The Media Is Being Unfair To John McCain
1. It is being reported that McCain joked at the Saddleback Forum that to be rich you have to have $5,000,000. Be fair to McCain. What he really said was that to be rich you need an annual income of $5,000,000.
2. McCain is being slammed for not knowing how many houses he has. That isn't his fault. It's very easy to be confused on this. His own campaign mistakenly thought the number was four. Obama thought it was seven. The Washington Post said eight.
The fact is that they are hard to count. For example, the Sidonna property has 5 or 6 separate full size houses. Do you count that as one home, five, six? And are the three condos houses? They may be million dollar (and more) multi-floor, luxury residences, but they aren't free standing buildings. So do they count?
Give the guy a break.
3. McCain is being attacked for changing his position on the draft.
At a Town Hall type meeting in New Mexico yesterday, McCain was asked:
"Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disabled veterans, especially in this state, have horrible conditions.... I think it is a sad state of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of medical and our vets can't even get to a doctor. These are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don't reenact the draft I don't think we will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell."
McCain replied: "Ma'am, let me say that I don't disagree with anything you said and thank you and I am grateful for your support of all of our veterans."
Sure, the very last thing that she said was that we needed to reinstate the draft and McCain agreed, but c'mon, she'd been talking for minutes and it was late and McCain kind of drifts off, so there's every chance in the world that he had no idea what she had just said.
8 comments:
Uncle,
I do you respect you and this blog, however I think all your liberal bullshit is starting to get on my nerves.
Please let's not discuss the Presidential election. You would be better discussing state,county and local issues.
I don't know if this is the Uncle or someone filling infor the Uncle, and I do want to see local issues, but I have no problem with talking about the National election too and if you think anything is bullshit then argue against it with facts.
Which part is "bullshit"? That McCain is calling Obama an "elitist?" That's what they keep saying. That McCain is the gazillionaire and Obama isn't? That's true.
I miss the old days when everybody posting here called everybody else a shit-head and if we have to talk about McCain and Obama to get that back, I'm all for it!
Can't we all just get each other by the throat?
There are plenty of blogs that discuss the national issues. There is only ONE Woodbury blog, so stick to the issues that affect Woodbury more directly e.g. local county and state.
Yes and no.
Woodbury is the primary interest here, but the world around us exists too, so (at least until the grownups get back) we're mouthing off about both.
Do see the post directly above this one.
We are all aware of the heavy price that John McCain paid as a prisoner of war.
And the Senator has reminded us, frequently, that he is still paying for that experience.
It's been used as an explanation for his cheating on and deserting his first wife.
It's been used to dismiss the charge that he was a carpetbagger when he first ran for Congress.
And now it somehow explains why he doesn't know how many homes he has.
His terrible experiences as a POW apparently took such a toll on him that he is unable to function ethically, answer to constraints that others must follow or even to remember everyday pieces of information.
While Senator McCain deserves all honor for his service and his sacrifice, it appears, from his own testimony, that it has rendered him unfit for the Presidency.
Uncle Betty is obviously for Obama. And it is the Uncle's blog so s/he can be as biased as s/he wants.
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