How the GOP celebrated St. Patrick's Day

[Mister D]

What is this obsession with service? I don't care if Juan "God's Children" McCain served. That doesn't give him a free pass.

[gamewell45]

They just criticized them in groups....or, forgot about them all together.... because, what does it matter, now.

Can you cite any specific examples?

[Abby08]

Can you cite any specific examples?

Don't you pay attention, when Democrats do it?

[gamewell45]

Don't you pay attention, when Democrats do it?

Abby, please don't try and pull that with me; if you can't cite anything its fine. All you have to say is you cannot give me any examples and end of discussion.

[Abby08]

Abby, please don't try and pull that with me; if you can't cite anything its fine. All you have to say is you cannot give me any examples and end of discussion.

I'm not ' pulling' anything, you really should know what Hillary and Obama did, to screw over our military personnel, that's all I said/meant.

[MMC]

True, but I don't think either of them got into any trouble while serving.

McCain got in all kinds of trouble.

[gamewell45]

McCain got in all kinds of trouble.

Enough to get him busted in rank?

[Tahuyaman]

What is this obsession with service? I don't care if Juan "God's Children" McCain served. That doesn't give him a free pass.

I don't believe there is an obsession with military service. It looks to me as though most people are concerned with the conduct of that service or if they avoided service during the draft years, how they did that.

[MisterVeritis]

So you didn't serve. Somehow, because you know people who did, you are qualified to serve judgement on those who did serve.
Actually, you are a puppet of Trump. He didn't serve either. In fact he intentionally avoided serving 5 times. And he regularly insults those fine heroes who did. He has insulted several Military people who served with honor and dignity.
Face it. The cadet, named bone spurs, holds no ground for qualification of a hero.

There are no Senators or Representatives that agree with Trump with regards to McCain. None.
Lindsay Graham made it clear he disagrees with Trump.

Grahamnesty is McCain's illegitimate son (in my opinion).

[stjames1_53]

According to st-james that makes your heroes as common as scouring powder.
Not mine, but his. Read back. He said it.

yep. I said it but you take it out of context. Ya see, I WAS there. What I saw haunted me for years. What I did haunts me today.
I know what heroes are. I fought along side many of them. To raise one of them above so many is cheap. All McCain did was drop bombs and ditch his aircraft. That does not make him a hero. He never killed up close and personal. He saved no single soldier by sacrificing his life.
He did not live with the consequences of his actions. He'd drop his load and fly back to his carrier, safe and sound while those ground pounders had to sleep every night in hostile country waiting to be attacked. We lived on a razor's edge everyday, thinking and dreaming that each breath might still be our last.
When I enlisted in '70, you had to be perfect except for eye wear. Missing the stub of a finger disqualified you. If you had bone spurs on your heels, you couldn't march. If you were missing a little toe, if you had cauliflower ears, if your taste buds were fried.........lots of things disqualified you from active duty.
They wanted PERFECT soldiers, the kind that could die easily and never actually be missed by the military.
The only reason McCain was elevated to hero status was because the military had to create a hero to justify what it did over there and it was a shallow attempt to deflect what we did. By declaring McCain a hero lessens what the rest of us suffered under or did to protect The Band of Brothers.
So when I say heroes were as common as scouring powder, it was not only accurate, but it was true.