McCain on Bin Laden raid: 'The thing about heroes, they don't brag'

[shawn703]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued to hammer the Obama re-election team over its use of the death of Osama bin Laden in a campaign commercial, echoing Mitt Romney's statement that any president - including Jimmy Carter - would have made the same call.

“I say any president, Jimmy Carter, anybody, any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing. And to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of take over campaign we're under -- we're -- we're seeing…So all I can say is that this is going to be a very rough campaign," McCain told Fox News in an interview set to air Monday night. "And I've had the great honor of serving in the company of heroes. And, you know the thing about heroes, they don't brag.”

Those remarks largely mirror a similar claim made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earlier Monday. McCain has endorsed Romney's bid for the White House and served as one of his top surrogates on foreign policy issues.
"Of course. Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said Monday before a New Hampshire campaign event.

Read more...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/224625-mccain-on-bin-laden-raid-the-thing-about-heroes-they-dont-brag

[shawn703]

1. The lies coming from these people

[Champion Jack]

2. How would he know? mcCains just a guy who crashed planes

[wendylaroux]

10. ZING nt

[tularetom]

3. Heroes sure as hell DON'T brag but cowardly little mama's boys do

[Journeyman]

4. Heroes don't brag. Look at Audie Murphy. He didn't brag. He just wrote a book about his exploits...

then starred in a movie based on the book. And he was the most decorated soldier this country has ever produced.

And now he's on YouTube:

[rfranklin]

5. Bush didn't do it..bin Laden was too useful as Emmanuel Goldstein...

The boogeyman that he could use again and again to keep the populace terrified.

[Enrique]

6. look out, Obama!

hes coming for you!

[rfranklin]

7. McCain just wrote a goddamn book about himself and his heroism...

McCain describes the awful details of his imprisonment and tells how he stayed mentally strong during seemingly endless months of solitary confinement and how he communicated in code with fellow captives. Faith of My Fathers concludes with McCain's release and contains no information about his subsequent political career. It is, nonetheless, a complete and compelling memoir of individual heroism--one that will interest both political and military history buffs.

http://www.amazon.com/Faith-My-Fathers-John-McCain/dp/0375501916

That wouldn't be bragging would it?

[C_U_L8R]

8. John Rootin-Tootin McCain

has made a career bragging about his self-proclaimed heroism

[applegrove]

9. Said the man who has run in every election since the 1960s as a "war hero".

[Drunken Irishman]

11. McCain is a fucking liar assbag...

He was the one who said Obama shouldn't go into Pakistan unilaterally if he thought bin Laden was there. Stop trying to rewrite history you piece of dried up dog shit. Fuck you.

[shawn703]

12. Just look at how the Republicans gave the order at Tora Bora

Oh wait...

[Dawson Leery]

13. Except for you John. Your entire career has been based upon the

myth that you actually did something "heroic".

[BlueStater]

14. When did Obama claim to be a hero?

Fuck off, old man.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Exactly. Obama isn't a hero, he's a leader. Something McCain never has been.

[Tippy]

20. You can say that again...Remembering "Mission Accomplished"

Now folks President Obama is a real leader not a show boater like GW and McCain....

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. This from a man who spent his entire political career bragging about his own heroism!

[fishwax]

17. lol -- it's totally driving them all crazy

that we got osama on Obama's watch and by his order.

[Can I Come Home]

18. From Slate:

Shame on President Obama.

On Friday, the Obama campaign released a video taking credit for the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. Republicans denounced the video. The Republican National Committee issued a statement from Sen. John McCain calling it a “pathetic political act of self-congratulation”:

Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of Sept. 11 and the killing of Osama Bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. … Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama Bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected. No one disputes that the president deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy.

The statement appeared on the RNC’s website rather than McCain’s, a clear sign that the RNC orchestrated it. Other Republicans joined in the outrage. Sunday morning on Meet the Press, former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie, now an adviser to Mitt Romney, quoted the McCain statement and called Obama “one of the most divisive presidents in American history. He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans … and he’s managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan political attack.” When David Gregory pointed out that President Bush had used the same tactics in 2004, Gillespie replied that Obama, unlike Bush, crossed a line by suggesting “that Gov. Romney wouldn’t have done” what Obama did in the Bin Laden case. According to Gillespie, Republicans in 2004 simply depicted Bush as “a strong leader. You don’t see him saying, ‘and that guy [John Kerry] would have done something different.’ ”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/04/is_obama_s_bin_laden_video_a_partisan_exploitation_of_war_so_was_the_2004_bush_campaign_.html

"a shameless end-zone dance"? Talk about a dog whistle!

[quaker bill]

19. Stating facts is different than bragging

He did it, everyone knows it, and he gets to claim it. Bragging would be claiming that it was easy and the other side was sloppy for not having done it sooner, and he doesn't do this. They just hear it that way out of a sense of true inadequacy.

[a kennedy]

21. Yup, they all got the "talking papers".......

don't brag, don't politicize it.... they make me sick

[Capt. Obvious]

22. "There was a time I wasn't able to brag - when I was in the Hanoi Hilton..."

[themaguffin]

23. Heroes don't brag. "The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked!" heroes don't brag.

[Marzupialis]

24. Puhleas

Remember Bush not a hero, but pretending to be one in that war suit?

[grantcart]

25. Give these guys a shovel so that they can dig deeper.

[frazzled]

26. They just strap on codpieces

and strut around with incorrect banners touting things that haven't been accomplished. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Worried senior]

27. Do any of you remember how he used

his imprisonment in his campaign every chance he got.

I think he screwed up and that's why he got captured, I believe he was known as a risk taker.

He has nothing to say that I ever want to hear.

[Taylor Smite]

28. Every McCain speech

was about him in the POW camp

[and-justice-for-all]

29. "any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing." Really?

Because Shurb Co sure as hell didn't

[Flatpicker]

30. it's over

John's getting too old for this.
He sold his soul for the 2008 campaign, and brought us the evil that is SP.

Sad, because I used to like him. Back when he was somebody who seemed trustworthy.