McCain Camp Responds On Houses Gaffe: He Was A POW!

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McCain Camp Responds On Houses Gaffe: He Was A POW!

By Eric Kleefeld - August 21, 2008, 1:57PM

The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument in responding to Obama's criticism of his number-of-houses gaffe, an approach the McCain camp has never tried before: The houses gaffe doesn't matter because ... he was a POW!

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.

For those of you who haven't kept track, the McCain campaign just recently cited McCain's POW years in explaining away the Miss Buffalo Chip gaffe, and in dealing with the allegation that he broke the rules and listened in on Barack Obama during the Rick Warren forum.

Also, Rogers made sure to play the anti-intellectual card: "In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story."

On edit: Time to hit McCain on this

[KittyWampus]

1. is there a point where McCain can be mocked for over-using his POW experience?

[tekisui]

4. Yes, now! POW=PTSD.

[ErinBerin84]

9. I keep thinking that it is a joke when someone posts it as their response.

What if someone plays a McCain drinking game during the debates and dies of alcohol poisoning from this nonsense.

[TwilightGardener]

26. This would be good for an SNL skit.

[Pirate Smile]

30. A Noun, A Verb and POW = McCain campaign. The POW card gets played again.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

51. Is it due to him being a POW that he called his wife a rude word?

:evilgrin:

[tekisui]

2. Of course, just like rudy with 911. Just yeal POW! and run away.

How is your PTSD, Mr. Mccain.

If that was the follow up to every time he used the POW-card, he would STFU about it.

[KamaAina]

58. If only he'd pick Rudy for VP...

...I could write their stump speech for them.

"My friends, POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 POW 9/11 Good night."

[ErinBerin84]

3. being a POW means that you get to retroactively shit on the American people through your policies

"5 YEARS, ALAN! 5 YEARS!"

[sabra]

5. I thought this was a joke

:wtf:

[KansDem]

6. He has more houses than years spent as a POW...(nt)

[City Lights]

But that was over 30 years ago! And yesterday the "that was over 30 years ago"

was the answer he gave when confronted with evidence that he'd lied about when his relation with Cindy began.

I'm sick of him using his POW status as a Get out of jail free card.

Fuck you, John.

[Lucky 13]

7. John McCain could walk up to a little old lady and punch her square in the face...

... and the response from his campaign would be "Yeah, but he was a POW!!!"

[BOSSHOG]

8. Will that be his excuse when he nukes Norway??

[nxylas]

14. "I thought it was Iran...um, um. I was a TROOP!"

"Why do you hate America?"

[Alter Ego]

10. What the fuck?

Obama should respond to this: "With all due respect, what does McCain's time as a POW have to do with this at all?"

[renate]

41. well, perhaps not Obama, but SOMEONE certainly should

I like the phrasing of your question, especially if it were posed politely. I would really, really like to hear McCain's spokesman's response to that.

[klyon]

56. Obama should respond that it makes him singularly unqualified

to be President. His war record is shaky but 5 years as a POW makes his brain shaky too. He needs to seek help not another house.

[eshfemme]

11. Mwuahahaa~! McCain is just playing right into Obama's hand here.

Anyone with a rational mind would think, "WTF? WTF does being a POW have to do with having 7 fucking houses in a country where a lot of people can't even get 1?"

[WeDidIt]

18. Like I said below, they just SHAT on their own BRAND!

The POW card was just overplayed and they can never ever play it again.

[eshfemme]

29. You are underestimating Republican idiotic obstinance in the face of futile reason.

Even if they know it's overplayed, they'll still play it. I guarantee it. And that's probably the MSM's fault because they're even more idiotic than the Republicans (and Democrats-- I say this with love but the party can be dumb sometimes, which is slowly being corrected now) can be.

[WeDidIt]

38. GREAT, Let them play it

Every time they play it, it becomes more of a national joke!

[scheming daemons]

12. Imagine this SNL skit:

McCain gets pulled over for speeding, tells the cop "But, I'm a former POW!", the cop sheepishly says "oh, ok. nevermind".


Then McCain goes into a convenience store, and tries to steal a six-pack of beer. The clerk yells, "Stop! Thief!" and then McCain says, "But, I'm a former POW!". The clerk sheepishly says, "oh, ok. Enjoy your beer."


Out in the parking lot, McCain walks up to a woman and pinches her on the ass. She starts to object, and then McCain says, "It's OK, I'm a former POW!". She then responds, "oh.. alright. Might as well grab a boob while you're at it then."


SNL can make the POW-excuse-for-everything a national joke in one night.

[Ashy Larry]

20. That is a great idea.

I bet they will do something like that if McMansion keeps using it as an excuse for everything. He even used it to justify his favorite song being "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.

[MGKrebs]

28. Except then he loots the treasury, "but I was a POW!", then he

bombs Mexico, but it's OK because "He's a POW!". But then when he inadvertently raises the luxury tax on yachts, His POWness will be drugged and sat in a corner while VP Mitt Romney sells the rest of the country to China.

