McCain: We have barely begun to POW!

[Pirate Smile]

McCain: We have barely begun to POW! ...

Advisors say if Obama gets "nastier" on that issue that opens the door for them. Advisors say the "Rezko deal stinks to the high heavens." They will be prepared to show McCain's "home" in Hanoi by using images of his cell. They claim they have not overused the POW element and insist they have "underused it." They say Americans think most people in presidential politics are wealthy and will point out that Obama "made himself a multi-millionaire after he entered public life."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/210036.php

Obama made some money by writing two books and people buying them - how corrupt! :eyes:


They think they have underused the POW card and will be pushing it more? It is already becoming a joke like Rudy and 9/11.



McCain played it himself today to get out of his houses gaffe.

McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe

By Greg Sargent - August 24, 2008, 10:33AM

John McCain himself is now POW-POW-POW-ing to deflect criticism of his number-of-houses gaffe.

McCain slipped a reference to his war captivity into an interview McCain did with CBS that's airing today. He appeared to be referring to Joe Biden's crack yesterday that McCain has trouble considering people's kitchen table issues because he has to decide which of his own seven kitchen tables to use...

"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life," McCain said. "I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation...So the fact is that we have homes, and I'm grateful for it."

The McCain campaign appears to see that the Dem attacks on the houses gaffe risk being effective as character attacks, in that they are designed to portray him as out-of-touch and even pampered in a way that undercuts his down-to-earth war-hero bio and its intended contrast with Obama as an effete, untested celeb. Hence the frequent response invoking his war service.

But the "McCain-as-POW" currency the McCain camp is printing at such a furious rate -- and throwing wads of at every controversy that comes along -- is now losing value faster than the German Mark after World War I.

POW-POW-POW hyperinflation alert!

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_himself_invokes_pow_pas.php

Dowd's column today does help mainstream the issue. It got First Read to site it and reporters to ask the campaign about its overuse http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin :

MCCAIN: THE POW CARD

Maureen Dowd criticizes the McCain campaign for playing the POW card a little too much lately. ‘His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength - and making a mockery of his already dubious claim that he’s reticent to talk about his P.O.W. experience - by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters and TV advertisements.”

“The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor who married Jenna Bush and who is part of a new Christian-based political action committee supporting Obama, recently criticized the joke McCain made at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally encouraging Cindy to enter the topless Miss Buffalo Chip contest. The McCain spokesman Brian Rogers brought out the bottomless excuse, responding with asperity that McCain’s character had been ‘tested and forged in ways few can fathom.’”

“When the Obama crowd was miffed to learn that McCain was in a motorcade rather than in a ‘cone of silence’ while Obama was being questioned by Rick Warren, Nicolle Wallace of the McCain camp retorted, ‘The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous.’”

“When Obama chaffed McCain for forgetting how many houses he owns, Rogers huffed, ‘This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years - in prison.’”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/24/1288336.aspx

[mw]

1. It's a good thing McCain isn't a Democrat.

It's a good thing McCain isn't a Democrat.

Otherwise, we'd be inundated with swift boat stories of how McCain actually got shot down during an early mission--"not saying it was bad piloting, but others didn't get shot down", and how he actually endured alot less torture than others before he cracked--cut to former POWs who are indignant because McCain sold out his fellows and unit and country so early......

You know, made-up bullshit which stoops to the level of treason against our troops, like Bush's Swift Boat Liars made up.

[blogslut]

2. That was insane

This is so going to backfire

"I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair..."

What a maroon.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Quite honestly, if he can't get over this experience he has no business being president

Those 5 years have definitely scarred him and all the pressure of the campaign is showing the world how tenuous his grasp of reality is.

If he keeps talking about this as the only reason he should be president, it's going to backfire big time.

[grannie4peace]

3. if they did that

there are still pow's over there that mcschrub deserted

[blondeatlast]

4. "They claim they have not "overused" it... But they have to defend their use of it?

This bunch doesn't need just to investigate video, the internet, and cell phones--tape recorders might be a good idea too.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Overseas]

6. Let's hope the repetition turns McPOW into McFizzle. /nt

[rocktivity]

7. McCain=POW, Rudy=9/11?

:think:
rocknation

[Willo]

8. He only has two routes - Pimping POW status and Bashing Obama

both are expected to continue or else there'd be silence.

[Historic NY]

9. Look he was a prisoner, you know in jail, least that why he

wasn't returned because in the eyes of the other side he was a criminal.

[damndude]

12. wonder if he feels any sort of kinship

with the prisoners he is in favor of holding down in Guantanamo bay

[Liberal Dose]

10. noun + verb + POW = sentence

I can't wait for Joe to come out and say it!!! :D

[opihimoimoi]

11. The ME Personality...its always about HIM....we all know peeps like that. We call them BULLIES

Its gatta be THEIR WAY..they will lie cheat steal to keep the facade going....

[TwilightGardener]

13. McPOWPOWPOW wants you to know he ranks with Jesus on the Suffering Scale.

His suffering is sacred, beyond the appreciation or grasp of mere mortals. You must bow before the POW.

[dkf]

14. After crashing 3 planes, McCain should have known he wasn't pilot material.

He was bound to screw up and land up dead or in a camp.

[MiniMe]

15. Bring up Rezko, we can bring up the Keating 5

[JerseygirlCT]

16. Wasn't he the guy who wasn't going to cheapen this by

harping on the experience? Anyone else remember that from 2000? I swear, aliens came and replaced the man with a perfect Bush clone.

Or maybe I liked him better when there was no chance whatsoever he was going to be president.