"(McCain) was a fighter pilot who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit."
"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?" Sen. Jay Rockefeller said in an interview published in Tuesday's Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. "He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
This was truly despicable. So bad that McCain’s campaign wasted no time calling Senator Rockefeller on to the carpet to smell the pile he had left there. McCain spokesman and fellow Vietnam POW, Orson Swindle fired back an angry response.
"Had Senator Rockefeller served himself, he would appreciate and understand that most who have been to war emerge with a much deeper concern for humanity than they otherwise might," said the former Marine lieutenant colonel. "If he knew what he was talking about, he would know that John McCain wasn't dropping laser-guided missiles at 35,000 feet in 1967."
Rockefeller’s comment lacked the class that should always accompany a grand fortune such as the Rockefeller estate. He proves that he is yet another stuffed shirt, who inherited the fortune of Croesis, but has discovered that vast sums of money will never pinch-hit for his dignity as a human being. Since Senator Rockefeller supports the Obama Presidential Campaign, Senator McCain called on Obama to repudiate his attack-lackey.
Senator Obama and Senator Rockefeller began their odious walk-back with a pair of thoroughly disingenuous apologies.
Senator Obama has a deep respect for Senator McCain’s service to this country and doesn’t agree with what Senator Rockefeller said,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
Rockefeller’s Senate office released a statement by the senator that said he regretted the comment. “I have deep respect for John McCain’s honorable and noble service to our country. I made an inaccurate and wrong analogy and I have extended my sincere apology to him.
“While we differ a great deal on policy issues, I profoundly respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words.”
Both men were forced into hypocrisy by political expediency. Each had to go through the public dog and pony show and repudiate what Senator Rockefeller and most liberal Democrats sincerely feel about people who serve in the US Armed Forces. The comments of Barack Obama’s supporters on the CNN weblog tell us exactly how liberals truly feel. User NX from VA offered the following sentiments.
April 8th, 2008 3:44 pm ET
Obama shouldn't apologize… McCain is a warmonger who supported the Iraq war despite lack of any credible evidence that Saddam was a threat. And now he is singing "bomb bomb bomb Iran" for no reason… Last thing we need is another pointless war while OBL & Co roam around freely…
Honkey White Guy From Cali was a genuine breathe of fresh air as well. He seems to think John McCain shot Senator Rockefeller with a mind control ray to manufacture the entire controversy. You just had to know it was all Karl Rove’s doing!
April 8th, 2008 3:47 pm ET
ok! give me a break Mc Same! what did you hire carl rove over the weekend and some how CNN missed it. You have got to be kidding me there is tons I mean tons of conservative republicans on radio,TV, and the internet making all kinds of nasty comments about Obama. Some of those while he was there in present company! I think him not responding to Mc Cains obvious attempt to drag Obama back down in the gutter and away from his message and campaign very sad!!! Remember Hillary tried to do this to and she almost had him down there but he stood back up brushed off the pieces and went back to work on his campaign. Better watch out campaigns have a tendency to explode after you try something like this
The poster named Abu articulated what will become the CNN corporate mantra between now and next November. The only thing missing was the punctuating exclamation point.
April 8th, 2008 3:58 pm ET
McCain and his campaign can eat slugs
Rockefeller’s remarks themselves were stupid, hurtful and the product of a petty, doddering man. The philosophy behind them reeks of hatred and a lack of basic civil decency. Like Senator Jon Carey, these sentiments are typical of how the leading liberal politicians feel about American soldiers. This is a critical distinction.
These people don’t just object to how the current presidential administration uses the military, they specifically object to the soldiers, sailors, marines and aviators who serve therein. They find the decision to serve in the United States Armed forces to be morally objectionable. This, quite bluntly, makes American liberals despicable human beings.
Yes, some will object that Senator’s Rockefeller and Kerry do not comprise a majority of the Democratic Party and that the others really are “different”. My only question would be “how so?” The Democratic Party draws the vast majority of its ideological support from the likes of “Liquidman” over at Kos, who offered us his classic Killitary post that posited the axiom that military training bred generations of psychotic killers. (N.B: I had to link LGF on that post because Kos ran from that one as fast as Senator Kerry ran from his vote in favor of the Iraq War prior to election 2004.)
Even the liberals who wear their veteran status on their chest like a Red Badge of Courage, and call others Chicken hawks for offering a dissenting view from them on the current Iraq War, offer us the following commentary when contract security guards get killed in Fallujah, set on fire and hung from a bridge. Here is America’s most honest liberal, Markos Maulitsas Zuniga. The only man with the guts to state what the average American liberal really feels.
Let the people see what war is like. This isn't an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush's folly.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
So when some pathetic liberal politician says that he supports the troops, but not the mission, the answer is simple. Tell him the following.
“Be honest, Sir(or Ma'am). You support neither. Like your party’s most recent President, you loathe the military. Do not waste anyone’s time with your false and pretentious claims to the contrary.”
I read the garbage that perfumed princes such as Jay Rockefeller produce and I find myself trying really hard to still consider liberals better than pseudo-sapient devolutions of the human species. How a man who has spent his entire life farting through silk and eating off of silver can possibly accuse Senator McCain of being a push-button killer befuddles me. Rockefeller and those who vociferously support his contentions don’t measure up to any objective standard of class and decency. At best, they are Full Metal Jackasses.
