Sen. Webb Decides To Jump On The Bandwagon And Criticize McCain
First we had Weasel Clark criticizing McCain's military service and how within the past 4 years, it is now unacceptable to use military service as prerequisite for becoming president. Now we have the pervert Sen. Webb saying McCain needs to "calm down" on using his military service in politics.
"I think what we really need to work on over the next four, five months, and it goes back to the speech that Sen. Obama gave [Tuesday] and this little fight that I've been watching and that is, we need to make sure that we take politics out of service," Webb said. "People don't serve their country for political issues."
He continued: "And John McCain's my long-time friend, if that is one area that I would ask him to calm down on, it's that, don't be standing up and uttering your political views and implying that all the people in the military support them because they don't, any more than when the Democrats have political issues during the Vietnam War. Let's get the politics out of the military, take care of our military people, or have our political arguments in other areas."
I'm no fan of McCain, but others are making a bigger deal about his service than he is. The Democrat's hypocrisy is never more evident. I heard about Kerry receiving the purple heart not once, not twice, but thrice! so much that it's pretty much burned into my brain. All you heard about was Kerry's service and how GWB only served in the Nat'l Guard and because of Kerry's service, he was more fit to be president. In 4 short years, you have a Democratic candidate with no military service (and limited public service) and a "Republican" candidate with military service (and lengthy public service) and it's now taboo to discuss military service.
I think I hear the "thump, thump" of another person thrown under the bus.
***UPDATE***
I missed Race-baiter Rangel's comments.
Rangel, on Fox News, said that McCain's service in Vietnam was "admirable"
"And we should spend the rest of our lives thanking people for doing that," Rangel said. "It doesn't have any connection at all in being a good senator, as being a good president."
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"I could have done so many things in life that probably could have been more productive in terms of being able to resolve legislative and other type of things," he said. "I think my training in law school better prepared me to be a lawmaker than getting shot in Korea, as I did in 1950. But I think that people who serve should be treated differently. I think people put their lives in harm's way."
Another "thump, thump" under the wheels coming
***Update***
It just keeps getting better, an Obama advisor said "McCain was "sadly limited" during his POW years.
“Sadly, Sen. McCain was not available during those times, and I say that with all due respect to him," said informal Obama adviser Rand Beers. "I think that the notion that the members of the Senate who were in the ground forces or who were ashore in Vietnam have a very different view of Vietnam and the cost that you described than John McCain does because he was in isolation essentially for many of those years and did not experience the turmoil here or the challenges that were involved for those of us who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war."
"So I think," he continued, "to some extent his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited and I think it is reflected in some of the ways that he thinks about how U.S. forces might be committed to conflicts around the world."
"thump, thump"
