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  •  On this point I respectfully disagree (1+ / 0-)

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    phrogge prince

    Sorry.

    And it's a line I can hear coming from the lips of Cheney and Rumsfeld, not about McCain, but about anyone who went through the hell that is Iraq, then dared to criticize the administration.  Tortured?  Eh, part of the job.

    My opinion.  Doesn't mean I think McCain would be any better than Bush as president.

    'It's not the greenhouse gases, it's the white house gases' - David Letterman

    by perky mcjuggs on Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 11:29:48 AM PDT

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    •  ...call it... (1+ / 0-)

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      One Pissed Off Liberal

      Tortured?  Eh, part of the job.

      ...an occupational hazard.

      "Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery." ---Jack Paar

      by bic momma on Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 11:37:06 AM PDT

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      •  When I think of a Hero or the notion of Heroism (0+ / 0-)

        it is uncommon courage in the face of fear and overwhelming odds.

        All soldiers are "heros" if the only criteria is service.  But Audie Murphy or Bo Gritz were heros because of much more.

        McCain was heroic to perservere as a POW when he could've let political strings secure early freedom or when he could've stopped the pain by making a video denouncing the U.S.  He didn't.

        I give him his hero badge, but like you, I don't see how that qualifies him to be President, espcially at a time when he is bending over backwards to prove himself to the fringe elements of the radical religious right.

        simplicity is the most difficult of all things

        by RichardWoodcockII on Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 11:53:13 AM PDT

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