[Ashy Larry]

13. Wait a minute!

John McCain was a POW??! In Vietnam?! Why have I never heard about this?

[WeDidIt]

15. OMFG, they just SHAT on their own BRAND!

The American people will now look at the POW shit as a bad thing!

They have fucked up ROYALLY!

[redqueen]

16. Everytime they say POW a chorus should shout RELEASE THE RECORDS.

Hey, they keep bringing it up...

[Ichingcarpenter]

32. I agree release his full medical and his POW/ military records

My father hates him because he uses his POW status as a crutch.

[redqueen]

34. I think a LOT of vets hate him for a lot of POW-related reasons.

Maybe the corporate media will be forced to talk about it... someday. (heh, yeah right)

[Ichingcarpenter]

39. My dad hates him and had a longer military service than McCain

He also has more medals. "The only heroes are dead heroes"

[BlueIdaho]

17. A noun a verb and 911...

The more he devalues his experience as a POW by repeatedly using it as an "excuse" - the more it allows us to criticize him and his POW experience. If HE can play politics with it - so can we.

[Spazito]

19. Geez, I am beginning to think nobody needs to go at the POW aspect....

McCain and his campaign are marginalizing it all on their own!

LOL, talk about creating cracks in your own firewall! It is hilarious!!

Edited to add:

RECOMMENDED!

[SeattleGirl]

21. Hannity and two other Repukes used this as an excuse for

McSame's bad handling of his first marriage and affair with Cindy the other day.

So, I guess this guy could eat a baby on live TV, and it would be okay because he was a POW.

[billyoc]

22. So being a POW means you're a lying, cheating dumbass?

Who knew?

[TwilightGardener]

23. Oh...my ...God... not again. They are making a parody of him.

[Alter Ego]

24. They'll get in trouble for the direct insult.

And what is with the fucking arugula?

Obama needs to make an ad about arugula--just to piss Grampy off more.

[TwilightGardener]

33. If I were Obama, I'd make an arugula joke. It is a tasty green. No reason to avoid it.

[Inuca]

44. You like arugula?

I bet you also have a pointy head.

[TwilightGardener]

45. I do like arugula. I like radicchio, and romaine, and Bibb, and even the lowly

iceberg. And field greens too. But endive--that's what really makes me elite.

[Inuca]

46. Endive and radicchio?

That's it, I declare you my salad-sister :-)! Very difficult to find where I now live though, and disgustingly expensive when I do find them, especially my adored endives.

What on earth is a Bibb?

[TwilightGardener]

48. Bibb is just another common type of lettuce. Mostly, I just buy the bagged

pre-washed salad mixes, and have to take my elite greens in little token chopped-up chunks. :)

[Qutzupalotl]

25. Noun, verb, POW.

Why do McCain's critics hate the troops?
:sarcasm:

[Blaukraut]

27. This has to be the threshold

Where the American people are sick of getting beaten over the head with the POW sledgehammer at every turn. Just like the constant 9/11 drumbeat got old and annoying, the POW defense is starting to wear thin.

[Renew Deal]

31. The POW thing is quickly becoming mockable.

He's using it like Guiliani used 9/11. It eventually became a joke.

[Frank Booth]

35. Someone who knows PhotoShop needs to create some POW Cards for McCain.

He can just hand them out whenever he says something stupid.

[jenmito]

36. He used that line before about living in a POW prison for 5 1/2 years...they just

talked about that on Faux's "documentary" about McCain. He was accused of being a "carpetbagger" when running for the Senate in Arizona, and he said something like, "Hey pal, the longest I've lived in any one place was as a POW in Vietnam," and that supposedly won him the election. I see they're trotting out old material.

[Union Thug]

37. That's pretty F*ing lame. What a joke. That's the best they've got???? HA! n/t

[progressoid]

40. Obama Lives in "a Frickin' Mansion"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3447930&mesg_id=3447930

[ProSense]

42. Oh, that's rich.

McCain campaign meltdown.

[redqueen]

43. Just the one?

These people are a joke. If they didn't have the whore M$M propping them up... *sigh*

[ClayZ]

47. K and R

POW does not qualify you to be PRESIDENT.

It qualifies you to have a PSYCHIATRIST!

[ProSense]

49. Ten homes "And they drink Latte's too"

Who again is the elitest Latte drinker???

[ProSense]

50. It appears the 10 homes maybe inaccurate

Actually, eight

[LSK]

52. just when I think they cant get any more absurd, they prove me wrong

[zulchzulu]

53. Maybe McCain wants to be a POW....again!

Actually the more he brings up his POW thing, the sooner the people launching stuff on how he denounced his country will come out...

[rucky]

54. How many POW cards does he have in his deck?

[ProSense]

55. Not sure

since he isn't playing with a full one.

[backscatter712]

57. THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!! I MEAN FIVE!!!

:evilgrin:

[Skidmore]

59. If McCain makes so many mistakes and has so many memory problesm because he was a POW,

then perhaps he is unfit for the job.