Tonight Show: McCain plays POW card again
By SilentPatriot Monday Aug 25, 2008 3:00pm
I swear the McCain campaign has made the conscious decision to play the POW card at every turn, practically begging the Democrats to call him out on it. There's no other way to explain their strategy. McCain didn't cheat at Saddleback because he was a POW thirty years ago. Alan Keyes couldn't call out his inconsistency on abortion because he was a POW. You can't call him out of touch on economic issues when he forgets how many houses he owns because he was a POW. You can't mock his taste in music, because he was a POW. What are they going to use it on next?
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LENO: "For a million dollars, how many houses do you have?"
SEN. McCAIN: "Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell," McCain said. "I didn't have a house. I didn't have a kitchen table. I didn't have a table. I didn't have a chair. And I didn't spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out."
Responding to the news last night while covering the convention, Rachel Maddow schooled Pat Buchanan on why McCain is running the risk of degrading his very salient and personal past into a "punch line."
Even Maureen Dowd gets it:
"It's hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of an American Express black card. His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength - and making a mockery of his already dubious claim that he's reticent to talk about his P.O.W. experience - by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters and TV advertisements."
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I've been waiting for someone to post this. LOL!
A Noun, A Verb, P.O.W.!
A Noun, A Verb, P.O.W.!
A Noun, A Verb, P.O.W.!
A Noun, A Verb, P.O.W.!
A Noun, A Verb, P.O.W.!
He doesn't bother with breath mints because he was POW for 5.5 years.
In my humble opinion, we just need to let him talk and the ridicule will follow. He will soon be taking the Rudy path. By the way Rudy, how did that work out for you?
What a manipulative old jerk. Grandpa probably told Cindy that POW shit on their first date just to get some pity pussy.
He is a caricature of himself.
Who cut off Dowd's koolade supply? That was almost sane.
this is all he's got. he doesn't want the job, he wants the title.
The McCain campaign keeps emphasizing that McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam, as proof of his qualification for the Presidency.
Well, so was Gary Glitter, and I'm not voting for him either.
Send the motherfucker back to Viet Nan and in a prision cell, since that is ALL
the SOB has to blabber about...at least he'd know how many houses he had.
Stupid asshole makes me puke...
LOL he has so lost the election...
I saw on Huffpo Chris Matthews fighting with Hillary supporters who were SPEWING hate hate hate hate!!!
Person Of Wealth
I tried calling in sick today because McCain was a pow. Didn't work :(
I can see it now:
Media: Why did you order the launch of our ICBMs, without cause, which started WWIII and kill over 2 billion people to date?
McCain: Hey I was a POW for five-and-a-half years, what do you want from me, sanity?
You know who you can't count on to call McCain on his "noun, verb, my friends, POW" schtick? (I haven't seen 'my friends' included in all the other comments...it belongs there and you know it)
The 160+ men who died on the Forrestal when John Flyboi McCain wet started his jet because he's an impatient hot headed show off.
When I watch this clip, I can't help but think of all the damage this guy has done to our country. I'm not too familiar with the old guy he's interviewing, however.
John McCain HAD a house and kitchen table for the 5 1/2 years he was a POW. He also had a wife who took care of his kids, and kept the home fires burning for him while he was in captivity. He came home, and then WALKED OUT ON THEM.
He has no honor.
He has no loyalty.
he has no family values.
John McCain is an opportunist, and when he got taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese hit the jackpot. He has been cashing in on that jackpot for 26 years.
The Manchurian Candidate speaks and the sheeple clap.
McPOW ?
it an imperialist country that makes war heros out of their soldiers the POW thing works.
instead of blaming mc cain we must look at the system that created this imperialist country
as iraq vietnam was an illegal war for profits and we make a hero out of a pilot that bombed women and children who was shot down
until americans see the fallacy of their capitalistic system nothing much will change
even the liberals are imperialists yet we continue to blame politicans for a system failure
organizations do the same thing blame people and not change the system
americans want capitalism and borrow from communists socialists and kings to make it work and even brag about how great it is with 47 million without health insureance
oh did I mention we have stole every dollar of society security money to make it appear as it is working.
this is one dumb country when it comes to world affairs and economic systems
but I must give credit where credit is due we americans do know how to shop till we drop and the world will keep lending us money so they can sell their stuff to us.
