(last one had a period in the URL)

War hero? Consider that there are some that claim that he was not tortured. No one witnessed it. Other prisoners with him report that he was gone from the camp for at least a year that he knows about. A CIA agent once told a POW widow that McCain actually spent 2 years in Eastern Europe.

In his career, he is known to be a huge supporter of the viet cong (leading the cause for normalization of relations), hugged top VC guy who interrogated him, and fighting tooth and nail against POW/MIA investigations, and aligning himself with Kerry, known to also love VC communists, and hate US soldiers.

It seems to me that there is a lot room to doubt the hero story. And if you think that “ability to beat Hillary” is a reason to nominate him, consider that the Clintons will dig up a whole lot of dirt on the McCain-Manchurian candidate in this regard. He will never win. A vote for McCain is a vote for Hillary.

—…In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would be for two years. In July 1968, McCain’s father was named Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), stationed in Honolulu and commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater. McCain was immediately offered a chance to return home early: the North Vietnamese wanted a mercy-showing propaganda coup for the outside world, and a message that only privilege mattered that they could use against the other POWs. McCain turned down the offer of repatriation due to the Code of Conduct of “first in, first out”: he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well. McCain’s refusal to be released was even remarked upon by North Vietnamese officials to U.S. envoy Averell Harriman at the ongoing Paris Peace Talks.

In August 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions and beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. Teeth and bones were broken again as was McCain’s spirit; the beginnings of a suicide attempt was stopped by guards. After four days of this, McCain signed an anti-American propaganda “confession” that said he was a “black criminal” and an “air pirate”, although he used stilted Communist jargon and ungrammatical language to signal the statement was forced. He would later write, “I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.” His injuries to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head. His captors tried to force him to sign a second statement, and this time he refused. He received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal…. —

any self respecting person should be ashamed of themselves for saying such garbage. The man served his country and survived extreme torture. He is an American hero

They should change his nickname from Straight Talk Express to Flip Flop Express.

There’s nothing good about this guy. He’s dishonest, he’s riding on a legacy that isn’t really true… He’s no war hero. He was an below-average military man riding on the coattails of his family’s legacy in the Navy.

He cheated on his crippled wife and then divorced her for a younger woman.

What kills me is that we are critical of Clinton for the legislation that she supports, yet the fact of the matter is that she supports legislation that McCain wrote! He’s no friend of freedom, he’s definitely not a conservative and as far as I am concerned he’s no friend of the military (which you point out here).

I feel no guilt about slamming him, because to hold up your time as POW to cover up everything else you do is pure crap.