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McCain Uses POW Past On Jay Leno To Defend Houses Again

huffingtonpost.com — While Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama and the Obama's daughters were wowing Denver at the DNC, John McCain was sitting down with Jay Leno and bringing up his years as a POW at unexpected moments.

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  • thejoshuablog, on 08/26/2008, -22/+67It is now officially a "hands on" topic. Bravo, McPutz. Bravo.
    • rz8472, on 08/26/2008, -5/+12Personally I prefer the term 'talking scrotum'... but that works too.
      • Bawk, on 08/26/2008, -4/+6Eh... Scrota are less wrinkly.
      • mrsteveman1, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5Is that seriously the plural? oh man thats awesome and i don't even know why
    • jamie939, on 08/26/2008, -3/+17McCain's defense to every subject goes like this. Noun, Verb, POW.
  • jstohler, on 08/26/2008, -15/+132But... but.. John McCain HATES talking about his time as a POW. Oh yeah, and he's not a celebrity either.
    • xine13, on 08/26/2008, -3/+28You forgot to mention he was a POW." I was a POW dammit, I deserve to be president!!!"
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -27/+8In other news the affirmative action candidate was trying to explain his great luck in getting into great universities, having come from a totally ghetto life.
      • growler1, on 08/26/2008, -6/+16In other news it's hands-down-no-contest who the smarter of the two presidential candidates is, neo-c9n affirmative action accusations aside.
      • GeneralFault, on 08/26/2008, -6/+21Good grades, studying and hard work doesn't matter to you QuadZeroRoute? It's all about what kind of family you come from? You must be a republican.
      • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -24/+5growler1 you liberal dick head....try and pay attention now, I will speak verrrry slooowly.

        I take it you like it when people like Barack Obama, an affirmative action case if I've ever seen one gets promoted over whites when he may not have scored as well? Obama may have scored a 45%tile in grades and been promoted over whites scoring as high as the 90%tile. That's what happens here in Chicago on the police and fire departments....and you can never get to the grades. Even Obama's grade report would never show it....the grades are hidden by the teacher in grade inflation because the student was a minority.
      • ironhide, on 08/26/2008, -2/+12"May have"? So, you're basically talking out of your ass right?
      • maxbowman, on 08/26/2008, -2/+13@ QuadZeroRoute......i must have missed the day when Harvard Law was just full of mediocre minorities, rather then all the rich white brats. Yeah AA may help but you still have to be fairly smart to get into his schools...they dont just go: "OMG your black...grades?...who cares?....i mean just to get into Harvard and Columbia you need to be much higher then the 45% even if your a super-minority.
      • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -15/+4maxbowman did you even read what I typed you ***** head?" Read it again....slowly.

        Obama may have scored a 45%tile in grades and been promoted over whites scoring as high as the 90%tile.

        It happens ALL THE TIME in Chicago in the Police and Fire Departments....AND ALL OTHER COLLEGES NATIONWIDE so why would it be any different at Harvard?
      • ironhide, on 08/26/2008, -1/+12Again you said "may have". You have no idea what grades Obama made. I do notice that you didn't respond to me, just dugg me down. ***** coward.
      • minimitable, on 08/26/2008, -1/+12Wow Quad - I've seen you around Digg, read some of your comments... You come off like someone who feels entitled because old-school, racist ideology says you are but have failed miserably at life in spite of this.

        As a result, you continually project your shortcomings and failings on anyone who contradicts you or is brown (see above).

        You really should stop making comments/arguments filled with this pointless drivel. You only make yourself look foolish.
      • Wilarseny, on 08/26/2008, -1/+11@quadzeroroute: you know nothing about the college admissions process. yes, minorites are heavily recruited. but i work closely with the admissions department at my school, a top ten university, and there's no ***** chance they'll take someone if they're not fully qualified to study there. it just doesn't make sense in any context: if they take unqualified students, they flunk out, transfer or otherwise fail to graduate, and that bombs their matriculation rates and lowers the prestige of the university. sure, they have a mandate to increase diversity. but especially now, with as many overqualified overseas students that apply, they can achieve putting together a racially diverse class without making any sacrifices in terms of the overall preparedness and ability of their students. if anything white, american students are the ones who are favored, as many times they will be given the benefit of the doubt if they are legacy or from a prestigious high school.

        i wont say the fact that barack obama's race has nothing to do with his winning the democratic ticket, but it's not out of white folks' pity--the black community is behind him in huge numbers, as you'll know if you've spent any time on the south side of chicago or any other urban area. there's a tshirt place near where i live that specialized in screen printed barack obama shirts and it makes pretty damn good business if that's any indication.

        before making blanket statements about all colleges nationwide, id suggest getting some firsthand knowledge of how admissions departments actually function, since it appears you're completely ignorant.
      • DavidTrom, on 08/26/2008, -2/+9Quak I bet you would love Monarchy, only the son of the powerfull can lead, kind of like your beloved president Bush.
        Or your candidate McCain, son of military royalty and married into money (also a valid way to get to the trone, excuseme, I meant the presidency).
        Why don't we pass laws so people who work for their money and/or achieve succes are bar for leading?
        is that what you'd prefer?
        had you ever contemplated that there is black people who went to college because they deserve it, or is that simply not a possibility for you?

      • maxbowman, on 08/27/2008, -0/+5@ Quad

        yes i read what you wrote....did you read mine?

        I know what you said happens the the chigaco FD and PD (which btw your just coming off like a guy who was a dick and got rightly passed over for gigs), but that really has nothing to do with college scores....seeing as you need to be at least 70ish%(ile) to even get a look...so why don't u go back to being old and bitter and i will go off enjoying my happy life where i dont have to blame black people when i dont do a go enough job.
      • xine13, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3How many times did you fail 6th grade before you gave up?
    • EarlOfLade, on 08/26/2008, -3/+18I am so sick and tired of McCain and his POW crap. He makes it sound like he is the only one to ever have been a POW and last night he just made himself look like the moron he really is.

      Biden's now so famous words about Guilliani can also be used about McLame.
      A noun, a verb and POW - that's all McCain has.
    • LeeSoong, on 08/26/2008, -9/+2Great Response from Mr. McCain -

      That was the most polite
      'F@#k You ALL! I earned it the hard way, damnit!'
      I have ever heard.

      But seriously - for a moment - he is the spouse of a drug lord.

      Cindy Hensley McCain is a millionaire because she is a drug dealer, pushing drugs on America.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley_McCain
      It so happens that it is the legal drug - Alcohol, in the ever so friendly format of Beer.

      Not that Obama is any better - a puffer of da herb:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8

      Drug Dealers and Dope Heads - are these the best men the USA can find for leadership ?

      The USA runs the risk of becoming another banana republic - lorded over by oil barons and drug king pins.
  • chrissku, on 08/26/2008, -18/+277The McCain campaign needs to stop pulling out the POW card every time someone points out John's shortcomings.

    John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns...

    Campaign response : John was a POW

    John lied in a speech.....

    Campaign response : John was a POW

    John McCain is showing signs of dementia....

    Campaign response : John was a POW

    John has a terribly bad temper and can't control himself at times...

    Campaign response : John was a POW

    John cheated on his first wife while she was recovering from a car accident....

    Campaign response : John was a POW

    Cindy stole drugs from her charity....

    Campaign response : John was a POW
    • Rotzooi, on 08/26/2008, -2/+123See: Giuliani, 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
      • BWashedbyFox, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8I once admired Giuliani. He really did clean up NYC until he exploit 9/11 for his political gain. I can't even count how many times he mentioned 9/11 in the republican convention 2004. It almost sound like that was a good day for him...McCain with his POW sh*t, like he was the only pow.
    • neognostic, on 08/26/2008, -1/+41Nice, I'm sorry I can only digg you up once.
    • CrazyZ, on 08/26/2008, -47/+5As long as the Obama campaign stops pulling out the race card............
      • enki25, on 08/26/2008, -1/+32Do you even have an idea of what that means? Or do you just repeat what the other people in your trailer park say?
      • RetlawST, on 08/26/2008, -1/+23Nonono, you got it all wrong. It's the Neocons who play the race card.

