John McCain's Sons
Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not 'newsworthy' enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? ... Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.
You see...character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire.
One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - - soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.
Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush ... a roadside bomb.
No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ......' Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.
Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.
Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.
I chose to share this with those who I believe will pass it on, to others who will pass it on. We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple act of kindness ... and dedication to others placed above oneself?
Has anybody heard if Barack Hussein Obama has served in The American Armed Services?
This is for all you Barack voters.
From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:
'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.''
HE DID NOT SAY STAND WITH AMERICANS!!!!!
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So how true is this? When I checked it out on Snopes, they said the version they reported on is true:
Snopes: My Three Sons.
The version I got is nearly identical to theirs, but has been re-written some, and amended. Most of the context is the same but Snopes version does not include the Obama quote at the end. That particular quote is addressed in another Snopes report, regarding multiple quotes from Obama's book:
Snopes: In His Own Words
It seems it's not an actual Obama quote, because he didn't mention Muslims specifically. It is based on something he said regarding legal immigrants generally, in the context of a Japanese internment camp scenario. You can follow the link for the details about this, and the truth about other Obama quotes as well.
And since we're "Snoping" McCain's family, see what they have to say bout his wife:
Snopes: Cindy McCain
It's very nice, and includes how the McCain's got their adopted daughter. Cindy would make an excellent First Lady.
2 comments:
A little strange that one son is at the Naval Academy to be an officer and the other son is enlisted...Do some background research on Jimmy McCain and you'll see that he had drug problems and was kicked out (withdrew pending disciplinary aciton) of several schools.
On a google search, three pages in, I found only one link that pitched the accusation as a question, without providing any evidence to prove it. Even if it were true, is it a big scandal?
Many people, Republicans and Democrats, can have drug related problems. They pay a price for that. If they manage to overcome their problem, I admire them for it, not condemn them.
I remember when Kitty Dukakis came clean about her drug addiction problem when her husband was running for president. I didn't condemn her; in fact I admired her for both overcoming it and being willing to talk about it so openly.
On the other side of the isle, Betty Ford is a shinning example of making lemonade out of lemons. She overcame her addiction problem, learned from that experience, and used it to create the Betty Ford Clinic to help many, many others struggling with the same issues.
When people manage to overcome these problems, its reason for rejoicing, not condemnation. I'm sick of people who want to use the addiction struggles of candidates family members as a partisan smear tactic. It's an issue where there are glass houses on both sides. Stone throwers would be wise to remember that.
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