McCain is 71 years old because he was a POW for 5.5 years. It all makes perfect sense now.
Caliber "Hussein" @ 15:
Oh, McLame's "my friends" is now being replaced with the tired old crap of.." now,
in all seriousness" and/or "I'll have my staff get back wity you." BSing asshole.
Spickle @ 9:
Ooh, that was vicious, but nice!
Excuse me, I'm confused. Was McDoofus the only US military person to be taken POW in Vietnam? If not, are all his fellow POWs being excused from taking responsibility for their words and actions because of their experience? Are ALL ex-POWs allowed to lie, prevaricate and behave badly with impunity as a result of their experiences? Seems like this is an angle the Dems could use for some pretty devastating ads featuring ex-POWS who have taken responsibility for their lives IN SPITE of the horrific experience.
How in the hell are the polls tied? Who wants this idiot?
[Deleted. This is a thread about John McCain-Sitemonitor] John McCain has Absolute Moral Authority to say that anytime he feels like telling it.
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Noun, Verb, P.O.W.!
McPain ?
If he wants to use his 5 & 1/2 years as a POW as an excuse as to why his brain is toast and that is why he can't remember how many houses he has or why he can't remember what his position is on abortion or why all his history is a blur and he can't sort out one date from another then fine. We should all leave him alone to live out his final day in peace. As for voting for him for president then not only no but HELL NO!
dennis @ 26:
Yeah, that true. However, sure wish he'd use it in a more appropriate environment
or in context. You know, like when sitting on the pot and taking a shit. They go
together wonderfully well...and both stink.
dennis @ 26:
Hey doofus, I didn't know McSame lost a child!
Chicken Hussein Little - NOT!! @ 24:
And they are ALL qualified to be pResident.
You got it !
I just got off the phone talking to a friend who in so many ways is very conservative. I had never mentioned politics to her because she's a good friend and I didn't want to start a riff between the two of us. She was talking about the housing market and all that is about. Then to my surprise and she said, If that damned John McCain becomes our next president, I'm going to throw up my hands and give up. So I had to ask, does the fact that he was a POW mean anything to you. She answered, Hell no! She said, so he was a victim of war, how does that qualify him to be the president. Lots of men were POWs. so what?
Needless to say I was smiling when we ended our conversation.
You know, what's even worse about this, other than the POW crap, is that most normal people would likely make fun of the question. What McCain did was exactly the same thing he did at the Saddleback forum....he didn't answer the question, not even with a joke, but instead used standard stump speech talk.
Unfortunately, both at Saddleback and on Leno's show last night, people clapped loudly when he gave this standard answer to a question he otherwise didn't answer.
McCain is very much like Bush in this regard.....can't answer a question properly but uses canned answers his handlers tell him....and it's scary and depressing that his handlers are Neocons and ex-Rove associates.
Hotdog_Face @ 17:
You make a valid point although I wouldn't necessarily call "..being taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese" hitting the jackpot! Calling out the GOP and Sen. McCain on his POW/get out of gaffe card is okay but there is still the fact that he was a POW. But like many others, it should not be played with every hand. Everyone knows the story even the cross in the dirt (which may not be factual), if they would say nothing, they'd speak volumes. But, they just can't shut up!
Could somone post a clip of Rachel Maddow schooling Pat Buchanan on this topic? I cannot watch another clip of Grampy McPOW running his tired-assed 5 and a half year schtick (again, my friends).
What a douche bag
General Jack D. Ripper @ 23:
POW!
Major Mel Funkshun @ 7:
Almost. Meanwhile, someone needs to figure out how to muzzle Ed Rendell. That sonofabitch is doing everything in his power to cost the Democrats this election--in the hope of being Hillary's vp in 2012.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/26/rendell_compares_o...
