John McCain and "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"

Let's get this straight.

Here is an example of showing gross disrespect for someone's military service.

Look at this goof ball. click for her story here

Remember at the 2004 Republican National Convention hundreds of people sported purpled band-aids mocking John Kerry's war wounds that earned him three Purple Hearts. The corporate media thought it was funny.

Here is an example of showing respect for someone's military service but questioning what it qualifies him to do.

Retired General Wes Clark, who left Vietnam on a stretcher after being shot four times in a battle with the Viet Cong while he was a company commander, made these comments about John McCain's military service:

"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war," Clark said. "He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces as a prisoner of war."
but ... "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president".

Fair enough, his opinion ..... the corporate media was outraged.

Now McCain joins forces with the purple band aid creators to try to give us 4 more years of bush league rule ...

More than any other act of rank hypocrisy that we have grown accustomed to expect from John McCain his recent embrace of the Swiftboaters to help his presidential campaign is beyond astonishing, especially for someone who is running in large part on his Vietnam record. McCain's new love affair with the Swiftboaters should expose to the mainstream press once and for all that their man -- their father figure and "hero" -- their "maverick" -- is nothing more than a Karl Rove-George Bush clone, a human-political/animal hybrid who jettisoned his ethics and integrity the minute he realized he was poised to become the heir to the glorious Bush legacy.

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