Swiftboating, HuffyPot Style

This is a pretty stupid move. Lots of potential to backfire. People didn’t like Kerry personally, so it was easy to trash him. It’s a different story with McCain.

They acted, to my shock, more Republican than Republicans against Hillary.

Am I surprised they are behaving this way toward McCain?

Absolutely not.

Zebras don’t change their stripes.

This is a nasty bunch, this so-called Progressives.

I want nothing to do with them.

McCain should demand all the missing information about Obama like his medical records, copy of his original birth certificate, proof that he registered for civil service, copy of his old passports and Illinois State Senate records.
I think this will backfire especially since McCain has fellow POWs stumping for him.

What does this have to do with Obama or his campaign? Jeffrey Klein is a writer not affiliated with Obama in any way.

Just like Super Hillary Boosters Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Anne Coulter are not associated with Clinton.

I got this from a friend who was at the dinner. Now top this Bambi:

April 30, 2008;

It came to me while I was having dinner with Doris Day. No, not that Doris Day. The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton.

As we ate near the Days’ home in Florida recently, I heard things about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling. Moving because they told me things about him the American people need to know. And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of the most private individuals to run for president in history.

When it comes to choosing a president, the American people want to know more about a candidate than policy positions. They want to know about character, the values ingrained in his heart. For Mr. McCain, that means they will want to know more about him personally than he has been willing to reveal.

Mr. Day relayed to me one of the stories Americans should hear. It involves what happened to him after escaping from a North Vietnamese prison during the war. When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, “I told you I would make you a cripple.”

The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day’s will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm, and put him in a misshapen cast. This was done so that the arm would heal at “a goofy angle,” as Mr. Day explained. Had it done so, he never would have flown again.

But it didn’t heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint. Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day’s splint in place.

Years later, Air Force surgeons examined Mr. Day and complemented the treatment he’d gotten from his captors. Mr. Day corrected them. It was Dr. McCain who deserved the credit. Mr. Day went on to fly again.

Another story I heard over dinner with the Days involved Mr. McCain serving as one of the three chaplains for his fellow prisoners. At one point, after being shuttled among different prisons, Mr. Day had found himself as the most senior officer at the Hanoi Hilton. So he tapped Mr. McCain to help administer religious services to the other prisoners.

Today, Mr. Day, a very active 83, still vividly recalls Mr. McCain’s sermons. “He remembered the Episcopal liturgy,” Mr. Day says, “and sounded like a bona fide preacher.” One of Mr. McCain’s first sermons took as its text Luke 20:25 and Matthew 22:21, “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.” Mr. McCain said he and his fellow prisoners shouldn’t ask God to free them, but to help them become the best people they could be while serving as POWs. It was Caesar who put them in prison and Caesar who would get them out. Their task was to act with honor.

Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours. The torture so badly busted up his shoulders that to this day Mr. McCain can’t raise his arms over his head.

One night, a Vietnamese guard loosened his bonds, returning at the end of his watch to tighten them again so no one would notice. Shortly after, on Christmas Day, the same guard stood beside Mr. McCain in the prison yard and drew a cross in the sand before erasing it. Mr. McCain later said that when he returned to Vietnam for the first time after the war, the only person he really wanted to meet was that guard.

Mr. Day recalls with pride Mr. McCain stubbornly refusing to accept special treatment or curry favor to be released early, even when gravely ill. Mr. McCain knew the Vietnamese wanted the propaganda victory of the son and grandson of Navy admirals accepting special treatment. “He wasn’t corruptible then,” Mr. Day says, “and he’s not corruptible today.”

The stories told to me by the Days involve more than wartime valor.

If this moron only new what it takes to land an aircraft on a carrier.

If this moron only knew what it takes to land an aircraft on a carrier.

McCain spent 5 long years as a POW. He still bares the scars of the torture he endured.
It was wrong for Republicans to attack Kerry on his war record. And it is wrong for Democrats to go after McCain on his military service.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Off subject: Moveon is running 2 new ads: one has a women and child, talking about the war, the other a satire on why we should vote republican. They are targeting woman and DEMS who are saying they are voting REP.