Here's a message for you, Ed: she supports the god-damned nominee! Get that through your cheesesteak-eating fat head. Do you think your vocal derision of Obama helps Democrats' chances? Asshat.
John McCain is a LIAR
Last night on the Jay Leno show John McCain lied to millions of American people. He claimed when he was in the POW camp he had no kitchen table however that was not true. He had a family back in the United States, and they sat at the very kitchen table he claimed didn’t exist.
I wonder if his attempt to spin his inability to know how many houses his Rich wife has bought is also bleeding into his desire to hide the fact he had a family back in the United States which he abandoned when he cheated on his wife and divorced her for a much younger richer woman.
He claims so much because of his POW status, however for his wife and children who suffered here when he was over there, he seemed very willing to throw them away as yesterdays news, and now wants people to forget. Is that why he lied and claimed he didn’t have a kitchen table because then people won’t think about the family he abandoned just HIM …. always him.
McCain needs to stop using his POW status because it has a very seedy side, and his claims of a free pass falls flat when one thinks of how he is twisting the truth to fit his campaign needs.
John McCain: 40 Years ago I was a POW for 5 1/2 years, My friends,this has caused me to fart in public while singing Yankee Doodle Dandy. Everytime someone sings Yankee Doodle, I cant stop farting.
I think McCain has really taken this story too far.
Let me get this straight, John:
You were held for five and half years in beautiful, sunny Hanoi. You obviously weren't tortured, since your organs are all intact and you're still alive. You were held in so-called "stress positions" that even Donald Rumsfeld could easily endure.
And yet you were driven to suicide? Why? From what I read, you were treated humanely and only subject to a little harsh interrogation and some high-spirits fraternity-style hazing.
Seems like no big deal to me. Seems like a real leader would have been able to handle it. Hell, even Donald Rumsfeld can stand for four or five hours at a time.
Why so pussy, John?
dennis @ 26:
Cheap Dennis. Sheehan was certainly a greater "Moral Authority" than that lying sack of shit murderer(Cindy's son included amongst those murdered) that you love so much, Dubya.
how did cindy's father build a biz after ww2? the gi bill
a gi bill that needed to be improved, and mcasshole voted against it
and he still didnt answer the question
btw, why is he allowed to be proud to have married into money, but kerry was supposed to be ashamed of it?
dennis @ 26:
Must have missed Cindy blaming all her bad behavior, forgetfulness and flipflopping on the loss of her son. But Dennis you are such as stickler for accuracy that I know you're going to provide me with links to justify your totally ignorant comment. Right skippy?
Rudy has nine one one, McPOW has pee oh double you.
POW. POW POW! McCain POW POW!
So McCain was a POW...so what! There were lots of guys who were POW's. Some were good guys. Some were just grunts. Getting caught by an enemy in a war certainly does not distinguish somebody, make them some kind of a "hero", or make them qualified for political office.
Would someone please ask him, so being a POW for 5 and a half years makes it OK to streal from the poor and give to the rich?
Using the Bush administration guidelines he was never tortured, he just experienced enhanced interrogation. It seems to me the vets that actually fought the war and didn't just lie around a prison cell for 5.5 years are the real heros.
What's the bet the theme at the Republican convention will be, "Barack Hussein Obama is the Devil. John Sidney McCain died for our sins."?
And the MSM and retards watching will eat it up.
timothy @ 25:
national polls dont mean squat
lets see the polls for electoral votes
i believe that obama still leads by a wide margin
dennis @ 26:
sure he can
and we have absolute moral authority to bring out the pows who were with mccain who say that he sold out to the enemy
right?
the reason he talks about being a pow so often, is the media has an orgasm every time he mentions it.
Democratsrule @ 31:
pissed off patricia @ 33:
POP: Thanks for report....So there is some "hope" for some on the other side of the
aisle...Probably very, very few, but just a bit of encouragment nevertheless.
btw...when is this site gonna cover the fact that mccain just got endorsed by a rapper that likes to sing about shooting people and raping women?
ive been waiting for fox to cover it...but not a peep
Yeah - well Mr McCain, lemme tell ya, I grew up in a HUGE family repleat with disabilities, stuffed into a TINY house in the industrial hellzone of NJ, beaten daily by abusive crazy parents, and I know EXACTLY how many homes I own.
