Weak sauce coming from a guy that has defended Dubya's national guard holiday away from Vietnam and likely doesn't see a problem with Cheney and his five deferments. That shiat don't fly, gramps.

Solid State Vittles: That shiat don't fly, gramps.

And neither did Gramps during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

/... I smell brimstone.

BKITU: And neither did Gramps during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

HA!

RON PAUL wouldn't stoop to such comments.

See, unlike Obama, McCain understands that veterans do not need benefits, as long as they all become U.S. Senators with billionaire wives and all the perks that come therewith.

I've noticed that McCain threads are not nearly as exciting as Obama threads. What we really need to do is redlight this thread and then spin this in someway to praise or attack Obama directly. That way all the usual suspects show up and we can have 4 hours of "I hate all politicians but I'm gonna rail on Obama and Obama supporters for no reason whatsoever at all" like normal.

Strange how Obama gets more support from military donors, isn't it?

Of course, when the alternative is the guy who is against the new GI Bill and wants to keep you away from your family for another hundred years (all the time making America less safe), I guess it starts to make a little more sense.

Step 1. Plant a guy behind the curtain where McCain's podium is during the upcoming debates.

Step 2. Have aforementioned guy shout "didi mao!" at McCain right before he's about to speak each time.

Step 3. Profit.

Ah, it's just a re-telling of McCain's rambling statement from earlier today for excuse out of screwing current GIs.

This is a silly argument that is easy to settle.

Everyone who supports the troops raise their hands... really Mr. McCain? I must say I'm a little surprised and quite disappointed.

Cagey B: Step 1. Plant a guy behind the curtain where McCain's podium is during the upcoming debates.

Step 2. Have aforementioned guy shout "didi mao!" at McCain right before he's about to speak each time.

STEP 3. ?????????

Step 4. Profit.

FIFY LOL

Wait wait wait... now we're expecting people to fail on a massive level BEFORE they become President?

Good to know.

BKITU: And neither did Gramps during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

I believe you win the Internets with that.

The military McCain remembers no longer exists. GI Bill? He didn't have no GI Bill. Therefore, he couldn't give two shiats about it.

I work with a volunteer who talks constantly about his time in the Navy. I thought he had been a lifer, until I found out he was in the Navy for six years about sixty-five years ago. To say he's completely out of touch is an understatement.

This is how I think of McCain. Stuck somewhere that no longer exists.

So he was happy to throw Kerry to the wolves when he ran against Bush in 2004, but now suggests that things are different and we need a Veteran in the White House?

Go home McCain. Go home so we can 'take care of you'.

If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.

MacEnvy: Strange how Obama gets more support from military donors, isn't it?

Meh, leave it to a Dem to get support from government employees who want to suck off the public teat.

/am I doing it right?

McCain, who has stepped up his criticism of Obama but had not previously mentioned his lack of military service, said Obama had no right to criticize him on the issue.

Military service has no bearing on one's capacity to serve as president. It is an easy dodge tactic for McCain. Democrats can't really get away with attacking vets. It counts even less in terms of McCain because he comes from a military family. It isn't as if he was some draftee grunt.

randomjsa: If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.

Uh huh. Cause that mattered in 2000 to the Reds.

randomjsa: Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything. A person who thinks that civilians and non-career military personnel are beneath him shouldn't be president.

John McCain revealed today how much of an elitist he is. He's running to be the President for everyone in the United States, not just the few elites who become career military officials.

Operation Chaos: Last cycle, it was 'John Kerry, who served in Vietnam', 'Three purple hearts' and 'reporting for duty'.

This time around its, "Let's ridicule the POW."



There's no hate like liberal hateTM...

Operation Sock Puppet would be more fitting.

rppp01a: So he was happy to throw Kerry to the wolves when he ran against Bush in 2004

He didn't, actually. McCain thought the Swift Boat shiat was out of line.

Submitter: If you had May 22 in your office's "What day will John McCain play the Obama can't be President because he didn't get shot down flying a plane" pool, you win

I think you're one "card" short of a deck there, big fella.

Wahahahaha! I wanna be president! (not a rr)

I lived in Arizona when John McCain married Cindy and her money and moved into town, then beat 3 other longtime Republican contenders to succeed Rhodes in Congress, using his wife's money, and more importantly, the "I was a POW" card.

Then, six years later, when Goldwater retired, he used it again to get elected to the Senate.

I'm sorry, John McCain, but the US electorate isn't quite as dumb as the Arizona voters. "Wah, wah, I was a POW" isn't going to stop Americans from voting in change in their own interest. You should just walk quietly into the sunset.

rppp01a: randomjsa: If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.

Uh huh. Cause that mattered in 2000 to the Reds.

I don't recall anyone in 2000 shouting about how war veterans make better presidents but if you'd like to "Go There", where were the 2004 Democrats in 1992 and 1996?

The Democrats are the ones that spent the 2004 election season harping about how war veterans make better presidents. I wondered at the time where they were in 92 and 96 but it's ok, they have the chance in 2008 to vote for a war veteran... Which I'm sure they will because they themselves said a war veteran makes the best president in 2004.

I'd hate for them to be called hypocrites and liars.

Did he have a pancake moment?

From what I heard, military service in the 1980s involved hanging out in Germany for a few years. Unless you were sent to Grenada or something.

McCain's hatred for Obama is going to make the debates a lot of fun. Obama has really produced some interesting moments so far, like causing McCain go to on a 1100 rant in response to criticism.

While Senator Obama did not go into the military in the 1980s, John McCain didn't go into the Senate Chamber today. Obama didn't have to go, McCain should have went.

i have may 29th for "obama can't be president because he hasn't sat in a cell in north vietnam fapping to a poster of jane fonda" .
i bet i win.

what a ballsy thing for mccain to say

Gimme a farking break.

coma: This is a silly argument that is easy to settle.

Everyone who supports the troops raise their hands... really Mr. McCain? I must say I'm a little surprised and quite disappointed.

I'm going straight to hell for laughing at that.

/Therefore, I'm bringing the rum.

It is sort of interesting how the spin against the bill has been framed.

That instead of respecting our veterans and their decisions, it instead is being spun that we want to "encourage" long term service--which is a theme that is really starting to surface as folks are trying to get out now, thanks to our fun in the sun overseas. No, you can't have benefits, and we're going to keep them at the previous levels until you decide to go back and stay in the service.

It is shameful how we're treating our vets already, and this sort of thing only dishonors the folks who have chosen to serve willingly.

John McCain should win the election because he's wrecked more airplanes than anyone alive.

John McCain will put the national interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. If John McCain is elected President, the era of the permanent campaign will end. The era of problem solving will begin.

/is also mailing McCain his cereal box UPC

Operation Chaos: Last cycle, it was 'John Kerry, who served in Vietnam', 'Three purple hearts' and 'reporting for duty'.

This time around its, "Let's ridicule the POW."



There's no hate like liberal hateTM...

Are you farking kidding me? The only reason Kerry lost was because of his record on Nam and the 15 second video clip of him tossing his medals over a fence.

hubiestubert: It is shameful how we're treating our vets already, and this sort of thing only dishonors the folks who have chosen to serve willingly.

Blame the current administration for that. When you're in fighting condition they'll come and praise you. When you're no longer able to fight, they'll let you become homeless or stick you in a vet clinic with rats and roaches and pee on the walls.

If McCain cared about the vets he should have gotten his old senile ass to vote today. Either a Yeah and a Nay vote would have shown he had principles!

randomjsa: The Democrats are the ones that spent the 2004 election season harping about how war veterans make better presidents. I wondered at the time where they were in 92 and 96 but it's ok, they have the chance in 2008 to vote for a war veteran... Which I'm sure they will because they themselves said a war veteran makes the best president in 2004.

Yeah, and in 2004, the Republicans spent the whole cycle talking about how Veteran Status didn't matter.

But even better than that?

They spent the entire cycle ranting and Raving about what an egregious sin "Flip-Flopping" was, and how no politician who can so blatantly flip-flop on so many issues could EVER be president.

