Don’t like your own memories? Borrow someone else’s!
MORE on how John McCain may have been using this fake story for a few years now. Of course, the MSM loves John McCain’s barbecue too much to actually ask him about this.
>> McCain’s “Cross In Dirt” Story Questioned
Are you saying McCain’s memories aren’t seared into him? How can that be?
If you were so upset at John Kerry’s supposed lying, you guys are going to be howling about McCain’s made up story, right?
Even your link admits there’s no way to know if it’s true or not. Let me know when you can double check his travel logs and determine McCain wasn’t really in a POW camp with guards.
JWG, do you really think it is a mere coincidence that Solzhenitsyn tells essentially the exact same story? That two prison guards in two different Communist countries drew a cross in the dirt in apparent solidarity with two different prisoners?
You have to admit that this stretches the bounds of credibility on McCain’s part quite a bit. And why shouldn’t he be questioned about it, since the similarity with Solzhenitsyn’s story is so striking?
Even your link admits there’s no way to know if it’s true or not.
So “no lie has ever been documented” huh? Where have I heard that one before?
Didn’t McCain testify that he was “always” anti-abortion? I understand that’s a lie. A man who will tell one lie, and approve others in his ads about Obama, surely wouldn’t stop there…
What makes McCain’s story so suspect is the fact that he doesn’t mention it in his 1973 account of his experiences as a POW. In the 1973 account, McCain mentions prayer, formulating novels in his head, and experiences/ommunications with other POWs, ill treatment by the guards–but no cross in the dirt.
We also know McCain is a Solzhenitsyn fan.
Let’s pretend McCain HAD told that story in 1973. You think it would have been that difficult for the Vietnamese to track down this Jesus-loving guard and “re-educate” him?
Solzhenitsyn’s story had a prisoner draw the cross rather than a guard.
Besides that — you’re right — what are the odds that 2 different Christians living/working in a Communist prison camp would ever surreptitiously draw a cross in the dirt in the previous century? The odds must be a billion-to-one!
I’m shocked that after having returned just a couple of months after spending over 5 years being tortured that McCain didn’t immediately document ever single thing that happened to him during that time. Yeah…that sounds very, very suspicious.
Since John McCain has made his POW experience the central qualification for his presidency, you would think he would try to keep his stories straight.
Honestly I’m surprised (not) that the SCLM hasn’t made an issue about McCain giving information to the enemy in exchange for cigarettes. If he’ll sell out his country for cigarettes who knows what he will do as president?
Former POW Orson Swindle has come forward to say that he heard the McCain story back in 1971 — before Solzhenitsyn’s book was released.
Stick to the “did you know McCain is old?” theme, Oliver. While it seems a poor strategy, to piss off a demographic that has some of the highest voter turnout, it at least has the virtue of being true.
J.
Come on, Jay Tea — you know those POWs were just a bunch of whiners who sold out their country for cigarettes!
Jay Tea, Swindle is just a racist liar!!
But seriously, the left is desperate and this kind of smear is exactly the kind of thing they blubbered, cried, bitched, moaned, groaned, wailed, teeth-gnashed and every other verb I can think just four years ago. The hypocrisy stinks worse than that of a dead corpse.
Oh and where is John Kerry in all of this?
“…and this kind of smear is exactly the kind of thing they blubbered, cried, bitched, moaned, groaned, wailed, teeth-gnashed and every other verb I can think just four years ago.”
Wow, a conservative (implicitly) admitting that the charges the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth levelled against Kerry were “smears”…progress!
“Oh and where is John Kerry in all of this”?
He had nothing to do with raising this question, valid or not. That would be your ideological side, freerepublic.com, who first started the “this story by McCain seems fishy” ball rolling in 2005.