He was POW forty years ago! What has happened in those forty years? How many POWs are homeless and sleeping under a bridge? McSame is a continuation of the Bush Crime Family, therefore, McSame is a thug.
I'm in no position to advise anyone on anything, but I hope the Obama campaign treads lightly on this matter. Yes, it needs to be addressed, in no uncertain terms, but in their clumsy way, the McCain campaign is dangling this issue like a carrot, hoping Obama's team will jump all over it, but do so clumsily. They know there's a great amount of goodwill generated by McCain's POW status, and they will not only go to that well as often as they can, but distort any attack on their use of McCain's POW status to be an attack on McCain's POW status itself. Not like I'm saying anything you all don't know, they've done this before, and now with increasing frequency. It really is, in their eyes, like holding your wallet out to a homeless man, hoping he'll try to take it so you can stab him in the back and claim self-defense. So by all means, let's talk about McCain's POW status, and what it means for his candidancy, his abilities to lead. But let's make sure we're not total dicks about it, which is what the McCainiacs hope we do, and will accuse of doign even if we're not. Make it seem like we're all anti-veteran, and thus anti-military, and then no criticism from the left seems valid. An obvious trap, one easily avoided, let's hope Obama & his team remains as smart as they've been and cut this talking point to ribbons without coming across as dismissing McCain's service. They've done a great job doing so thus far, which is why McCain's team keep trying it, hoping sooner or later a mistake will be made.
So what? The racist fuckbags that live in Amurka's heartlands are still going to vote against Obama. Showing how McSame's campaign is run by a bunch of morons won't change a damn thing in November.
/cynic
A huge majority of the Obama supporters use cell phones (why else did they do the text message?). Polls don't contact cell phones. I would say the poll results are skewed by 2 to 1. The Obama camp probably know this but because of voter fraud will not talk about this so that Karl won't try to siphon off more votes.
this is a subtle way of making fun/criticizing the dems.
who dared say he uses the POW card. this has a way of empowering those that support him especially the demographic(s) that don't much or any related issues but support him just because of his perceived brand. they think they know what they're going to get. maybe i'm reading to much into this....but i feel we need to get back to the comparison to bush&economy.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 56:
In all fairness McLame has no more control over who endorses him than Obama has. Naturally that makes no difference to the freaks at FAUX News but it's the truth. I'd much rather have his military adventures and his fun with the Keating 5 fully vetted. Don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to take on that responsibility.
Well, anyone that falls for this load of crapola deserves what they vote for.
It's hard to believe that 5 years in a POW camp is becoming an SNL skit in front of our eyes, thanks to John McBush.
When are we going to see the GOP claiming we are all America haters for pointing out the obvious use of a personal nightmare for an all encompassing get out of trouble card.
Tag @ 65:
Actually SNL could do a skit about using the POW card for every excuse in his life and skewer McCain
Obama could just say he has no control over the writers and actors on SNL ....................
Cindy: "John, don't piss out the window, use the potty."
John: "Cindy, you c*nt, when I was a POW I didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of."
slappy magoo @ 59:
I think we all hear you....and maybe there is another way of attacking his glorious
and wonderful service to our country. Like the DNC/Obama/Biden going after McLame's
official voting record while in the U.S. Senate on Veterans benefits/health insurance,
etc....BUT, WHEN are they going to start such a campaign? Seems to me that we do
have adequate ammuniation to attack, however, as per usual, Dems seem oh soooooo
slow in firing a round.
dennis@26
dennis,
I love the way the sitemonitor left your bullshit comment hanging. Although edited, you still probably stand by it. Enjoy your ass kicking tonight.
maybe if we started 9/11ing the 9/11, then we wouldnt have to 9/11 or 9/11 'does the 9/11 fit?'
or POW, whatever works...
