The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor who married Jenna Bush and who is part of a new Christian-based political action committee supporting Obama, recently criticized the joke McCain made at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally encouraging Cindy to enter the topless Miss Buffalo Chip contest. The McCain spokesman Brian Rogers brought out the bottomless excuse, responding with asperity that McCain’s character had been “tested and forged in ways few can fathom.”
When the Obama crowd was miffed to learn that McCain was in a motorcade rather than in a “cone of silence” while Obama was being questioned by Rick Warren, Nicolle Wallace of the McCain camp retorted, “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous.”
When Obama chaffed McCain for forgetting how many houses he owns, Rogers huffed, “This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison.”
As Sam Stein notes in The Huffington Post: “The senator has even brought his military record into discussion of his music tastes. Explaining that his favorite song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba, he offered that his knowledge of music ‘stopped evolving when his plane intercepted a surface-to-air missile.’ ‘Dancing Queen,’ however, was produced in 1975, eight years after McCain’s plane was shot down.”
Nicely done.
I have noticed, along with many others, that McCain has been using his experiences as a Vietnam prisoner of war as a shield to block every single possible criticism.
At first it worked perfectly. If a reporter asked a question which questioned McCain's qualifications, he simply whipped out the POW card and the journalist simply slinked away and hoped no Republican blogger would eviscerate them for daring to insult a war hero.
But since McCain has used his POW status with such reckless abandon he has not only reduced it to an excuse for his every gaffe or mistake, but he is also in danger of making the experiences of other POW's into a joke
Dancing queen wasn’t released in the U.S. until 1977 on the Arrival album Sam Stein is a jackass. And I seriously doubt McCain meant he was listening to Abba when his plan was shot down. Use your brain people.
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