I've been waiting for someone to post this. LOL!

He doesn't bother with breath mints because he was POW for 5.5 years.

What a manipulative old jerk. Grandpa probably told Cindy that POW shit on their first date just to get some pity pussy.

Who cut off Dowd's koolade supply? That was almost sane.

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.

LOL he has so lost the election...

I saw on Huffpo Chris Matthews fighting with Hillary supporters who were SPEWING hate hate hate hate!!!

I tried calling in sick today because McCain was a pow. Didn't work :(

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.

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.

McPOW ?

McCain is 71 years old because he was a POW for 5.5 years. It all makes perfect sense now.

Spickle @ 9:

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.

Ooh, that was vicious, but nice!

How in the hell are the polls tied? Who wants this idiot?

Click for image:
Noun, Verb, P.O.W.!

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:

Like Cindy Sheehan, John McCain has Absolute Moral Authority to say that anytime he feels like telling it.

Hey doofus, I didn't know McSame lost a child!

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.

Hotdog_Face @ 17:

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.

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!

General Jack D. Ripper @ 23:

Spickle @ 9:

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.

Ooh, that was vicious, but nice!

POW!

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.

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?

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?

Rudy has nine one one, McPOW has pee oh double you.

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.

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.

timothy @ 25:

How in the hell are the polls tied? Who wants this idiot?

national polls dont mean squat

lets see the polls for electoral votes

i believe that obama still leads by a wide margin

the reason he talks about being a pow so often, is the media has an orgasm every time he mentions it.

pissed off patricia @ 33:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 56:

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

EarthAbides @ 61:

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

researcher @ 20:

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.

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.

Hey, you can't criticize this man for overusing the POW card - he was a POW!

Doggiebobo @ 30:

dennis @ 26:
<blockquote John McCain has Absolute Moral Authority to say that anytime he feels like telling it.

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.

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!

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.

Sherrell @ 85:

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!

I'd love too, link please

supremecourtjester @ 86:

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?

Hahahahaha. Hilarious!

He really is becoming a joke with this POW stuff. Very much like Giulliani with his constant 9-11 talk.

Reminds me of the story regarding George Washington that was told by Parson Weems.

When George Washington's father caught the future President standing by the cherry tree with a hatchet in his hand, George Washington replied "Father, I cannot tell a lie....but let me preface my explanation first by mentioning that I was held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years...."

Quite "presidential", Senator.

In the States if you take a stupid asshole and you put him in a uniform what do you get ? An american hero...

If you do the same in other countries what do you get ? A stupid asshole wearing a uniform...

I wonder how this POW mantra goes over with vets. Most vets I know wouldn't even talk about their experiences, let alone use them as a lifelong crutch and means of advancement.

Go McCain!!

dennis @ 83:

Doggiebobo @ 30:

dennis @ 26:
<blockquote John McCain has Absolute Moral Authority to say that anytime he feels like telling it.

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.

You've been watching to much of Dennis Miller's shtick skippy.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 94:

Chicken Hussein Little - NOT!! @ 63:

Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 56:

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

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.

in all fairness...he brought the guy with him to a highschool in az

this wasnt just an endorsement

the vid is up on youtube

the rapper is the dude who does gasolina...and mccain was proud as punch to get his endorsement and introduce him to the crowd

i wanna see the guy perform at the rnc...and i want him to bring his hoochies and his gat

Well that is certainly a different kettle of fish........never mind.

pinkobait @ 104:

Kerri @ 101:

Go McCain!!

Yes...to Hell.

....Or back to captivity.

I'm always amused how right-wingers call anyone with a social conscience a "liberal pussy", but are unafraid to play a compassion or pity card (to the point of absurdity) when they campaign. Giuliani and McCain are good examples.

*POW*

Reminds of the onomatopoeia flashes in the old Batman series. Someone should do a cartoon with McCain as Batman with the *POW* coming off his fist, etc. Maybe Holy Joe as Robin?

Stop using the term POW and start calling him a "former detainee" or "prison camp survivor" if he wants to play the victimn, give him the victimn terminology.

The POW card is the only one they have to play.

Because he sucks on every conceivable level - even his military service - if it is actually examined. It doesn't qualify him for dog-catcher.
*

Yes. That's what his status should be referred to. Not then, but now. McCain is a P.O.Dubya of the Iraq war...

Rachel has it on the nose. What a JOKE McCain has turned his POW vacation into. laughable.