So, you know, now they have the very same opportunity to not vote for a ridiculously egregious flip-flopper. Shiat, Compared to McCain, Kerry looked like a Steadfast decision maker grounded in a concrete foundation of principle.

RevMercutio: coma: This is a silly argument that is easy to settle.

Everyone who supports the troops raise their hands... really Mr. McCain? I must say I'm a little surprised and quite disappointed.

I'm going straight to hell for laughing at that.

/Therefore, I'm bringing the rum.

hey, i saw what you did there.

/i laughed so i think i'm going to hell too.
/meh, i'm easy, i've got friends in both places.

FetusAGoGo: John McCain will put the national interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. If John McCain is elected President, the era of the permanent campaign will end. The era of problem solving will begin.

Ironic that McCain defied the first part of his spamming point by not voting on the GI Bill.

randomjsa: If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.

So by your idea, every war veteran is the same? Gotcha. You're a moron.

Operation Chaos: farkityfarker: "Wah, wah, I was a POW" isn't going to stop Americans from voting in change in their own interest.


More liberal hate.

What's amazing about this is the fact that McCain is a liberal! He's just not as much of a liberal as the hard-left B. Hussein Obama. Thus, he must be hated.

G. W. Bush is a liberal too - big time. But he wasn't as liberal as Gore or Kerry (who served in Vietnam), and so he is 'Hitler'.

I disagree, I see them as too conservative.

RobbieFal: McCain's hatred for Obama is going to make the debates a lot of fun. Obama has really produced some interesting moments so far, like causing McCain go to on a 1100 rant in response to criticism.

Obama is going to send McCain into fits of hysteria in the debates. I'm looking forward to it.

It's always so much fun when the elite, such as McCain and Clinton, who thought that their positions were secure for life, get challenged by reality.

randomjsa: If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.

Operation Chaos: Last cycle, it was 'John Kerry, who served in Vietnam', 'Three purple hearts' and 'reporting for duty'.

This time around its, "Let's ridicule the POW."



There's no hate like liberal hateTM...

randomjsa: If you had May 22nd marked as the day Democrats showed their hypocritical nature for the 500th time this election then you win.

Democrats 2004: A war veteran would make a vastly superior president.

Democrats 2008: Forget that we said in 2004, clearly a persons status as a war veteran shouldn't mean anything.


Are you high or stupid? If McCain cared about this bill he should have gone and voted. Either FOR or AGAINST the bill. He chose not to vote for one simple reason: Come November hos AGAINST vote would hurt him in the red-states. By not voting he can say "I was not against the GI bill".

Get a clue asshat.

Ehhh...since it's been mentioned.

1992- R served
1996- R served
2000- R and D served
2004- R served- D served in combat
2008- R served

The last Democrat president that served was Carter. The last Republican that served was Bush.

It'd be nice to have a president that's actually killed a man. Haven't had that since Bush 41.

Operation Chaos: Last cycle, it was 'John Kerry, who served in Vietnam', 'Three purple hearts' and 'reporting for duty'.

This time around its, "Let's ridicule the POW."



There's no hate like liberal hateTM...

Yeah, just wait til we break out the purple bandaids.

Dammit!

I picked June 3rd.

I should have kept Memorial Day weekend in mind.

John McCain will put his personal interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to improve John McCain's job approval rating. If John McCain is elected President, he will crush his enemies. On January 20th, The era of John McCain will begin.

/You mean I don't get Maverick Straight Talk points for posting a variant on the sample post?

The First: hubiestubert: It is shameful how we're treating our vets already, and this sort of thing only dishonors the folks who have chosen to serve willingly.

Blame the current administration for that. When you're in fighting condition they'll come and praise you. When you're no longer able to fight, they'll let you become homeless or stick you in a vet clinic with rats and roaches and pee on the walls.

If McCain cared about the vets he should have gotten his old senile ass to vote today. Either a Yeah and a Nay vote would have shown he had principles!

Pretty much my point.