Gloria Steinam shits on McCain

[busybody..]

says the fact he was a POW

is just meaningless

 

[busybody..]

More thoughts from Jules Crittenden. "It would be cruelly ironic if the iconic feminist put the last nail in the coffin of the first viable woman’s candidacy."

 

[firespin]

says the fact he was a POW

is just meaningless

At least she didn't endorse him.

 

[busybody..]

she did

it will have a huge backlash against ClitBITCH in Texas where they are very pro military

 

[busybody..]

will THE PUSSY disavow the comments?

 

[breakwall]

The New York Observer reports that in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, feminist icon Gloria Steinem belittled Sen. John McCain's five-and-a-half years as a POW and said the media would treat that war record differently if it were a woman veteran's record.

"Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years?" Steinem asked, suggesting the media would ask "'What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?" ...

Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said, with bewilderment, "I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so."

Maybe we'll be seeing women with military backgrounds running for office and standing on their combat records. That would be interesting.

 

[Absolute_Kaos]

says the fact he was a POW

is just meaningless

Well she is correct. I salute him for serving our country but his POW status has nothing to do with ability.

 

[busybody..]

Well she is correct. I salute him for serving our country but his POW status has nothing to do with ability.

well,

Kerry in 04 thought his did

 

[breakwall]

well,

Kerry in 04 thought his did

Service records stir up emotions and perhaps even a sense of obligation.
But I think it can only carry you so far.

Kennedy was never one to shrink from expounding his. And Eisenhower felt his was a liability.

 

[Gunner70]

says the fact he was a POW

is just meaningless

Did you expect anything less??????

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

The fact is, McCain's past history as a POW doesn't qualify him for anything except perhaps making him an authority on the torture techniques used on POWs. Which he apparently has forgotten since he completely caved to the Bush administration's demands that they be allowed torture techniques ...er "Enhanced interrogation"..

So he learned what as a POW that would be applicable as President?

 

[busybody..]

Did you expect anything less??????

No!

 

[busybody..]

Gloria Steinem on McCain's POW experience


Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter, was speaking on her behalf in Texas in a Women for Hillary event. Unfortunately for Hillary, any help that she might have had by having the feminist icon speak for her was lost when Steinem decided to do a riff on McCain's experience as a POW.


Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, “I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so.”
The Clinton campaign immediately disavowed Steinem's words and said they have the utmost respect for John McCain's military status. Just what they wanted to have to spend the two days before the primary vote in Texas of all places talking about.

Steinem's crack raises the counter question: how does being married to a former president serve as a qualification for being president? Steinem goes on to say that the media wouldn't be as sympathetic to a woman who was captured and tortured.

Steinem raised McCain’s Vietnam imprisonment as she sought to highlight an alleged gender-based media bias against Clinton.

“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.


Well, turn it around. If a man were running on the basis of his experience as being married to a two-term former president, would the media be as likely to assume that being First Husband would be a qualification for being president?

And if that First Husband's wife had publicly humiliated him by cheating with an intern, would he get the same sympathy vote that would have propelled him into the Senate in the first place?

But Steinem has an answer for that, too.


And she claimed that if Clinton’s experience as First Lady were taken seriously in relation to her White House bid, people might “finally admit that, say, being a secretary is the best way to learn your boss’s job and take it over.”
So, what is she saying there? That being a wife is like being a secretary? And would anyone really buy her characterization of a secretary's qualifications to take over the job from her boss? Maybe that works well in movie plots, but I somehow doubt that anyone thinks that way in real life.

 

[busybody..]

The fact is, McCain's past history as a POW doesn't qualify him for anything except perhaps making him an authority on the torture techniques used on POWs. Which he apparently has forgotten since he completely caved to the Bush administration's demands that they be allowed torture techniques ...er "Enhanced interrogation"..

So he learned what as a POW that would be applicable as President?

more then being a first pussy

 

[Wok]

The fact is, McCain's past history as a POW doesn't qualify him for anything except perhaps making him an authority on the torture techniques used on POWs. Which he apparently has forgotten since he completely caved to the Bush administration's demands that they be allowed torture techniques ...er "Enhanced interrogation"..

So he learned what as a POW that would be applicable as President?

Maybe the Ethics Reform Committee.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

more then being a first pussy

Then we agree that neither McCain nor Clinton are qualified.

I'll be waiting for you at the polls with an "Obama '08" lapel pin.

 

[busybody..]

so when the DUMZ scream

CHICKEN HAWK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the you have McCain, who not only served, but has TWO sones serving now

ITS TIME TO SHIT ON EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cause being a PUSSY in the WH

is MORE VALUABLE

 

[Wrong Element]

I guess I'm mostly amused at how quickly Busybody has jumped on board the McCain bandwagon, after deriding him for months when his pal Guiliani was still in the race.

That's the good thing about being the perfect party man: you never have to think for yourself. The party has decided on McCain, so it's now McCain all the time. AJ has been a little slower to come around, but that can't be far away.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Maybe the Ethics Reform Committee.

If he hadn't completely caved on the "enhanced interrogation" bill maybe.

He compromised with the White House on torture. He compromised his integrity after taking a stand against torture.

Before that I actually had some respect for the man, but since then the "Straight talk express" has turned into the "Bullshit express".

 

[busybody..]

I guess I'm mostly amused at how quickly Busybody has jumped on board the McCain bandwagon, after deriding him for months when his pal Guiliani was still in the race.

That's the good thing about being the perfect party man: you never have to think for yourself. The party has decided on McCain, so it's now McCain all the time. AJ has been a little slower to come around, but that can't be far away.

I assume you would want

THE PUSSY

or the

COLORED CANDIDATE

in charge of THE BUTTON?

 

[busybody..]

I guess I'm mostly amused at how quickly Busybody has jumped on board the McCain bandwagon, after deriding him for months when his pal Guiliani was still in the race.

That's the good thing about being the perfect party man: you never have to think for yourself. The party has decided on McCain, so it's now McCain all the time. AJ has been a little slower to come around, but that can't be far away.

I am merely pointing out the foolishness of what the stinky cunt......GS.....said

not only about McCain, but about THE PUSSY as well

 

[Wok]

If he hadn't completely caved on the "enhanced interrogation" bill maybe.

He compromised with the White House on torture. He compromised his integrity after taking a stand against torture.

Before that I actually had some respect for the man, but since then the "Straight talk express" has turned into the "Bullshit express".

I really doubt he will win anyway, so no big deal.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

so when the DUMZ scream

CHICKEN HAWK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the you have McCain, who not only served, but has TWO sones serving now

ITS TIME TO SHIT ON EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cause being a PUSSY in the WH

is MORE VALUABLE

His service is admirable, his son's service is admirable, but immaterial to his running for office.

Being in the military and getting captured is not a qualification for President. After all, your side completely trashed Kerry's service in the same war. But now that it's a Republican his military record is of utmost importance.

 

[Wok]

His service is admirable, his son's service is admirable, but immaterial to his running for office.

Being in the military and getting captured is not a qualification for President. After all, your side completely trashed Kerry's service in the same war. But now that it's a Republican then his military record is of utmost importance.

But a few weeks ago, he was the anti-christ. That I find funny.

 

[busybody..]

And contrast how Max THE CLUMSY BUFFOON Cleland is treated

for dropping a grenade on his sorry ass

AS A HERO by the DUMZ