McPOW repeatedly giving the same non-answer to this brought to mind the SNL Bush/Dukakis debate.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88adebate.phtml

Interviewer: How many houses do you have?
John M: I spent 5 1/2 years without a house.
I: How would you solve the health care crisis?
JM: When I was a POW I didn't have any health care.
I: Do you have any plans on how to jump start the economy?
JM: Someone who spends 24 hours a day in a cell as a POW, like I did, needs to concentrate on survival.

patty buck is a tool! one minute he's issuing a five-alarm alert against mcBooshWars; next, he's giving a pass to mcPOW-PTSD.

Doggiebobo @ 68:

slappy magoo @ 59:

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.

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.

I have heard several talking heads today asking if McCain is using the POW thing too much. So if they're talking about it, the Obama campaign won't have to. Not that I think they ever would. His campaign is too smart for that and I don't think Obama would let them if they wanted to. That's just not Obama's style.

Thank the Good Lord for Rachel Maddow. Her commentary is so refreshing and honest.

OK, if McCain were to go out drunk-drive, hit, maim/kill a person, is it OK to say, "Aw, he was a POW. Give him some leeway." WTF is the matter with people? POW to McCain is like 9-11 to Giuliani. Enough is enough. You cannot blame everything on that. What's going to happen if he screwed up even more so than Bush, which I think could very well happen with his dementia? Are we going to tell the world, "Oh, he was a POW. Give him a break." The Repuglican party offends me at every level, on every sense. If he gets in, we are so F'd.

Kerri @ 101:

Go McCain!!

Ladies and gents, I give you a typical American scoreboard watcher and a republican-in-good-standing. Rousing chants of easy-to-remember barks such as "USA! USA!" or "Go McCain!!", dismissive marginalization of opponents, and bumper sticker talking points all wrapped in a win-at-all-costs attitude are its favorite means of communication. This one appears to favor items #1 and #3.

Bonkers @ 129:

Kerri @ 101:

Go McCain!!

Ladies and gents, I give you a typical American scoreboard watcher and a republican-in-good-standing. Rousing chants of easy-to-remember barks such as "USA! USA!" or "Go McCain!!", dismissive marginalization of opponents, and bumper sticker talking points all wrapped in a win-at-all-costs attitude are its favorite means of communication. This one appears to favor items #1 and #3.

Be fair. Perhaps she meant: Please John McCain, go.

pissed off patricia @ 126:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 124:

pissed off patricia @ 33:

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.

Nice story! A pleasant surprise.

This woman was all a twitter when the Terri Schiavo thing was going on. She went nuts when they took her off life support.

She and I are big animal lovers so that's what forges our friendship

Caring people come from all sides. Self-discovery is a wonderful thing at any point in life. Perhaps she will view all things more critically now, and not mistake "Conservative" with the exclusive right to CONSERVE the American way to live?

I can't wait to read this site on Nov 5th when I hear Obama utter the word "Concede".

The Democrats could have won. But the party has been high-jacked by the extreme left.

John McCain will be the next President of the United States. Nothing can stop that now.

Maddow might not like the POW card but she better learn to love it. McCain's war hero status resonates with millions of Americans who remain eternally grateful for his sacrifice in service of his country. Those folks will vote for him in November.

Grateful for what, exactly orcas@137? Did he save any lives? no. but he did crash four of the taxpayers' planes and set fire to one of our aircraft carriers. He was caught and the enemy had to save his life after he injured himself by not properly tucking in his arms and legs when punching out of his plane. None of his actions make him a hero. Lucky, maybe, but not a hero.

"My Friends,I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that voting booth, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this great nation, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must Vote Republican, my friends!"

sorry about that first post.

Hotdog_Face @ 17:

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.

Well said Hotdog Face. Too bad the media didn't bring that up last night when talking about his appearance on Leno.

Will some one plkease expose John McCain as the traitor he is. He was a songbird in the POW camp and he did have a chair a table tv and everything that comes with being an informer

Will some prominent journalist please re-ask McCain all the questions to which he's used the POW dodge to not answer.

The journalist should then say, Mr. McCain, will you please now answer the questions without referring in any way to your POW experience. Many people notice that you use it altogether too often, which makes you appear to be trying to shut down discussion and avoid giving honest answers.

Let me get this straight. Are you saying that John McCain was a POW?

I hadn't realized.