When I wrote the diary concerning the uncanny resemblance between John McCain's Christmas story and the story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet gulags, I had no idea about the response it would really generate. I figured that people would see it as an interesting "gotcha" story, and that maybe people would be interested enough in it to place my diary on the rec list. Well, I can honestly say that I GREATLY underestimated the interest and I underestimated the feedback, both positive and negative, that it has generated.
First of all, I would like to thank the people who have sent their encouragement and kind messages to me. I have been complimented on my "good citizen journalism" and have seen people take my idea and raise it to the level such that it is being talked about in the mainstream media.
Of course, along with the good comes the bad, and I have been called a traitor, a terrorist, un-American, and someone who wants to destroy Christianity. I have been called a "pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons" player who loves to "disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement" by the McCain people. Because of these attacks, I feel that it is necessary to tell a bit about myself, and to highlight what it is that we are really up against in the candidate that is John McCain.
I served in the Navy as a Nuclear Plant Operator for over 14 years. I served onboard the USS Texas (CGN-39) in Operation Desert Storm. I served onboard the USS Arkansas (CGN-41) in support of Operation Desert Fox. I was a crewmember of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) when airplanes struck the Twin Towers on 9/11, and our ship was the first ship that was flying attack missions into Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I am a father, a husband, an active member of VoteVets, and I take personally any attack on my character or on my morality.
That being said, in this election cycle I have tried to expose the political creation that I like to call The Legend of John McCainTM.
The Legend of John McCainTM is a masterpiece in political maneuvering that has strength like no one has ever seen. Somehow the McCain team has constructed a persona that can attack at will, but can never be attacked. They have used McCain's POW history to create a firewall to shield from all criticism, and as a universal qualifier for all things that pertain to foreign policy or to the military.
Here are some examples:
- Any question of McCain's integrity is instantly an insult to all military personnel and all veterans who have ever served.
- Any opposition to McCain's ideas must be prefaced with a disclaimer honoring his military service.
- Any McCain misstep or gaffe is instantly forgiven because he was once a Prisoner of War, and must be honored as such.
- John McCain's war hero status overrides the Ten Commandments, because according to Sean Hannity, his adultery is erased by the fact that he was imprisoned in Vietnam.
The Legend of John McCainTM has been perpetuated by the Republican party and the Corporate Media to crush all dissent and create a teflon candidate that is beyond reproach.
I have to say it is a masterstroke, because it allows McCain to create his own narrative to any group he chooses. He picked up the Solzhenitsyn story, which is a common Christian fable, and made it his own. He knew that it couldn't really be disproven, and that The Legend of John McCainTM would shield the story from further scrutiny. His support of the continued occupation of Iraq is an economic nightmare, costing taxpayers over $12 Billion a month, but who can question the military knowledge and expertise of The Legend of John McCainTM. His foreign policy is tainted by the lobbyists he employs, and his tough guy diplomacy has been a proven failure over the last eight years of the Bush Administration, but The Legend of John McCainTM is more American than you are and he just knows how to deal with those pesky Commies.
Despite being the uneducated, D&D playing, pro-Obama, anti-Christian terrorist that I apparently am for opposing and trying to shine the light on The Legend of John McCainTM, I can still smile every morning when I wake up and have my coffee. The support and encouragement that I have received from the members of this site and from people all over the country tells me that America is still alive and well. Thank you.
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
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