Last week, on his campaign plane heading toward Colombia, John McCain all but blew his top when a reporter asked him how his status as a former POW qualified him to be president:
“Please,” he said, recoiling back in his seat in distaste at the very question.
McCain allies Sen. Lindsey Graham stepped in to rescue him. Graham expressed admiration for McCain’s stance on the treatment of detainees in US custody.
“That to me is a classic example of how his military experience helped him shape public policy in a way no other senator could have done,’’ Graham said.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, also traveling on the trip, expressed admiration for McCain’s wartime service as well.
McCain then collected himself and apologized for his initial reaction.
“I kind of reacted the way I did because I have a reluctance to talk about my experiences,” he said, noting that he has huge admiration for the “heroes” who served with him in the POW camp and said the experience taught him to love the U.S. because he missed it so much.
“I am always reluctant to talk about these things,” McCain said.
Less than a week later, McCain releases a campaign ad, titled “Love,” that focuses on — you guessed it — his status as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“reluctance to talk about it” . . . but it forms the ONLY basis for his “qualifications” . . . his anti-Veteran’s Health and Welfare, anti-women, anti-children, anti-elder and anti-black VOTING pattern certainly can’t be what he wants to focus on. Nor can he lay claim to any ground-breaking masterful Senate accomplishments that contributed to making America a better county . . . he best be shouting from the roof top (of one of his 8 houses) that he is a “War Hero and deserves to be PRESIDENT!!” . . .