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View Poll Results: Does John McCain have Military Leadership experience?
Yes 21 58.33%
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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If you wish to say "so" about an answer to the subject of the thread, why the apoplexy about it from you?

Frothy partisanship over something you care little about says otherwise.

Clever ruse.

merely pointing out to the right winged partisans here , you included, that their hero is tarnished...

they don't care...
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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merely pointing out to the right winged partisans here , you included, that their hero is tarnished...

they don't care...
Hmmm. I don't recall seeing anyone declare that McCain is their hero.

Got a link to such?

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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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okay one more time, *sigh* so I'll elucidate...... COMPARATIVELY you know, between the candidates, the 2 candidates,mccain wins that issue….is that plain enough or what, Christ.
no.

IMO, having military experience does NOT give one the sound judgement required to command our military during a time of war.

is that too difficult for you to understand?

or is it that your blind allegience to the republican party trumps all arguements to the contrary?
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oh wtf.......okay folks we get it.....
having problems understanding Mccain's own words? no wonder, you keep banging your head on the table...

psst, Impy... mccain said he gave information to his captors... that was a nono at the time... a big nono...
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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no.

IMO, having military experience does NOT give one the sound judgement required to command our military during a time of war.

is that too difficult for you to understand?

or is it that your blind allegience to the republican party trumps all arguements to the contrary?
Okie dokie, then. If McCain's military experience gives you nothing, then no experience must also give you nothing.

A wash for your making a decision about any skills in that area.

It took several silly and frothy posts for you to get to the point, but I suspect there was more of an agenda involved on your end.
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I don't know. Neither do you.

The most either of us can do is guess.

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well you can read some of the links I have posted quoting those who do know... or you could just blindly believe mccain is super cuz he was in the navy... I don't really care cuz I know I won't be changing any right winger minds anywhere anytime...

waves to the lurkers...

they will understand though... as it is to THEM I provide the information...

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No, and neither would anyone else - because no doc just out of medical school is going to be doing surgery.

Fatally flawed analogy there.

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fatally flawed was my point, Matt... thanks for seeing it... it went right over the head of he to whom I presented it earlier...



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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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Horseshit.

It's specualtion from someone who supported one of McCain's opponents...
it is also horseshit because it is factually incorrect. If you look at the actual footage of the incident, the only thing behind McCain's aircraft is the sea. In fact , the aircraft that had the malfunction was on the other side of the flight deck from McCain's aircraft.
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well you can read some of the links I have posted quoting those who do know... or you could just blindly believe mccain is super cuz he was in the navy... I don't really care cuz I know I won't be changing any right winger minds anywhere anytime...

waves to the lurkers...

they will understand though... as it is to THEM I provide the information...

If you want to provide information to the "lurkers", get a blog.

This is a discussion forum.

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How about you back up your fallacious claims that McCain ever said “the Shias in Iran are training Al Qaeda to kill the Shias in Iraq”. The fact is, the Iranians did assist in training al Qaeda. I’ve provided references a few times already, you just don’t want to believe them because it hurts your position. You need to change your avatar to a ostrich.

BTW, I’m not much of a McCain fan.
it's not my claim... it's McCain's... ask him to back it up... he won't because he misspoke and was corrected by his good pal, Joe Lie-berman...

you posted the same link twice... that's not the same thing as posting two different links...

my position on this thread is that even though mccain has military experience, he is not qualified to be commander in chief during time of war...

do try to keep up...

did you find the strawman link I gave you yesterday or do you want me to post it for you again?

How about commenting on any of the links I have put up concerning mccain's military experience in this thread?

Or is your only game attack the messenger?

you're not?
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Of course, serving as a Commanding Officer, which was one of McCain's billets, does...

yawn... link?

I thought this site encouraged the posters to back up their claims of this or that with links? Or is that just the lefties that have to do it?
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Hmmm. I don't recall seeing anyone declare that McCain is their hero.

Got a link to such?

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reread the thread matt...
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yawn... link?

I thought this site encouraged the posters to back up their claims of this or that with links? Or is that just the lefties that have to do it?
Lt. Commander John McCain. It's not that difficult.

But, at least we see you admitting that JSM, indeed, does have military experience - the question posed in the thread.
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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reread the thread matt...
Use the search and see. Your strawmen abound.
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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reread the thread matt...
I did. I also searched it.

You claimed he was someone's hero, but apart from your speaking for another poster, nobody here has made such a claim.

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