The DNC is running scared.

Attempting to attack McCain on his military record will backfire. What has Obama ever done other than sit in a racist anti-American church for 20 years?

Seems to me that the Obamas think they are entitled to the presidency only because they are black.

Have these fools ever watched an NBA game? It is always the second guy who gets busted. Always. The Republicans did this in 2004. It was dreadful. Now, Obama and his fellow dips are retaliating with the same strategy. Just like in an NBA game they’ll be the ones that get busted. Instead of by a ref who misses the first infraction it will be by the American public who overlooked the first affront. Americans will be rightfully outraged and no amount of but, but, but Bush did it will temper their anger.

Yeah, they went “easy” on him–they broke his arms so he now has to have someone comb his hair for him, he can’t adjust his own collar, and they broke his teeth to expose the nerves and cause him excruciating pain. They left him without medical care for the broken bones in his leg, they beat him mercilessly. He still limps. He can’t put his arms above his head. His bones never knit properly. Despite that, he still exercises like a champion.

Oh, sure….they went “easy” on him.

McCain wasn’t going to make Flag Officer, because he was too aggressive, too brash and very impolitic. He was also “not happily married” and that is a block you have to check to get to the double scrambled eggs prom.

And he wasn’t the best flier either. But it wouldn’t have mattered if you had Neil Armstrong and the Ghost of Eddie Rickenbacker up there, the guy got SHOT DOWN. He wasn’t engaging in a dogfight.

I can’t believe they’re even going there. It’s pretty fucking SICK. And really, it’s STUPID. I can acknowledge that McCain is stubborn, bullish, stupid about some things, but I will never, ever, question his courage, his endurance, or his dedication to our country. These Obamabastards are incredibly STUPID. When they aren’t jeering at Granholm, they’re pointing and cawing at POW McCain. Way to further alienate the Democratic base.

BACKFIRE? This is going to fling shit all over them.

I never liked it when the Republicans would insult the Democrats by questioning their military patriotism. Here we’ve got a former rightwinger who, after dumping her gay rightwing husband, is posturing as a accented intellectual lefty and playing hostess to those who are hellbent on fulfilling those most EGREGIOUS stereotypes.

this is great that obama people are starting this crap — McCain will have no problem releasing his military records, the fact that he released 10,000 pages of medical records should be a sign to these goons that McCain has nothing to hide. as a veteran it pisses me off to no end that the Obama campaign would even dare to go near McCain’s military service. I think if Obama wants to play with fire, he should be burned so bad he never does it again

No matter what pro-Obama idiots say either here, magazine, newspapers, internet, television, we will not let him achieve the presidency of the United States. We will vote out all superdelegates up for re-election by casting our votes for their opponents no matter what party. This is the only way to take back our party and get rid of that thing Obama.

Look, just change the name of this blog to No Obama and be done with it.

I thought this blog was devoted to issues of security. Obviously, you’d prefer to have our nation’s security be in the hands of a President who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. Jesus, Liebermann’s not going to be around to whisper foreign policy advice all the time.

And it “doesn’t matter” how long we stay in Iraq? Color me not-secured.

And hey Larry, where’s that Michelle Whitey tape? Oh yeah, up your ass.

DeadEnder1DoesNotBiteAnyoneAnymore Said like a true dickless weasel of a chickenshit, chickenhawk obamazoid. F*CK you and your punk assed downlow dolly of a candidate obamalamadingdong.He’d shit his PANTS if anyone said BOO to him. In fact he probably shits his pants every time ms. dong says BOO to him. You and his domestic punk assed terrorist flag dancin buddy along with his racist asswipe of a preacher and louey farrakhan can go fuck yourselves

Do you know anything about “the fog of war?” It’s not black and white. I’ve met enough Korean and Vietnam vets to know. I’ve even met a vet from WWI.

Let’s say you’re right and McCain did “disobey orders”. He paid for it with five years of captivity and torture. Kind of a high price to pay for such a mistake huh? But for some folks no price is high enough. Hence the bitterness of some surviving veterans. In fact some of them told me that they felt people were sorry they didn’t die.

Military folks are not cardboard cut-out heroes. They’re human like everyone else.

If you’re looking for perfection keep looking. No human being on this planet could live up to that.
That’s one of the reasons I defended John Kerry so forcefully. He did what he could do given the situation he was in. He used his best human judgment. Maybe McCain did the same. I don’t know and unless you were there you don’t either. There were a lot of really well – stupid orders given out during Vietnam according to the vets I’ve met.

We are making the same mistake that the Republican Party made in 2000 and 2004. This fraudulent election is much, much, bigger than Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. This is part II of the hijacking of the United States government and America itself.

George Bush and Barack Obama are identical. Both are arrogant, inexperienced, simple-minded, egotistical politicians, selected for these very qualities, to acquire the office of the presidency. Bush’s family’s name and Obama’s personality disarmed/disarms their respective parties. Dick Cheney represented the power behind the thrown for Bush while David Alexrod is Obama’s puppet-master.

Real Republicans stood by paralyzed and, in disbelief, as neo-con named agents gutted and reformulated the party, the different branches of government, and the main stream media. This was Part I of seizing control of the largest economy and the mightiest military on earth.

Part II is unfolding before our very eyes this election cycle inside the Democratic Party. If these agents of global dominance succeed again, the American experience will have ended.

This isn’t about race, or class, or party, or gender, or even generational; this is about co-opting our near perfect union for selfish gain.
Are there enough Democrats who will stand up and stop this hijacking of our party?

Even though I am a partisan, just look at the Republican Party and compare it to what it was eight years ago. And, then, listen to long time Republicans who have been marginalized in their own party. Can’t you see the similarities?

If we fall for the obvious traps of race, gender, class, and so forth, instead of recognizing the real threat that’s invading our party, the republic will change into the most toxic Corporatocracy humanly imaginable.

The last days of America: being brought to you by the first Black President and the Democratic Party.

I’ve already read articles/campaign smear that McCain was a traitor and gave critical information to the VietCong. If the Obamatrons go after John McCain’s war record there will be a huge blowback and rightly so. We’re not going to witness a retreat like John Kerry, not wanting to dignify defamatory accusations, backstepping on fighting in his own behalf until the damage was serious and one more strike against his candidancy. It didn’t matter if the accusations were true or not [I thought the stories were garbage, absolute rot].

There was also some sort of rumor about McCain’s responsibility in setting a fire on one of the aircraft carriers. Totally bogus with film footage to back it up.

The Obamatrons have no idea who or what they’re dealing with. I’m sure the Republicans are just waiting in the wings and wringing their hands–bring it on, youngsters. Just bring it on.

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What makes these IDIOT democrats, if they can’t even see how, and why, these methods failed, and boomeranged, in the long term, for the Republicans, think it will work now, and give them long term favor within the greater government apparatus?

It’s rather obvious to smart people, what happened to the boy bloggerz, what, no abilty to analyze? Who would have guessed?

Dumbest sacks of shit I ever saw, ever.

In the NewYorker, a recent profile of McCain mentioned Karl Rove’s methods wouldn’t be part of the bigger game plan, this year, for Republicans, it was agreed.

Why are the bloggerboyz so STUPID not to question, why?

They’re the only ones in the world, right, and the executive controls everything, right?

Clueless.

Day late, and a dollar short, always.

At the very least, McCain isn’t going out of his way to anger intelligence, a very smart move.

Oh, but the KIDS love rap, so run Slim Shady, right?

(That would have been Bush, couldn’t come up with anything new?)

Stupid democrats.

I think someone was saying that over at Traitor Ayers blog, Ayers actually believes that McCain was enjoying life during his time in prison at a hotel that provided hookers.

Is the desperate or what!

I wonder sometimes if Brazile and DNC are in competition with the RNC circa 2000 & 2004:

Disenfranchisement – we can do it better

Swiftboating – you betcha, we can do it too

Trying to swiftboat a POW is a mistake on their part. It will piss of what is left of the blue collar workers. Good.

“You become what you hate”.
Congratulations Obamatons and The Huffingdom Effluent.
Bill and Hillary Clinton never engaged in any of this stuff. The never disrespected their opponent and Swiftboated them the way Obama and his “supporters” do.

“HILLARY WILL APPEAR WITH OBAMA JUNE 26.”

Because Obama is not a real leader and needs to copy Hillary’s true leadership.

Ummm… McCain was PRISONER OF WAR! HELLO!

Let’s see here, arianna huffington, married well…
well, that’s about all on the old biography…
Anyone over there calling her a b-word, c-word, come on trolls, she’s questioning the heroism of a man who was tortured for his country.
Personally, though it won’t happen I would love it if Senator Clinton would get on stage with barfy, scratch her nose like he did, talk about McCain’s heroism, look at barfy like the flea he is, dust off her shoulder, scrape her shoe and just walk away.

The Huffington ComPost has gone way over the line here. One may not agree with John McCain’s positions on issues, but to try and smear his military service is beneath contempt.

The guy graduated from Annapolis, which in and of itself puts him in a class apart from 99.9999% of the population. I don’t give a rat’s ass if he graduated first in his class or last.

Yes, he crashed some jets. But just in case the Huffington ComPost doesn’t know, flying aircraft off of carriers in a combat zone is, inherently, a very dangerous undertaking indeed. Crashes are not all that uncommon. I can assure you that, admiral’s son or not, had McCain’s C.O. not been convinced that he was indeed a competent pilot, he wouldn’t have allowed him to ontinue flying planes worth millions of dollars.

Finally, any man who could endure 5 1/2 years of captivity in a North Vietnamese shithole … and who would actually REFUSE an offer to be sent home early rather than sell out his fellow POWs! … has balls of stone and a will of iron. But of course, spoiled, neurotic bitches like Arianna Huffington and the sniveling little turds who run the Huffington ComPost would never understand that.

My father is also a Vietnam Vet., proud to have served his country despite having been drafted.

He sometimes works at various events in Boston as head of security for the “talent.” When I spoke with him on Sunday he mentioned that he had just done security for Chris Rock at the Wang Center.

As with most comedians right now, part of Chris Rock’s act included jokes about the election and the candidates.
Chris said of McCain, “Why would you want the guy who got caught to be president? I would rather have the guy who got away.”

My dad was not entertained. Standing offstage with Chris Rock’s bodyguard he said, “I understand that this is comedy, but I wonder what the hell he would do in a plane at 22,000 feet with a missile up his ass?!”, and walked away.

I guess it’s one thing to feel comfortable making jokes like that to a bunch of strangers in an audience, but it all changes when stuff becomes personal.
Between sets said bodyguard approached my father and told him that Chris apologized and that he meant no offense and that Chris had decided to exclude that part of the act for the second set out of respect.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much it would hurt my father to read what Jeffrey Klein wrote on HuffPo, and I hope I never find out.

Any room under that bus for a bunch Vietnam Vets?

Unless Kerry’s finger was up his ass too, then than bullet never came close. Everything he said about Vietnam before congress was a cruel lie.

Whats this about people having to vote against barack to ‘save their country’? I can understand if you think he will be a poor president but do you really think America will face some sort of existential threat to its very existence if he wins?

HOW COME NO ONE REVIEWED OBAMA’S MILITARY RECORD? OH RIGHT, HE DOES NOT HAVE ONE! HE WAS TOO BUSY HANGING WITH THE LEFTY GROUP. HE GOT HIS EDUCATION FROM TERRORISTS (THE AYERS FAMILY – BILL AND HIS WIFE AND LET’S SEE BILL’S FATHER AND BROTHER TOO!) LET’S NOT FORGET HIS EARLY EDUCATION WITH “UNCLE” FRANK AND THE GROUP OF YOUNG LADS OVER AT COOPER-UNION. OH YEAH, I ALMOST FORGET “UNCLE” WRIGHT.

If Obama get the POTUS we will all be feeling like we were captured and tortured for at least 4 years.

Leave it to the far left to not know where the line of discretion is. They will beat themselves with this pitch against McCain, it is un-American to say 5+ years as a POW is special treatment.

What a stupid, meaningless comment to make.

You condescending prick my grandfather spent a big part of WWII in a German Stalag. According to you it was his fault he ran out of ammo and got captured after all of his fellow soldiers died.

imagine, these are the people that dean and the dnc are banking on to bring the election home this november.

Does gramps know Uncle Oblahma? He liberated Auschwitz dontcha know.

Thanks, unfortunately he rarely talks about any of his experiences. I imagine they were horrifying though. As a POW he said they all got 1 rutabaga a day to live on and anyone who took one from another was executed by the Germans.

Now, I don’t pretend to know anything about what he went through because he won’t discuss it; however, I’d bet money that McCain’s term as a POW was just as bad and probably worse. To denigrate McCain is to denigrate my grandfather, all other POW’s, and all of the men and women who ever served for our country. And what of those people who weren’t as lucky as my grandfather?

I cant tell you how many of my old “typical white person” schoolmates have the email tagline: ‘If You Can Read This Thank A Teacher If You Can Read This In English Thank A Soldier!’

You got that right… Did Obama ever serve this country? Probaly HELL NO. I hate that man he lies every time his mouth opens. The Democrats and Media better wake up. So now they start on McCain. I’m going to quit reading their stupid stuff. God bless all our service men and women. Find our if that dirty terd served instead of putting McCain down. Dig up all that dirt ON OBAMA you got so much time

I respect Hillary but I won’t watch her on the same stage with Obama. She is doing what she has to do.

My great uncle was in the Bataan Death March, I didn’t appreciate his comment regarding that one either.

It was appalling what the DNC did to Kerry. I won’t stand for it happening to McCain too. This is just beyond stupid and foolishness. We have men and women fighting and dying in Iraq. Remember McCain son is in Iraq along with Webb’s son and I beleive Joe Biden has someone over in Iraq also.

We have become a self absorbed nation of mediocrity. We probably will get the president we deserve

Just not for POTUS.

I think Obama’s mother left the continental USA at age 18 and never returned, I don’t think she liked this country very much, or the people living here. maybe that is why Obama doesn’t like this country either, and all his friends feel the same, all anti-American.

McBush –

Sure, Bill didn;t serve. Neither did Obama.

But can we criticize Obama surrogates like the ass who wrote the HuffPo article for tearing down McCain’s service to our country?

Oh yes we can.

And I’m sure AxelROVE will be sending out the lie-packed emails about McCain’s service to all the bots –”send this email to all your friends” — just like he did to Hillary.

You think we’re stupid? When 18 year olds are spreading 20 year old GOP lies about Hillary on the net — we know AxelROVE supllied those emails.

We know.

We have copies of the emails.

Admit it — Obama played as dirty as he could.

Be a man — admit it.

Your idol is just another skanky politician.

Look, I know this is a losing proposition. I disgree with what was written in it’s totality. But in equating this to Hill and Obama is where we disagree. I’m not priveleged to the emails you’re discussing, but I do know that Hillary’s campaign was pretty trashy. If your insinuating that their hands were clean. They weren’t. I don’t think you’re stupid, which is why I believe that you know better than to believe that O controls everything that’s written on the internet.

That is such bullshit. You’re as big a liar as Obama to accuse Hillary of being anywhere near as dirty as Obama was. There has been only one campaigner in history that comes anywhere close to running as slimy a campaign as Obama, and that is George W. Bush. Obama (and Oprah) must be so proud of what he had done to the Party Formerly Known as Democratic — suppressing votes, demeaning women, race-baiting. Obama wouldn’t recognize honesty and integrity if they raised up and bit him on his delicate little behind.

The lies against Hillary, such as the racism accusations, were part of an orchestrated campaign by Obama and his staff. The attacks against McCain are just another foray into mud-slinging by Obama — it seems to be the only thing he is good at. So don’t come here whining that Obama has nothing to do with it.

Hilary had a faulty memory about sniper fire. BOBO accused her of wanting him murdered. BOBO is slime.

YOu poor little BOBOweenie. It’s all about BOBO. Hillary and McCain just happen to be on the receiving end of BOBO slime.