        Why do you think Obama got the party nomination?
        Neocon response: Because he's black.
      • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -0/+18You mean the constant insinuations that the only reason Obama got the nomination is because he's black? That race card?
      • BWashedbyFox, on 08/26/2008, -0/+7Fox news is the only thing you watch?
      • CrazyZ, on 08/26/2008, -4/+2You are all sheep plain and simple, spewing your respective parties line..... If Obama wasn't black, a fact that you dems and libs make sure to mention at every opportunity, he'd never have even been in the running and that is a fact. You people have no clue who I am, where I'm from, what color or nationality I am, yet I speak the simple truth and I am immediately labeled neocon, redneck, republican etc...

        You all have so very much to learn, and as Obama's chances of winning slide away, because people are slowly seeing him for what he is, you can all cry on eachother's shoulders...
      • zombies187, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Every person who even mentions the race card is playing the race card.
      • Cuchanu, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1Hey use your brain...it only hurts for a second.

        1. Yes he occasionaly talks about race because, surprise! It's an issue. But it's not until the McCain/Clinton people start saying "oh he's playin the race card" that it actually gets talked about on the news. Mission accomplished McCain/Clinton, you get to remind people that Obama's black and 'do you really want to vote for one of them?'

        2. Notice how nearly every time the McCain/Clinton people talked about Obama they use works like "frightening, alarming, worried, etc". Well guess what they are trying to do (and it works)? They are trying to appeal to people's inner racist without actually saying anything racist. That's the genius of it.
    • mozert, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7What is a POW?
      • enki25, on 08/26/2008, -1/+52It's like a terrorist in Gitmo, only less brown.
      • AdmiralJimbob, on 08/26/2008, -2/+11A miserable little pile of secrets
      • dafragsta, on 08/26/2008, -1/+18A subpar NES game.
      • Phearce, on 08/26/2008, -8/+7Abbreviation for Prisoner of War.
      • AlekNovi, on 08/26/2008, -9/+2Mozart its a "prisoner of war". Kinda like rambo :)

        Seriousness aside. Its like those us soldiers captured by the vietcong etc...
      • Darkaged, on 08/26/2008, -0/+12It's a bad-ass power up.

        Jesus, do some research next time.
        http://www.mariowiki.com/POW_Block
      • PleaseJustDie, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8John McCain is showing signs of dementia....

        Campaign response : John was a POW

        That one there really could be a legitimate excuse...
      • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4it would be legitimate excuse, but i would what captain dementia runnin the country
      • socalhellfire, on 08/28/2008, -1/+0You need to watch the Original Batman!
    • brundlefly76, on 08/26/2008, -1/+42I have nothing against McCain having as many houses as he wants, and am very grateful to his service to America.

      I just think he'd be a lousy president.
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -26/+5The McCain camp will quit pulling out the POW card when the affirmative action candidate quits pulling out the race card.
      • Nightfall, on 08/26/2008, -3/+23Post proof please of Obama pulling the race card.

        Oh thats right, he hasn't. The media likes pointing it out, but unlike Jesse Jackson and other black candidates before Obama, he isn't running on a platform of race. Maybe that is why he is doing so well.
      • ModernDayDarwin, on 08/26/2008, -1/+17How many times has he answered "I'm black" when asked about anything?
      • GeneralFault, on 08/26/2008, -4/+15So far, you and another neocon buddy here have been the only ones in this thread that have said anything about race. So far while watching various news stations this morning, the only times that I have heard a word about race is when a neocon is talking (cough cough Pat Buchanan).
        That must be the only card you have. It's so pathetically weak and yet you keep playing it. That's sad. So very sad.
      • adamwho, on 08/26/2008, -3/+14That is a silly thing to say. Obama is one of the first candidates in a LONG time who wasn't handed everything.
      • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -12/+3He has said several times he is black or did you forget. Here is the affirmative action candidate himself in his own words:

        “The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? He’s got a feisty wife.

        “We know the strategy because they’ve already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us.”
      • GeneralFault, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4"stewardship of the economy" Is that what you call it? LOL.
      • Wilarseny, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9@qzr: i think you've been hoisted on your own petard. quoting obama making a jab at the mccain camp's and msm's fear tactics? please. he's saying that sticking to "old stuff" like race is something that divides, rather than unites. do you need an interpreter here? someone to explain to you what candidates say? someone to teach you the alphabet maybe? im sure all these people responding to your comments would be glad to help.
      • zombies187, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Quad, you are pointing out his blackness. That's playing the race card. Please keep it up. It helps Republicans look bad. I know you are too smart to believe such a poor line of reasoning.
      • GeneralFault, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1"I know you are too smart to believe such a poor line of reasoning."
        I don't. I've met far too many like him.
      • zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1"I've met far too many like him."
        Me too. But I have read dozens and dozens of his comments. They are clearly willfully ignorant. He is being paid by the McCain camp, and he gets his revenge on his bosses by being obvious about poor logic. Its a trick. He is probably liberal. Fight the power QR0!
    • IJstickI, on 08/26/2008, -10/+3your evidence is up to par with huffingtonpost....which is embarassing
    • AndrewMoyer, on 08/26/2008, -3/+5Haha, remember the box in the original Mario Brothers game at the bottom you could whack whenever you were in trouble? It said "POW" and I think John McCain is a big fan of that game.

      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Kaet ...
    • chr0nic21, on 08/26/2008, -12/+1your just as dumb as Mcain is...dumbass
    • sodoh, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6He should get Rudy as his running mate. They could do "POW" / "9-11" routine (sung to the sound of Mnhaa Mnhaa" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs ).
      • Cuchanu, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1They could walk on stage and have white t-shirts with big black letters: POW for McCain and 9/11 for Guliani.
    • LeeSoong, on 08/26/2008, -4/+2Why do you Hate America ?
  • kp998, on 08/26/2008, -19/+59Would you want his finger on the button after spending time in the Hanoi Hilton, not me. 'nuff said.
    • Rotzooi, on 08/26/2008, -25/+11Buried for "'nuff said". I ***** hate that.
      • GeneralFault, on 08/26/2008, -3/+14Buried for telling us that you buried him. nuff said.
      • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/26/2008, -6/+6Rootzi Tootsie is laying down the law! Pay attention a European socialist has spoken!
      • BoneStamp, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9You know he's right about McCain so you had to find some reason to bury him... and it came down to pet peeves, not logic... I hope you don't vote with the same system.
      • EricSchC1, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3@ QZR: way to go...you used "European socialist" as an insult? You mean that continent w/a stronger economy, better schools and medical resources, more wealth than us and more benefits for all their peoples? Ooooooh, such an insult.
    • Drahkar, on 08/26/2008, -6/+11Not to mention the fact that at the sign of trouble he turned and collaborated with the enemy against his country. Do we really want to put someone like -that- at the wheel of this car?

      That's like taking a drunk to a bar and having them be the designated driver.
    • Cuchanu, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1I don't want his finger anywhere.
  • blakecr, on 08/26/2008, -11/+82Manchurian Candidate!

    What kind of damage would 5 1/2 years of torture produce?

    Pardon me...I was just advised by the Bush administration that John was not tortured by current standards.

    This has to be a commercial from at least a 527 group...

    John McCain's defense is that he was a POW for 5 1/2 years...

    That he was tortured, but to current definitions of what torture is, John was merely aggressively interrogated.
    • TheWriteGuy, on 08/26/2008, -0/+26Hell, the guy who ran the POW camp said he predicts McCain will win and would make a good President, and that he'd vote for McCain if he were an American. Something about that man's endorsement feels... unsettlingly strange.
    • ISIfunded911, on 08/26/2008, -21/+4They both are Manchurian candidates:
      http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Postmodern-Webster-Gri ...
      This review is from: Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate (Paperback)

      Politicians do the opposite of what they promise more often than not. So before you vote, plug your ears to their speeches, and check what their advisors have been up to...

      In "Obama: the Postmodern Coup," Tarpley gets a giant scoop as the first to delve behind the screen into the forces behind Obama: and finds out his handlers are enemies of the people. Zbigniew Brzezinski (instigator of Al-Qaeda and the Afghan-Soviet war) is CEO of the BHO show. On the economy, regressive Skull & Bones and Wall Street figures set the tone. In military affairs, it's Gen. McPeak, the perpetrator of genocidal civilian bombing tactics.

      All unawares, the United States slipped into the grip of a soft coup last fall, the Brzezinski faction won over the power elite, and the neo-cons are unlamented lame ducks. Tarpley finds that "Zbig" controls two of the three front runners for the presidency -- Barack Obama and John McCain, but that Obama is the elitist favorite for a "new face" on a doddering empire.

      Obama got his entrée as a protegé of "Realpolitiker" Brzezinski. He is scripted to loftily fill the role of pseudo-savior, a key one for the planned hysteria of the "people power" coups, as perfected by Left CIA and NGO traveling circuses in Eastern Europe. Now the recipe is being franchised home to cook America's political process.

      Obama's backers make a laundry-list of the elite: the Rockefellers, Rand Corp., Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Chicago School of Economics, Bilderbergers - and the Ford Foundation six ways to Sunday. No wonder the manufactured messiah gets the lion's share of campaign cash from the corporations, and a free ride from their wholly owned media.

      Tarpley ought to be dean of social sciences in a prestigious university (if any of them aren't vassals of the robber baron foundations, Rockefeller and Ford). I happen to have a poli sci degree, but almost all of "Postmodern Coup" was new to me, for example:

      - American history is marked by cycles or "party realignments" of about 36 or 40 years, such as FDR's 1932 landslide or the upheavals of 1968. A few power cult strategists like Samuel Huntington know this. Under Brzezinski-Carter, they began planning ahead to subvert the cycle shift we are in now, first by the "War on Terror," now with the synthetic, pseudo-leftist Obama movement, to set the nation on a course they will determine until around 2050.

      - The Democrats repeatedly nominate foregone losers with their caucus system, tilted towards "Volvo-driving" Democrats who decide the primaries in red states, which the Dems never win in the GE. Obama continues this quaint tradition of "square-wheelers" which won't play in Peoria, like Mondale, Dukakis, McGovern etc.

      - How to recognize fascism in the bud? It doesn't start as a right-wing, top-down system. First it needs to gather strength from grass roots. Usually it spawns as a youth movement, often left-tinged, idealist, mystical, with stirring slogans, euphoria, and a theme of national unity and regeneration. Not so unlike "Obamania." Mussolini got his start as a leftist, socialist politico.

      - Why does Obama want to attack Pakistan, the world's 6th largest country, with almost 3 times more people than Iran, and 6 times more than Iraq? It's a Chinese ally, and to get at Russia, Brzezinski wants to isolate China, forcing it to attack Russia to get oil. A madcap gambit, that can only play the US into an even tighter corner.

      "Postmodern Coup" is a book with a mission -- to stave off the looming world-historical tragedy that Tarpley foresees. Yet it's about much more than "Manchurian candidate" Obama, or even Brzezinski and his earlier puppet, Jimmy Carter. Historian Tarpley draws on an unparalleled store of erudition, past precedents and inside knowledge of today's political players, and distills it here for our up-to-the-minute situation.

      This book is a crash course in the essentials you need to know about US and world politics, but the media never wanted you to.
      • vat0r, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9Just more conspiracy theory ***** if you ask me. But who's asking me right?
      • Wilarseny, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5I've seen you post this review more than a few times on these boards. I mean, come on, at least link to it, save us from having to scroll down.
      • revisrev, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2Please stop pimping your kindling on Digg.
      • EricSchC1, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Quotes w/out links does NOT constitute citing sources. At least not in a world where the internet exists.

        "The sky is green."
        -L.A. Times

        See how easy that was.
  • IdigObama, on 08/26/2008, -13/+65I saw this!

    McCains POW talk makes me sick!!

    I can't muster up any sympathy for him anymore.

    He has fell back on that playing card so much that I don't give a darn anymore.

    Can't even have a good laugh with Jay Leno these days for the old bumhole bring up his POW crap!


  • parabolee, on 08/26/2008, -10/+46He's cheapening the horror of his experience by using as a defacto answer to criticism.

    Clearly someone in his campaign told him how to respond to any questions regarding his inability to remember how many houses he has. Shameful.
  • AmericanElitist, on 08/26/2008, -8/+53When he started his political career he said he would never use his POW status to get ahead. One of his biggest flip-flops and a travesty to his fellow POWs as he cheapens the meaning.
    • JumpingJack79, on 08/26/2008, -2/+9Hey, who says he's using that answer because he wants to get ahead? I think he's only using it because he's unable to remember more than one answer.
      Is he supposed to remember names of countries, their borders, their presidents, the difference between Sunni and Shia and whatnot.. even the number of his houses?! Come on, give the old man a break (and get off his lawn)!
  • nicksorrells, on 08/26/2008, -8/+134in his defense, he was a POW
    • shadeOfGrey, on 08/26/2008, -0/+38That's true. I didn't consider that.
    • chr0nic21, on 08/26/2008, -8/+5In addition...hes also a dumb ass
    • Diggnabbit, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3Dugg for meta...
    • 1kewldude, on 08/26/2008, -8/+3sorry - had to do it - f**k, 2 of my friends died being POWs
    • Logicexe, on 08/26/2008, -1/+14He wasn't a POW, he was an enemy combatant who underwent enhanced interrogations.
      • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3and all this time i thought he made it up like that swift boat guy
  • xXRobbyXx, on 08/26/2008, -15/+19pow right in the kisser?
  • Suzpaz, on 08/26/2008, -14/+32What a douche.
    WE KNOW! YOU'VE TOLD US 100 TIMES! YOUR A POW! JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION!
    • IJstickI, on 08/26/2008, -6/+2he did
      • GeneralFault, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7So then, I must have misunderstood his answer. Was he saying that he did not remember how many houses he has because he was a POW? Was that a brain trauma thing? Or was he just bringing up an unrelated fact about his life and trying to distract from the question itself?
      • IJstickI, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1he wasn't asked why he forgot, he was asked how many he had. so he explained that he deserves every single house he owns, then said how many.
  • xine13, on 08/26/2008, -10/+18How can anyone criticize a P.O.W? He fought in NAM!!! If you're a pow, and married to a rich family, GET ON THAT TICKET!!! You too can become President. (sarcasm)
    • whiterice0, on 08/26/2008, -1/+6Wow, was that sarcasm? Oh, I see your parentheses now. Yes, it was sarcasm. What a biting and original wit you have.
  • Suzpaz, on 08/26/2008, -8/+31Can someone make a youtube video with clips of every time McCain says: "I was a POW". It would be fun..
    • Jeffler, on 08/26/2008, -0/+10Not only would it be longer than the 10 minute max, I'm starting to become uncertain that such a task wouldn't clog up Google's hard drive capacity...
    • cococrispies, on 08/26/2008, -0/+14a fun game would be every time hes doing an interview, take out a bottle of really cheap vodka and drink everytime he mentions being a POW. You will die
    • kgunn66, on 08/26/2008, -13/+0and follow it up with a video of every time Obama say "Change"...which means nothing...McCain gave up 5 1/2 years of his life as a POW...I think that affords him a lifetime of "using it"...
      • Suzpaz, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6That's exactly what they want you to believe. That his actions are justifiable by his POW status!
        "I left my wife" - I was a POW
        etc. etc.
      • jkoski, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8No.. no it doesn't. It dishonors all the other POWs and those who never made it home. It cheapens a real horror that he endured. Heroes are heroes because they downplay their heroism.
      • zombies187, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Yeah, Obamas not allowed to talk about change because I don't remember what he was talking about!
    • bearcat8543, on 08/26/2008, -7/+1already done...

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
      • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4...bastard!
        Ive just been rick rolled
    • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3give the daily show enough time, I'm sure they'll set up a good one.
  • guerresoanthony, on 08/26/2008, -29/+13the article fails to mention that at also at the same time, Obama is sitting in a house in Kansas city telling everyone on national tv he is in St. Louis. McCain actually doesn't own any houses, they are all owned by his wife's family so I could she where he could get confused, but Obama doesn't even know what city he is in...
    • Suzpaz, on 08/26/2008, -4/+11That's the lamest attempt of discrediting Obama to date.

      1: He said Kansas first
      2: The he said St. Louis (maybe coz he was just in St. Louis?)
      3: His daughter asked what city he was in, and he answered Kansas City.
    • Fallenshadow, on 08/26/2008, -4/+3He probably slipped because he didn't want to reveal his true location for security purposes, his life had just been threatened.
    • 3gibberish4q57, on 08/26/2008, -2/+10Really! Mixing up the names of two cities once is much worse than habitually confusing Sunni with Shi'ite Muslims, among other things. And Obama wasn't even a POW! No excuse!
    • enki25, on 08/26/2008, -7/+2Actually retard, when two people get married this thing happens. The possessions each of them once owned independently become "SHARED" between them, so that they now each have what the others have. I know conservatives aren't too keen on facts, but this is one of the principles of marriage. You know, that thing you keep saying is threatened by your latent homosexuality?
    • licnyc, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Cute but a guy who wants to control the largest economy in the world you would think he would at least pretend to take some interest is his own families finance- I am just going to throw that out there, it seems important.
    • lhbaker, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3What the ***** does one have to do with the other?
    • uptown, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Ever traveled for a couple weeks straight? I can tell you ... you completely lose track of where you are and where you just were. For him, (and McCain), it's got to be even worse. They've been travelling for over a year.
      • revisrev, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1So... if McCain actually owns no houses... then how can he understand the plight of the American homeowner? Sounds like you folks need to come up with a new ridiculous defense for that one.
  • slugicide, on 08/26/2008, -6/+175Cindy: John, you left the toilet seat up again.
    John: When I was a POW we didn't even have seats.
    • soot, on 08/26/2008, -3/+84John: At least I don't leave my makeup all over the bathroom like a trollop you *****.
    • chr0nic21, on 08/26/2008, -3/+18Cindy: At least I don't leave my wife when i found out that she just had a disfiguring car accident you dumb ass.
    • adamwho, on 08/26/2008, -1/+17You forgot to add "my friends"
    • toxicityj, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9you forgot the part where he cheats on her
    • AmericanElitist, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1you have to blend the two (and don't mean to steal credit, you guys have me rollin)

      Cindy: John, you left the toilet seat up again.
      John: When I was a POW we didn't even have seats you *****!
  • ScienceDoc, on 08/26/2008, -13/+16McSame was created by his father-in-law. His father-in-law made his money through mob connections. McSame and his "campaign" are one giant lie. He is an embarrassment to this country.
  • TheWriteGuy, on 08/26/2008, -8/+46Noun - Verb - POW
  • pintomp3, on 08/26/2008, -7/+24what happened to mccain not wanting to politicize his military record?
  • TheWriteGuy, on 08/26/2008, -6/+16Ever notice that instead of answering a question or even skillfully evading it, he prefers to cut a bad joke that has nothing at all to do with the question? He's trying to do that Reagan thing, but he's been doing it badly.
  • dblespresso, on 08/26/2008, -17/+10I for one want a canidate that has no money and is for sale to the highest bidder. hmm
    • ISIfunded911, on 08/26/2008, -1/+2Nader has no money and...sorry, he is not for sale.
      • uptown, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1I'm not even sure he's still got a pulse.....
    • SatoriSeeker, on 08/26/2008, -0/+10I for one want a candidate that lives in the world I live in. The one where I have to worry about money and can't put everything on my $500,000 limit credit cards like the McCains. Empathy is a funny like that. Most gov 'representatives' can't remember what it's like to be in normal people's shoes anymore - and they don't live in that reality on a day to day basis.
    • Liberame999, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9Johnny M isn't for sale ... he has already been bought ... by the beer interests, where he slaved tirelessly to prevent legislation in AZ which they opposed; by the savings and loan interests, who by proven account bribed him to support their interests. His campaign is run by lobbyists and industry insiders who expect big paybacks if they get lucky on his run ... and if past history is a guide, they are putting down pretty smart money. No, the 'sale' days for McCain are now over. Oh, and he was POW -- because he got shot down, after crashing multiple aircraft in every kind of boneheaded piloting maneuver imaginable. After nearly flunking out of the Naval Academy. What a guy.
  • bananasluggy, on 08/26/2008, -2/+18I'm waiting for the campy Batman-esque (Adam West batman) take on the debates, with cartoon letters appearing every time he says POW...
    • xthpsgodx, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Oddly enough his responses to questions remind me of Mayor West.
  • Adrian540, on 08/26/2008, -5/+37Is anyone else starting to see a parallel with McCain and Rudy "9/11" Giuliani?
    • WiretapStudios, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9They are both gigantic, self-absorbed, pompus, lying douches? Yeah, I caught that.
    • kgunn66, on 08/26/2008, -7/+0and "Change" Obama?
    • rdoger6424, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2I prefer to call him 9 "Rudy Giuliani" 11
    • KennMac, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3And go figure, Rudy is on McCain's VP short list.
  • oneiroi, on 08/26/2008, -4/+33If Obama's response to McCain calling him an elitist was, "You do know I grew up as an African American.", McCain would be yelling that he was playing the race card.

    Hopefully McCain using his "POW card" will begin to wear thin.
    • minox, on 08/26/2008, -15/+3Well the response from the Obama camp about him being elitist has been that his mother had to get food stamps. I think that is more obnoxious than anything McCain has said.
      • kds405, on 08/26/2008, -0/+15How is that obnoxious? McCain claims that Obama could never understand the plight of the middle class. He was not born rich and this is an example of how his own mother had to struggle.
      • zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1How so? He is not playing the 'race card' here if thats what you are implying.
  • whiterice0, on 08/26/2008, -25/+18Uggh. Will no one step in and save us from these obnoxious and ignorant huffingtonpost.com posts?
    • vexingmodstwo, on 08/26/2008, -9/+12Bury: Spam.

      That's all we can do.
      • smoothdogg00, on 08/26/2008, -4/+3I seriously think that huffpo articles go straight to the front page now, because the Digg crew knows they'll be a hit with the Dems.

        I've been burying EVERY huffpo article as spam for about 4 weeks now. How many people have to bury as spam before the site gets blocked?
      • Valujet, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5I digg every article I see by huffpo because morons like you can't stop complaining about how they hit the front page.
      • zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1Do sites get blocked?
    • blinkatron, on 08/26/2008, -4/+7What is ignorant about this? McCain continues to use his POW experience to dodge real questions about himself and his campaign. He doesn't even answer Jay's question until the end, and even then, he leaves out some of his properties.
      • whiterice0, on 08/26/2008, -5/+7Ignorance: the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness.
        The root word of ignorance is "ignore"

        You're ignoring one side of the information being presented to the public. When was the last time you actually listened to an unbiased, untainted representation of McCain's political stances? You do it all the with Obama.

        Make an educated choice, don't let pundits sway you.
      • kgunn66, on 08/26/2008, -4/+1it wasn't a "real question"...who the hell cares how many houses he owns?! since when is it a sin to live the American Dream?!
      • jkoke, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5kgunn, you aren't getting it. It doesn't matter how many houses he owns. It matters that he can't remember how many houses he owns.

        This matters for 2 reasons: 1) The fact that he doesn't know AND CAN'T EVEN VENTURE A GUESS means that he's so stinking rich that he doesn't know or care how many houses he has. Like, I own quite a few guitars. If someone asked me how many guitars I own, I would have to confess that I don't know exactly, but I still could say 6 or 7 and be pretty close.

        2) His entire campaign up to now has been based on labeling his opponent an elitist who is out of touch with everyday American's problems. This completely undercuts that because if you don't know the extent of your own personal wealth, you can't possibly understand the struggles of middle-class Americans.

        God bless John McCain for being filthy rich. He's living the dream. But that doesn't mean he should be President.
      • blinkatron, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3@jkoke: thank you, that is exactly true.

        @whiterice0: i don't understand why it matters where this video came from. i mean, it's not like i am pulling conjecture from an opinion article written by a liberal writer, i am commenting on direct quotes from McCain himself, and how he is abusing his POW status on this election. btw, i don't get any of my news from liberal or conservative sources, unless you think the ap and routers are "liberal." but if they are liberal, then there is no such thing as unbiasesd news.
    • Jeffler, on 08/26/2008, -8/+2I'm annoyed by the HPo spam...but because its always them, not because of the content itself. Their stuff has been pretty spot on, I just think it would be better if the front paging was spread around more than Hpo Hpo CNN Hpo CNN...
    • sealhands, on 08/26/2008, -2/+6one clip from the tonight show is not ignorant or obnoxious journalism, McCain by being the subject matter, inherently makes it ignorant and obnoxious.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -2/+10Who gives a ***** where this was posted? It's a clip from Jay Leno. *****, you want me to go post it on Youtube? Would that make you happy? It'd be the exact same damn content as it is here.
    • defwheezer, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5McCain's campaign has taken the same idea and given it an Internet-era twist. It also has taken the concept one step further.

      People who sign up for McCain's program receive reward points each time they place a “Buried- Huffington Post Spam” or “Barack Hussein Obama” or “I’m a Democrat, but I can’t vote for Obama after FISA” or “PUMA – Just Say No” or "Why Can't Obama win?" comment on one of the listed Web sites. Racially related or Muslim related comments receive double points.
      • zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+2I assume any comment remotely like that to be posted by paid shills.
    • SatoriSeeker, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5@parent and vexing.... It's funny, it's almost like you have a bias against reality. Perhaps Faux/Fox news is more to your liking. They will create for you such a beautiful reality of American might and moral-do-goodery that you'll probably wet yourself. They'll do this by stating all contradicting facts are opinions and that all supporting opinions are facts. If that doesn't work they'll just cut your mic and tell you to shut your dirty lib mouth.
    • jkoski, on 08/26/2008, -2/+4I read HuffPo and even I'm getting sick of their articles popping up here.
    • wayn0x, on 08/26/2008, -4/+2Please.

      I hold a mediocre understanding of politics, But seeing Digg getting overrun by rabid Obama supporters makes me want to cry. Sadly, the only way to counter these seemingly-innumerable posts is to just keep on burying.
      • zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1Yes, your understanding IS mediocre. And you cry so easily. It makes me cringe. Oh wait... are you a chick?
    • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -1/+2nope
    • IIAmusedII, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Go back to AM radio if you don't like it.
  • PakoBedejo, on 08/26/2008, -7/+23POW...more like POS
  • BXRWXR, on 08/26/2008, -11/+21I'm a POW!
    Suck My dick!
    I'm a POWWWWWW!
  • nastronomical, on 08/26/2008, -31/+17Liberals hate his record and the fact that he was a POW because it shames you and reminds you that he is more man in one minute than you will ever be in a lifetime....suck it up bitches.
    • WasabiBomb, on 08/26/2008, -4/+10Noun-verb-POW, bitch.
    • churler, on 08/26/2008, -6/+1I wouldn't mind some Vietnamese soldiers playing tiddly-winks with my nipples every once in awhile.
    • deweyhewson, on 08/26/2008, -3/+13I am very much a liberal, and respect what McCain went through.

      However, it in no way makes him qualified to be the President, and it is all the more distasteful the way McCain parades it around as some sort of defense, and ignores it completely when choosing to support our own "aggressive interrogation techniques."

      As for his record, Republicans just choose to ignore it.
      • sealhands, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5if being a POW and getting tortured qualifies you for presidency, the US must have a presidential training camp in Gitmo.
      • rdoger6424, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3@sealhands
        They don't torture in Gitmo, only undergo intense physical interrogation techniques (such as torture)
    • enki25, on 08/26/2008, -3/+10haha, more man in one minute. Could you be any more gay?
    • NOFXY, on 08/26/2008, -0/+10How does being a POW make you any more of a man than anyone else? Was it his decision to get caught? Would anyone else have reacted any different to being a POW? I honestly don't get it. What makes him special? If he was any kind of man he wouldn't have left his disfigured wife for a younger billionaire heiress, that just proves to me that he's anything BUT a man.
    • RetlawST, on 08/26/2008, -0/+7A man's life is made up of more than a singularity in his past. It may shape him, it may grant him insight to human suffering, but in the end people should look at the whole of his actions. If we wanted to pigeonhole our a view of a man that way Hitler was merely a failed painter, Lincoln a school teacher, and FDR a victim of polio.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -0/+10Suck what up? I was embarrassed to watch him go out and shamelessly play the POW card like that. I used to be a big fan of McCain - I disagreed with his politics, but I very much respected him. Now, though, God, now I can't bear to watch him do this to himself.
    • an0nymous, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4Has anyone actually seen the videotape of the pro vietcong propaganda he made?
      • SatoriSeeker, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2No but I'd like to, got a link?
      • an0nymous, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2No, it was an honest question. It would seem to me that after 35 years it could probably be made available via a FOIA act.
    • licnyc, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5So nothing about being woefully unequipped to handle the economy? anything?
    • lhbaker, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6Congratulations to John McCain for crashing his plane. It's a great prerequisite for crashing an entire country.
  • Cyrock, on 08/26/2008, -5/+20John McCain only says three things; a noun, a verb, and POW.
    • atarideath, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Noun- I
      Verb-Was
      (a)
      POW
    • imsoclever, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9Jay: How many houses do you own?
      McCain: Tree ***** POW
      • rdoger6424, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5***** you, two of my friends died fighting the Viet Cong in Tree ***** Pow
  • JCH897, on 08/26/2008, -3/+34I would really like to see McCain actually answer a question he's asked. No matter how simple, it would at least be proof that he can answer without equivocation and sneaking around it.

    Reporter: Mr. McCain, what is your favorite color?

    John McCain: Well, this isn't exactly a question about my favorite color as much as it is about the experience to know what your favorite color is. And if anyone knows experience, it's me. I was a POW for years and I have the leadership skills necessary to lead this country to success.
    • SatoriSeeker, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9His favorite color is POWder Blue.
      • AmericanElitist, on 08/27/2008, -0/+4and his favorite food is kung POW chicken
  • Sucka27, on 08/26/2008, -4/+22Don't worry, bragging like this ***** Giuliani and it should catch up to McCain soon enough.
    • kefkaantakrist, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0I think Julie ***** himself by not campaigning until the contest was over.
    • apextek, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2911 911 911...sept 11....
      pow pow pow ... war hero p@wn, I mean pow....
  • nastronomical, on 08/26/2008, -15/+6SO TRUE

    I for one want a canidate that has no money and is for sale to the highest bidder. hmm
    • mpodlesny, on 08/26/2008, -6/+1LOL!

      Then Obama...oh wait he isn't your man either, his wife makes $315,000 per year and he has made millions from his book deals as well as underhanded real estate deals with convicted slumlord fellons.
    • DavidTrom, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4here guys, you obviously never hear about this:



      "The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB)."

      in true form to a Republican, this scandal wasn't not about a few 100K
      It was about (according with conservative estimates) 2-3 BILLION $


      Let me guess your answer;

      Ohh but he is a POW, how do you dare!!!!



