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In the discussion thread: McCain on Bin Laden raid: 'The thing about heroes, they don't brag' [View all]

Tue May 1, 2012, 07:33 AM

19. Stating facts is different than bragging

He did it, everyone knows it, and he gets to claim it. Bragging would be claiming that it was easy and the other side was sloppy for not having done it sooner, and he doesn't do this. They just hear it that way out of a sense of true inadequacy.

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30 replies	Author	Time	Post
McCain on Bin Laden raid: 'The thing about heroes, they don't brag' [View all]	shawn703	Apr 2012	OP
The lies coming from these people	shawn703	Apr 2012	#1
How would he know? mcCains just a guy who crashed planes	Champion Jack	Apr 2012	#2
ZING nt	wendylaroux	Apr 2012	#10
Heroes sure as hell DON'T brag but cowardly little mama's boys do	tularetom	Apr 2012	#3
Heroes don't brag. Look at Audie Murphy. He didn't brag. He just wrote a book about his exploits...	Journeyman	Apr 2012	#4
Bush didn't do it..bin Laden was too useful as Emmanuel Goldstein...	rfranklin	Apr 2012	#5
look out, Obama!	Enrique	Apr 2012	#6
McCain just wrote a goddamn book about himself and his heroism...	rfranklin	Apr 2012	#7
John Rootin-Tootin McCain	C_U_L8R	Apr 2012	#8
Said the man who has run in every election since the 1960s as a "war hero".	applegrove	Apr 2012	#9
McCain is a fucking liar assbag...	Drunken Irishman	Apr 2012	#11
Just look at how the Republicans gave the order at Tora Bora	shawn703	Apr 2012	#12
Except for you John. Your entire career has been based upon the	Dawson Leery	Apr 2012	#13
When did Obama claim to be a hero?	BlueStater	Apr 2012	#14
Exactly. Obama isn't a hero, he's a leader. Something McCain never has been.	Drunken Irishman	Apr 2012	#16
You can say that again...Remembering "Mission Accomplished"	Tippy	May 2012	#20
This from a man who spent his entire political career bragging about his own heroism!	Liberal_Stalwart71	Apr 2012	#15
lol -- it's totally driving them all crazy	fishwax	Apr 2012	#17
From Slate:	Can I Come Home	May 2012	#18
Stating facts is different than bragging	quaker bill	May 2012	#19
Yup, they all got the "talking papers".......	a kennedy	May 2012	#21
"There was a time I wasn't able to brag - when I was in the Hanoi Hilton..."	Capt. Obvious	May 2012	#22
Heroes don't brag. "The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked!" heroes don't brag.	themaguffin	May 2012	#23
Puhleas	Marzupialis	May 2012	#24
Give these guys a shovel so that they can dig deeper.	grantcart	May 2012	#25
They just strap on codpieces	frazzled	May 2012	#26
Do any of you remember how he used	Worried senior	May 2012	#27
Every McCain speech	Taylor Smite	May 2012	#28
"any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing." Really?	and-justice-for-all	May 2012	#29
it's over	Flatpicker	May 2012	#30

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