:50 GMT

Noun-Verb-POW

That's been their only defense lately.

He really cheapening one of his most admirable traits.

He's going to put it to the point where it's fair game.

This is a bad move in the long run.

"How can you say, John McCain, a war hero, would make a bad move in the long run?"

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McCain: The POW card

j ferguson, Green Cove Springs, FL — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:53:29 GMT

Reports that McCain is not "comfortable" with his campaign suggest that he isn't running it. I fail to see how heightened integrity is a product of the POW experience.

McCain: The POW card

Suburban Mom paying attention, IL — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:56:19 GMT

Don't forget his latest use of the POW pass (with Katie Couric hoding his hand the whole way) to explain the housing debacle:

"I spent many years without a kitchen table"

We get it, John. Ad nauseum. You may want to throttle back on the POW-as-excuse-for-everything position. Your "strength" is in danger of becoming a punch-line.

McCain: The POW card

Wade Ens Toronto, Canada — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:59:08 GMT

McCain has played the POW card because its true.

Obama could play the my 1/2 Brother is homeless in Kenya and I don't care card.

McCain proved then he stayed in the POW camp to stay with his men rather than leave, shows he has always put American's first, he was left to die and onloy by chance was he picked up by a passing jeep and lived.

So this is What McCain did when there was no TV Cameras around, and my heart goes out to him.

On his joke, he told his wife that and she thought it was cute. I like McCain he is more down to earth and seems a lot younger than he is, McCain ok, the democratsw will try and pick at anything.

McCain: The POW card

Lyn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:52 GMT

My husband and several of his friends were in Viet Nam, and it's hardly ever spoken of. When I've mentioned it in discussions, I usually hear it's memories they would rather forget and not re-live.

McCain is becoming a noun, a verb, and 'POW'... He might as well pick Rudy as a running mate... Then we can hear the hourly chorus of 9/11 & POW...

McCain: The POW card

katiec Pekin, IL — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:13:24 GMT

"Give me a break"!
It was so obvious Mccain knew the questions prior to the so called religious debate. He answered questions before they were totally asked and inquired when a certain question would be brought up.
And to top that, he stole the story about a cross in the sand.
Anyone who cannot see this man for the fraud he is, is wearing blinders.

McCain: The POW card

Voter — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:17:37 GMT

POW card? Wait until he pulls out the 'I'm White' card, just like Hillary did the morning after the Indiana, and NC primaries, out of desperation. I could not believe she went there so nakedly, with her 'hard working white people' divisivness.

McCain: The POW card

Amy B Portland, Me — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:22:49 GMT

Maureen made some good points on The McCain camp overusing his P.O.W. status as a get out of jail free card for every single misstep, but I thought Frank Rich's column today on what Obama has to do to win was absolutely brilliant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24rich.html?hp

McCain: The POW card

Ian — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:23:45 GMT

Bravo Maureen Dowd! McCain substitutes that story for an answer to every tough question he’s asked. And what else can he do? If he doesn't start waxing nostalgic about how much he suffered 40 years ago he inevitably ends up looking like a deer in the klieg lights.

McCain: The POW card

Chris, Chicago, IL — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:05 GMT

Q & A in a future debate...

Senator McCain, could you please tell us about the Keating 5 scandal?

Well certainly. I spent five and a half years as a POW...so...I think that answers the question. There were no savings and loans corps. in Vietnam, after all.

McCain: The POW card

Jim K Sevierville TN — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:09:24 GMT

POW, give it a break already!!! that was 30 years ago, the POW excuse didn't come into play with the Cheating on his 1st wife, Keating 5, IRAQ invasion, mortgage crisis, economic crisis, 100million in family fortune, or 7 homes. McCain isn't a maverick he's a phony pure and simple. Completely out of touch with the middle class (unless you make 5 million or more) geeze.

McCain: The POW card

Doreen Augusta Maine — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:09:30 GMT

Again, I repeat, being a POW does not a war hero make. He saved no lives except for his own.