EarthAbides @ 61:
Exactly, My parents even ended their land line phone for cell phones exclusively. And with caller ID, the onlyones who answer those calls are window lickers who have no life. aka, republican douchebags who claim they are Ddems and skew the polls.
The polls do not call cell phones and that is where a majority of younger voters and my parents get their calls.
John McCain was always this way. here he pulls the same crap to stop the sister of an MIA questioning his end search for POW/MIAs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CazKanlYDg&eurl=http://www.vietnamvetera...
McCain was a POW over 40 YEARS AGO! Has he not learned anything new or had any new ideas or thoughts since then?? Gimme a break.
Clif @ 66:
John could say " I did not get to see SNL for 5 years when i was a POW in Vietnam".
SEN. McCAIN: “Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell where I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a chair. And I spent those five-and-a-half years dreaming, Jay...and planning....and when I did get out, as fast as I could, I dumped my crippled wife and kids who faithfully waited those five and a half years, and I hooked my ass up with a beer heiress half my age who had a smoking hot bod and more houses than a friggin' monopoly game....after all, THAT's the Conservitive American Dream, Jay.”
Poor poor Cindy.
"Hey Cindy, can you give a ****** again..Comeon, I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell blah blah"
Is this what Americans really want? After 8 years of absolutely no judgement or accountability on the part of the Executive Branch, here's another half-senile, half-crazy, spoiled, rich, white guy who blames every lie, every inconsistency, every gaffe and every memory lapse on his time as a POW. That, "my friends," IS scarier than Bush, who got a free pass without even having a go-to excuse.
I like how a commenter at Daily Kos said it:
"Thanks to McCain, POW is now a verb."
I'm thinking of making it my email signature.
researcher @ 20:
While you're out shopping pick up some capitals and a package of punctuation marks. You must be a lame reseacher if you've never encountered them.
``And besides, my name is Eldon Smith! And get off my lawns! ''
Hey, you can't criticize this man for overusing the POW card - he was a POW!
peace @ 78:
lol
Either that, or it stands for Prisoner Of W.
Doggiebobo @ 30:
Yeah, that true. However, sure wish he'd use it in a more appropriate environment
or in context. You know, like when sitting on the pot and taking a shit. They go
together wonderfully well...and both stink.
Ease up, Doggie. Was being somewhat sarcastic. I don't know why McCain is continuing this line, especially after MoDo's article, which he surely read. He has to be doing it to bait Joe Biden. He knows Biden can't resist.
Then when we does, McCain play the part of the Jersey Girls to Biden's Ann Coulter imitation; the Michael J. Fox to Biden's Rush Limbaugh part...along with highlighting his military service and sacrifice in contrast to Obama and Biden's not having served.
Otherwise, I would agree he's got a mental defect.
Joe Biden has a much deeper story than McCain. 98% of parents would most likely choose to spend 5 years in a POW camp rather than lose a spouse and daughter in a car crash.
Watching Morning Joe (don't know why) but was pleasantly suprised when David Shuster called out Joe Scarbrough on his crap! Check it out...it was priceless...he didn't have a comeback so he resorted to personal insults. and as always...the rest of the panel remained silent!
McCain? A former prisoner of war? Gee, I had no idea. When did that happen? Was he fighting for the North or the South? Was he at Andersonville?
When is someone going to tell him that a lot of people went through far worse than he ever did and they don't have seven fucking houses?? Most of 'em are lucky if they have one house.
Just watch. The Dem leadership will yield this ground to McCain and let the Cons beat them to death with it.
cg @ 81:
LOL, i get jokes.
Sherrell @ 85:
I'd love too, link please
POW? What happened to war criminal?
“I am a war criminal. I bombed innocent women and children.” - McCain on 60 Minutes, 1997
Get to know the
POWwar criminal here: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8806supremecourtjester @ 86:
Hahahahaha. Hilarious!
supremecourtjester @ 86:
He was fighting for the Cartheginians.
He really is becoming a joke with this POW stuff. Very much like Giulliani with his constant 9-11 talk.
Chicken Hussein Little - NOT!! @ 63: