Is there a Vice-Presidential choice that would make you either MORE likely to support McCain or LESS likely to support him?
I'm already voting for McCain, but the addition of Pawlenty would make the choice even better. Besides the usual VP qualifications, he’s a hockey player, “a really good guy” and has a very smart wife (I’m listening to Judge Mary Pawlenty guest-hosting on Ian and Margery's Balanced Breakfast Show on FM107). Actually, he’s too good to waste on a vice-presidency, but I think that will probably cinch it for him.
How do those three things even factor in as qualifications? Are you seriously looking at the QUALIFICATIONS of the nominees? A Hockey Player, A Really Good Guy, and Has A Very Smart Wife ????!
TruthMattersMcCain couldn't pick anyone to run as Vice President that would possibly change my mind on him. For ONE thing.. he knows nothing about the economy, he's admitted that himself several times.
And to elect someone solely because they've been POW and you respect their service to their country, is short-sighted. How can those 'skills' help in being the President of the United States?!
Look into his military history.
"Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in the ****pit of a military aircraft...
During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.
"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs -- the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I'm sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down."
For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot and collaborations with the enemy by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism.
McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become America's POW-hero presidential candidate.
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