      ........1984, Lincoln's assets had increased from $1.1 billion to $5.5 billion.[4]
  • cephelo, on 08/26/2008, -5/+25A noun, a verb, and POW. Classy.
  • jshooter1377, on 08/26/2008, -4/+6He sounds like a broken record!
  • TheMayor, on 08/26/2008, -25/+13Wow--an anti-McCain hitjob coming from the likes of the Huffington Post, with anti-McCain comments coming from brainwashed obamabot idiots. How very unique, considering this is Digg and all.
    • nickels, on 08/26/2008, -4/+11Wow--a post complaining about The Huffington post as a source and Obama loving diggers. And somehow there isn't a shred of info that pertains to the article or adds anything to the discussion. How unique.
      • TheMayor, on 08/26/2008, -4/+3Wow--a post complaining of a post that was complaining of the biased huffington post and the legion of obama idiots. And somehow there isn't a shred of info that pertains to the article or post or adds anything to the discussion. How unique.
    • jnava121, on 08/26/2008, -9/+3very credible website,

      I was on the fence about voting for obama ya know and all the huffington posts articles about comparing and contrasting energy policies, taxes, international policy...

      oh wait i forgot obama has none ... *****... well the whole mcCain eats babies article definitely swayed me; a logical conservative, debating facts, to swing my vote !!!

      hahahahh

      funny the other aticles are like : " Wow michele is so cute she gave such a wonderful speech ! " and those kids are precious! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

      nope , no debating .... none on digg..... too complicated
      • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3What's a matter? You afraid to be humiliated for supporting a pathetic, washed-up has-been like McCain? Is that why you won't debate? Then, too, I guess it's a lot easier to make fun of people you disagree with than to actually respond to the actual article. Tell me - Jay Leno comes out and jokes about McCain's houses, and McCain humiliates himself by bringing up the POW business - do you have an actual response to that, or are you just gonna keep up insulting people to avoid looking stupid?
    • znicket, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8Well, yeah, but you have to admit that the clip shows McCain in a very bad light. Why in the world bring up his POW experience when asked about his houses?
    • adamwho, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7So the video is fake? He wasn't on Jay Leno?
      • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Well, clearly. It was on Huffington Post so it has to be made up.
  • bsolidgold, on 08/26/2008, -5/+14What a douche.
  • AndrewDB, on 08/26/2008, -2/+13Are people beginning to see that John McCain is turning POW into 9/11 now? I've been saying this for a matter of months.. Yeesh.
  • norman619, on 08/26/2008, -11/+9This is more class envy. He shouldn't have to defend his ownership of x number of houses. It's really none of our business. It has no baring on his ability to run the country. This is more partisan crap for the metal midgets/lemmings to lap up and ask for more. What we SHOULD be asking BOTH of these candidates is what was the last executive position you held and how did it go? It's pretty sad that the ignorant people overlooked the people on both sides with the relevant experience for charisma and a military history. We will get the leader we deserve not the one we need.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5You're absolutely right - the number of houses he has is completely irrelevant. It's his reactions when people bring up the subject that are the problem. If it's not a big deal at all, why does he make such a big deal about it?
    • lhbaker, on 08/26/2008, -3/+8The number of houses he owns became an issue when he labled Obama as an elitist. In that light, the fact that he isn't even aware of how many houses he had is pure comedy gold. How many people do you associate with who don't know how many houses they have? It's called being out of touch, and isn't a quality we want in our president.
      • BobSconce, on 08/26/2008, -2/+1So, his wife is a billionaire who has a number of investment properties. If I were to ask you how many mutual funds your retirement money was divested in, would you know the correct answer? (Assuming, that is, that you've been in the work force long enough to accumulate some.)

        The real scandal here isn't that McCain didn't know the answer to the question. The scandal is that it was completely irrelevant and was just some reporter playing gotcha politics. It didn't matter what McCain answered, he was trapped. Consider the alternatives:
        (1) McCain answers the correct number (a number larger than 2), and is branded an elitist
        (2) McCain answers the wrong number, and then some research lacky goes out, finds more, and then the news is that McCain lied
        (3) McCain says "I don't know," and is branded an elitist.
        (4) McCain says (what he should have): "Why the hell are you asking me that, you pompous jackass?" and is branded for being just like Joe Biden.
      • norman619, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1The number of houses own owns has nothing to do with being an elitist. You seem to need a vocabulary lesson.

        e·lit·ism – noun
        1. practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
        2. consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
        [Origin: 1950–55; elite + -ism]

        —Related forms
        e·lit·ist, noun, adjective

        Plus you are incredibly naive if you think either of these two are "in touch" with the average person in this country. They are both privileged. They are both part of the "elite" you seem to be so hung up on. We haven't had a real world "of the people" type of candidate in decades.
    • cadmiumpaint, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6the house issue shows that he is completely out of touch with working Americans, families and everyone else who is struggling in this economy just to get by.

      Its easy for the rich guy on the hill to look down from his palatial estates and say "everything looks fine"
      • norman619, on 08/26/2008, -2/+1Please show me how this is any deffrernt from Obama? If you think Obama is "in touch" with the working Amercians you are a fool. Both these clowns haven't known what it is to have to hold down a real 9 to 5 job for a living in a very LONG time. Neither of these men are of the people. Wake the hell up.
    • AmericanElitist, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1ignorant - it's not that he doesn't have the right to brag about having so many houses - sure, that's great, making it rich is one of the american dreams - the point is that if he can't even remember how many houses he is because he has so many, how can he possibly identify with the middle class? and obviously he can't which is why his tax plan benefits the rich at the expense of the middle class and the poor - the majority of americans that a president is supposed to look out for and the group that he clearly is out of touch with. damn, don't you get it yet? no wonder we've had the worst president ever for the last 8 years. THINK ABOUT IT!
  • ColonelJessup, on 08/26/2008, -4/+5And what was all that ***** about Vietnam? What the *****, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the ***** are you talking about?
    • petebot, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Those rich *****! This whole ***** thing... I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this ***** strumpet...
      • wayn0x, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0Are you implying sir, that you fought in Vietnam?
      • petebot, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2@waynox: watch the big lebowski.
  • stujada, on 08/26/2008, -5/+15Dream ticket: McCain/Giuliani... noun, verb, POW - 9/11
  • shauncorleone, on 08/26/2008, -14/+9I find it odd that not a single comment yet mentions the fact that he shouldn't have to defend the "house issue", which is a laughable term being a non-issue. The guy married up financially, and if they were to divorce tomorrow he surely wouldn't have as many houses.

    As for the "POW Card", seems to me he's only using his largest defining characteristic as much as Obama's "I don't look like the guys on dollar bills". I can't really stand either, but the shallow media requires them to come back to non-issues when their actions as public servants are clearly more important.
    • rald84, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7its the economy stupid.
      • shauncorleone, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2How many houses his wife can afford has nothing to do with his economic plans, stupid. That's a parallel Obama drew claiming how McCain is out of touch, when his own wife made at least $300k last year @ U of Chicago hospitals. If family earnings are supposed to be an indicator of how "in touch" a politician is with regular joes, then you'd be better off not voting at all.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7Firstly, people only brought up the house issue in response to his allegations that Obama is an elitist. I love how conservatives don't want to talk about that, and instead just want to pretend that McCain is being criticized over the number of houses he owns. Nobody's saying he can't have a lot of houses - we're just saying he kind of forfeits his right to criticize others for being elitist.

      Secondly, it was ***** Jay Leno - nobody was attacking him, nobody was backing him into a corner, Jay Leno was just joking around, and McCain got defensive about it.
  • dlm85, on 08/26/2008, -6/+12My friends, I was a POW.
    • ickybod, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8dlm85 for president! You, sir, have my vote!
      • dlm85, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Thank you, Rudy 9/11 will be my running mate.

        Fear and Hate in '08.
  • mpodlesny, on 08/26/2008, -16/+10You Obama supporters are funny with your answers. You treat being a POW as the equivalent as going to Walmart and buying a new shirt. I for one have never been a POW so I have no idea what its like or what he went through, however the man did serve his country and that takes character. But don't worry because after Novemeber 4th you won't have to worry about the topic anymore because won't need to bring it up after he is elected.

    In a year where the Democrats couldn't lose because of George W. Bush, they once again have found a way to shoot themselves in the foot and nominate their most unelectable person. You would have been better off with Hillary, she could beat McCain. Barack Obama really has no chance.
    • KidDynamo0, on 08/26/2008, -2/+9Yeah Republicans are funny too. They have short memories about how they belittled Kerry services to this country with their purple band-aids. No one is belittling McCain's service but him. Using it as a shield is disgusting and pathetic.
    • saddino, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7"however the man did serve his country and that takes character"

      er, yeah, just like Kerry whose "character" was slammed by the swift boaters. amazing how hypocritical the 'pubs can get.
    • mpodlesny, on 08/26/2008, -4/+3Ah it all makes sense now you guys are bitter. Sore losers...because your candidates could not beat an unpopular president. Get ready for 4 more years, looks like another election the democrats will lose.

      Don't worry Hillary will win in 2012 and then you guys can all sleep better knowing she can answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning.

      LOL! Sore Losers!! LOL!
    • colincornaby, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4So what should be the line? If he cheats on his wife, is that ok because he was a POW? He lies to the American people, is that ok because he's a POW? He runs false campaign ads, is that ok because he's a POW?

      What's next, he invades a country based on false intelligence, but that's ok because he's a POW? I'm sorry, but I'm not voting for a president that's constantly full of excuses instead of results.
      • mpodlesny, on 08/26/2008, -2/+1but you'll vote for someone with no experience at anything...that makes a whole lot of sense...can tell you dont run a successful business
      • jkoski, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Yeah! Like George W. Bush ran successful businesses!......

        ....oh.... wait....
  • soot, on 08/26/2008, -6/+35Sorry... John McCain went through hell in Vietnam and I commend him for his sacrifice, but the presidency isn't a reward for the tested, its a platform for people with the right ideas to put them to work. And frankly John McCain has the wrong ideas.

    He seems to be the only one who ever brings his POW status up anymore.
    • elf25, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4This US Veteran Dispatch wrote about Sen. John McCain in October 1999. http://www.usvetdsp.com/smith_mc.htm


      The severely wounded McCain was finally thrown on the back of a truck and hauled to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp. Immediately, his captors began to interrogate him using sadistic methods they had perfected on hundreds of captured U.S. servicemen before him.

      His interrogators demanded military information. When he refused, his guards kicked and pounded him mercilessly.

      McCain admits that three to four days after he was captured, he promised the Vietnamese, "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital."

      McCain also admits that the Vietnamese rushed him to a hospital, but denies he was given "special medical treatment" because of his promise.

      He claims he was given medical care normally unavailable to captured Americans only because the Vietnamese learned he was the son of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific including those fighting in Vietnam.

      The Vietnamese figured that because POW McCain's father was of such high military rank that he was of royalty or the governing circle in the United States. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured "the crown prince"and treated him as a "special prisoner."

      Less than two weeks after McCain was taken to a hospital, Hanoi's press began quoting him giving specific military information, including the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, numbers of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight, information about location of rescue ships and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place.

      There is also evidence that McCain received "special" medical treatment from a Soviet physician.

      After he was out of the hospital, McCain continued cooperating with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. He made radio broadcasts for the communists and met with foreign delegations, including the Cubans. He was interviewed by at least two North Vietnamese generals one of whom was Vietnam's national hero, General Vo Nguyen Giap.

      On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service story headlined "PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral," reported one of McCain's radio broadcasts: "Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the United States commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner.

      "The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam."

      McCain says he violated the Code of Conduct only when the North Vietnamese brutally tortured him. He further claims that he was so distraught afterwards that he tried to commit suicide. He has never explained why his "aid to the enemy" continued for more than three years.

      Even though there are no reports in the public record from other POWs who witnessed McCain's claims of torture and heroics or his attempted suicide, the American media has accepted his version of events word for word, no questions asked."
      • revisrev, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2Yea, not exactly James Stockdale is he?

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale

        Stockdale was a POW, and when they tried to use him for propaganda, did he allow it? No, he cut his own scalp with a knife, and then when that healed and they tried again, there was no accessible knife, so what did he do? He beat himself with a chair until he was unpresentable. Of course, now he's only remembered as the guy that helped blow it for Perot, because he did a bad job of talking over the people's heads at the VP debate.

        Stockdale's behavior as a POW was exemplary. If we're going to elect somebody based on their experience as a POW it should probably be him. However, he's damned smart, and he's a professor, so I suppose he's too much of an elitist.
  • chelsealeaf, on 08/26/2008, -7/+8How could anyone with even the slightest inkling of rational thought even feel McCain is worthy to run ANYTHING?
    I want a president to be proud of.
    • mpodlesny, on 08/26/2008, -4/+1and I want a president who is qualified for the job....this isn't little league baseball where at the end of the day you are proud of your kid because he gave a good effort....this is a job interview for the most important position in the world. As yourself this question, if you ran a multi billion dollar corporation, would you hire somebody with 2 years working experience to run...probably not.
      • revisrev, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Well is the guy with 2 years experience damned smart and bubbling with good ideas? Is the other option some anger-prone geezer with authoritarian leanings?
  • mortsahl, on 08/26/2008, -19/+8Let's talk about family values ... about Obama's half brother living in the slums of Kenya on less than $1.00 a day. He is particularly proud that he is "good with my fists". Obama is the guy I want looking after my family's needs.
    • kds405, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5His brother has said that the media has exaggerated his conditions and he is proud of his life in Kenya. He has asked for no help from Obama and said he wouldn't accept any. The man is nothing but a stranger to Obama and, while blood related, not a member of his family.
      • mortsahl, on 08/26/2008, -5/+1"His brother has said ..." ... show me the reference

        If you have siblings I hope you treat them better than letting them live on $1 a day and sleep in the gutters. Obama, such a fine human being. Next he'll be blowing up things.
      • bruce86, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1You know its funny as someone who is a conservative you seem pretty infatuated with the idea of a forced welfare or nanny state, and giving away money to strangers. Talk about hypocrisy there.

        Oh they are pretty much strangers he said. It was in the same article you cite the "Good with my fists" quote.
      • kds405, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.oba ...
  • vexingmodstwo, on 08/26/2008, -20/+12What Obamabots can't seem to grasp is that the POW thing works better than Obama's "Hope and Change" thing.

    OR they do realize it and are pissed off that their candidate doesn't have anything that plays better.
    • lhbaker, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5The POW thing isn't actually working for him at all. It loses effectiveness every times he uses it, especially when answering a non-attack from a comedian.
    • TheInformer, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4A question:
      Why isn't Obama up by 10, 20, or 30% in the polls? McCain's so eeeevil, ignorant, bumbling, old, blah blah blah. How could he possibly stay up with the Obama, the Messiah?

      The Obama spewage will increase and become nastier as the lection cycle continues if Obama doesn't pull way ahead in the polls. Count on it.
      • jkoski, on 08/26/2008, -2/+2He isn't up by that much because of racism.

        Let me be clear: it's not racism because you disagree with his policies or think that he's not qualified. If you don't like him for any other reason than the color of his skin I'M NOT CALLING YOU A RACIST. There are just too many people that won't vote for ANYONE for president if they happen to be black.
    • cadmiumpaint, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1ask Gulliani how well envoking 9-11 worked for him.

      McCain is just giving Saturday Night Live unlimited material.
  • SOS84, on 08/26/2008, -6/+13What else is McCain going to do. Obama owns every single issue. This has been has nothing to run on. His platform is empty rhetoric and pandering to the domestic terrorists (neo-cons and evangelicals) on the right only makes him look more shallow and unqualified for office. He should save himself and our country from further embarrassment and concede now before Obama cleans his clock come November.
    • TheInformer, on 08/26/2008, -2/+2Digg users' blind allegiance and article spamming and rhetoric repeating for Obama will help Obama just like it helped Ron Paul.

      Oh wait.
      • revisrev, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2Digg helped Ron Paul immensely, but at the end of the day it wasn't enough.
    • lazyfisherman, on 08/26/2008, -1/+0Unfortunately, there are tons of people planning to vote for McCain. Boomers. Old people. Retired people. They don't get Obama. They don't know what he stands for. The attack ads wear them down and they will vote for McCain because he's not Obama.
    • bossm4n, on 08/27/2008, -1/+1Obama owns him on every single issue? Thanks, I needed a good laugh before calling it a night. Seriously, if you think socialism, redistribution of wealth, higher taxes on the middle class, especially in the form of doubling capital gains tax is owning McCain on the issues, then you're the sheep following the savior like all the other Obamabots.
      • SOS84, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1You are a moron. Have you actually looked at his tax plan? While not perfect, it WILL lower middle class taxes unlike McCain's plan to raise them while making the wealthy pay their fair share which they never have, EVER.
  • zenithmbr, on 08/26/2008, -11/+5Avoid giving huffpost ad revenue:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37O08IJstQ
    • mugicha, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3What's wrong with giving them ad revenue?
  • houseofhamez, on 08/26/2008, -9/+41OK I'm going to say it. I'll probably get ostracized by the Right wing, but I don't care. SO WHAT if McCain was a POW! There have been thousands of POW's. So what if he didn't give the enemy information. There have been thousands of POW's who didn't give information. According to his and Bush's definitions of torture, McCain wasn't tortured. The same things that happened to him, as horrible as they were, are done to our enemies on a daily basis, and McCain turns a blind eye to them. He isn't a hero for being held captive. He FAILED to do his job in Viet Nam. He was shot down, mission FAILED!!!!! I am absolutely sick and tired of the press coddling him and acting like he is Jesus re-incarnate or something. If it were Obama who was shot down, McCain's camp would label him a traitor because he wasted American military aircraft and other supplies.

    Get off your stupid "I was a POW" crap McCain. Everybody wake up to the fact that the man is a liar and not a hero.
    • jussipupu, on 08/26/2008, -5/+2Whaa, wha whaaa, wha wha, boo hoo. I'm sick of all the whining too. Right, he was NOT tortured. Not at all. The Vietnamese may have used enhanced interrogation techniques on him, you know, just in case McCain knew where a ticking bomb was, but torture, no way.

      And he didn't talk because he didn't know anything. If he did he would have sang like a canary.
      • elf25, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2McCain sang like a canary and should have been hanged for treason and collaborating with the enemy but he was an Admirals son. see my post above!
    • santaliqueur, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6Criticized by the right wing? Not likely to happen here.
    • cyberprunes, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3I agree with most of that. I disagree about not being a hero. Being held captive in Vietnam
      for over 5 years,enduring torture,refusing to be released and refusing to give up information is pretty ***** admirable. Having said that, I will not be voting Republican this year.
      • AmericanElitist, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1absolutely admirable. does it make him a hero though? wwjd? what would john wayne do?
    • FuzzyDustBall, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3Well if you are mad about him being shot down, you should check out his bio on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain apparently he had a hard time keeping a plane in the air even when he was not being shot at (he crashed 2 plane) makes me wonder of he was actually shot down.
    • bossm4n, on 08/27/2008, -3/+1Try actually reading the history of the man before making up a bunch of worthless *****. And to say that neither him or Bush define his ordeal as torture is blatantly false. McCain was put through a hell of a lot more than waterboarding, and for 5 1/2 years. And sang like a canary, he gave them a bunch of useless crap, including the names of a bunch of football players instead of his troops. Do I think being a POW makes him presidential material, of course not, but he has plenty of noteworthy time and experience in the senate that makes him a viable candidate. Even if his only accomplishment was that he was a POW, it's still superior to anything Obama and his group of racist preachers and terrorist friends bring to the party.
      • houseofhamez, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1Well, according to his own statements McCain was forced to stand for prolonged periods, sit for prolonged periods, kept awake for extended periods, kept in a confined space for prolonged periods and beaten. All of these tactics, plus waterboarding are used routinely on people whom we hold prisoner. Same exact things. Please tell me otherwise, because I'm going by what he has stated.
    • beardo877, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0You don't get to hold such a double standard right there. If you think that Bush's standards of torture are wrong (when really you have to blame Gonzalez for his interpretation of the Geneva Convention, etc that was given to Bush)... then what was done to McCain was wrong. How convenient it is for you to turn things around in such a way that supports your argument at any given time. You should be in politics.

      And he failed to do his job? Are you kidding me? He flew 20-something missions before that.. it one of the worst air battle zones for US fighters since the Zero flew the skies for Japan. He did his job over, and over, and over again... and then he got shot down. When was the last time you got shot at? When was the last time you spent a day in an theatre where everyone was trying to kill you? Have you ever thought of things from a service member's point of view? Seriously though, please take this in the literal definition of the word and not name calling here, but honestly, how ignorant of the life of a pilot/soldier are you? Have YOU spent one day as an enlisted member or officer of ANY branch in the United States military, or is it just easy to sit idly at home criticizing others for things you haven't even tried.

      Like him or not, McCain has earned the right to walk around with a big POW flag flying around him, and short of someone that has been given the Medal of Honor, there isn't someone I respect more than a prisoner of war, and yet somehow I expect you haven't the slightest bit of appreciation of what any of that means.
      • houseofhamez, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I'm not the one holding a double standard, I'm pointing out the fact that McCain is using a double standard and has promoted that by supporting Bush and his definition of torture. He has stated and supported a (ahem) president who argues that the above mentioned interrogation methods are not torture. My point is that if he says it isn't torture when we do it to people we don't like, then it isn't torture when it happens to us. By the way, I do believe that it is torture under any circumstances. I am pointing out his two faced policies.

        As far as his failing to do his job, it's like this. Yes, he flew twenty some missions before being shot down. He also crashed two jets in the course of those missions, so a total of three jets were destroyed/damaged while he was in control of them. Of course this is on a completely different scale, but I am a chef. If I burn someone's dinner, I have failed at my job, not to say that I am a failure, but I failed. When McCain crashed jets, he failed to do his job. This is not to say that he is a complete failure, but failing doesn't make one a hero.

        No, I have never spent a day in a theatre of war. As a conscientious objector, I refuse to engage in combat. I was a child during Viet Nam, but if I had been an adult, I would have refused to go to war. I would have worked for the Red Cross or found some way to serve humanity rather than kill it.

        Yes McCain was a POW and I am certainly glad that I never have been. It must have been a horrible experience for him and anyone else who has endured the treatment that he did. I wish that the human race could come to a point that we could overcome the feeling that we need to kill one another and eliminate war and prisoners of war altogether.

        I have known many people who were in Viet Nam, some of whom were POW's. Are you aware of the fact that many of the guys you see standing on the off ramps and in front of stores were in Nam? Quite a few of them were POW's whose lives have been shattered. Do you talk to them when you see them? Do you take the time to listen to their stories and get to know them, or do you tell them to get a job? These aren't the privileged ones with fathers in positions of power, these are the ones who went because their country called them to go and they did what they were told to do. Do you know these people, because I do. Of all of the veterans I've known in my lifetime, all the former POW's I've befriended while working in soup kitchens and homeless shelters, I've never met one who talked about being a POW as much as McCain. It's his answer to any and every question, and I find it to be disingenuous and degrading to himself and others who share similar histories.

        So no, I cannot appreciate it from his perspective, but I've worked with and known plenty of people who can. I've done what I could to help them put the pieces of their lives back together.
      • houseofhamez, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1I have discovered that I was ignorant concerning McCain's service record. He didn't crash two planes while serving in Viet Nam. This link provides a good deal of information concerning his service to our country. www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/mccain_post_card_word[1].pdf
      • beardo877, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Weak cheese bringing something from a website so obviously anti-McCain. They couldn't even take the time to edit over their beloved postcard... never mind bring any research to the table to back up any of the 'facts'. It is just as reputable as me saying "Michelle Obama stays thin by eating babies." It is in digital print now, so it must be true.
  • PrezMcCain, on 08/26/2008, -4/+9Let's not forget that I was a POW.

    And that I like to date models.

    It's good to be me.
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