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Slime-Time Begins Against McCain
January 15, 2008 7:23 PM
Eight years ago, then-Gov. George W. Bush and his allies dragged Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his family through the mud as their competed in the South Carolina GOP primary.
It's starting again...
An anti-McCain flier has been mailed to the voters of this state, seeking to undercut his military record. From a mysterious group called "Vietnam Veterans Against McCain."
On side one (see it HERE), an unflattering cartoon of the senator as a Vietnam War POW. The sign to his cell reads: "McCain Headquarters," with political signs tossed on the floor reading: "McCain: I'm a Hero" and "McCain: Elect Me" Graffiti on the cell walls read: "Hanoi Hilton," "Songbird" and "An Enormous Crime, the POWs I Helped Leave Behind," "Elect Me, elect me, elect me, "POW for President," "The Rabbit Hurt Me, the Cat Broke Me, But Bui Tin Loved Me."
Pretty nasty stuff.
The other side of the flier (read it HERE) assails McCain's record as a pilot, and says "For years McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned Congressman, turned US Senator has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot and his collaborations with the enemy to become America's POW hero presidential candidate."
McCain ally and former POW Orson Swindle slammed the allegations, saying that while "the group claims that John McCain turned his back on his fellow POWs in order to save his own skin...Nothing could be further from the truth. I know because I was there.
"The truth is, the North Vietnamese offered John McCain early release, and he refused. He stuck to the time honored military code of first-in, first-out, and stood by his fellow POWs until the end -- even at the risk of his own life as he was severely injured..."
It goes on from there.
Things get nasty in South Carolina.
- jpt
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Share | User Comments (27)
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The only lies I remember coming out of the south with any regularity were from Little Rock, Arkansas. Saying the north is full of liars goes without saying.
Posted by: Mark Parsons | Jan 15, 2008 9:43:46 PM
Some want to blame fellow Republicans for this smear, but I think we should wait to see who really did it. You know dirty politics have been a way of life in this country ever since the founding of the country. It is always hard to challenge these kinds of dirty tricks this close to an election and if one tries then your time to get out your message is compromised. I will say that I have never heard of any of his fellow inmates make any of these charges, so I think they are lies and don't give them a second thought. The swift boat charges against Kerry had some legs as a lot of those guys were serving at the same time.
Posted by: Jim from KC | Jan 15, 2008 9:32:09 PM
Registered independent...We need real change in DC. Very few of the candidates offer that. McCain is an old "inside the belt-way" pro-politician who claims he wants to bring jobs back to Michigan/USA. Let's examine some facts: He voted for NAFTA, for GATT, for CAFTA and recently voted against the repeal of subsidies which reward US companies to move across our borders. These are facts! He lies, he talks out of both sides of his mouth. But sadly, most of our politicians do the same. He's got nothing new, if he wants to make a change why doesn't he start the repeal process of the agreements? Just Facts that people refuse to open their eyes and minds to. Think about it!
Posted by: Bucknut5 | Jan 15, 2008 8:55:38 PM
Wow, that is so dispicable. If opposition wants to attack Senator McCain then they should attack him on his veiws or record in Washington. Personally, those comments are proof of what I do not like about politics today.
Posted by: Megan | Jan 15, 2008 8:48:08 PM
Slime-time against McCain. My god! I'm not even a McCain supporter but I am a true blue American and a democrat (small 'd') and this sort of crap appalls me as it should every other true blue American. The folks who do this, 'power at any cost', right-wingers, corporate entitlement types, scared to death that their pawns in DC might lose the stranglehold they currently have on the executive branch as well as the Congress, never mind the Supreme Court, are those whose citizenship should be terminated. That South Carolina hootch must be pretty vile stuff, crippling as it clearly does, fairness, decency, honesty and all other virtues as well as brain cells.
Posted by: ken t | Jan 15, 2008 8:35:40 PM
I want to hear the other side as well,
let them have their say; if the allegations are lies they should be easy to shoot down.Any proof? Deceit seeks the darkness in which to hide,the thruth loves the light of day(something like that).
Posted by: johnny | Jan 15, 2008 8:28:08 PM
Is there something basically, deeply wrong with the South? The ease that that region lies and accepts lies is amazing. Predictable as flies on a Moon Pie...the South will get dirty and malicious without batting an eye.
Posted by: Lee_USA | Jan 15, 2008 8:25:07 PM
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