Bragging
If there is one thing Americans don't like, it's excessive bragging. They love heroes, they love heroic accomplishments, but they don't want to see someone tossing it in their face every second.
Americans prefer humble heroes, reluctant warriors. It is for this reason that John Kerry's purple hearts were able to become a joke -- because, like it or not, people started to sense that he was making too big a deal out of it during his convention and in his ads.
Well guess what. The same is going on with John McCain and his constant references to his POW days. He is bragging, he is putting it in our faces every chance he gets, and it's starting to undermine the street cred that his prisoner days gave him.
It's hard to turn your POW service into a mockery. But McCain is doing it, and the media is starting to notice.
Maureen Dowd discussed it in today's NY Times:
Liberal bloggers have of course been on this for a while. Yet the McCain campaign, instead of deciding to go on a POW diet for a while, are instead threatening to double down:
At this rate they'll probably construct a giant prison cage on the stage at the RNC convention, then have McCain emerge in his battered old prisoner garb for his acceptance speech.
Americans don't like proud people. It cheapens whatever accomplishments made that person great in the first place. If McCain keeps this up, "POW" will be a punch line by election day.
Americans prefer humble heroes, reluctant warriors. It is for this reason that John Kerry's purple hearts were able to become a joke -- because, like it or not, people started to sense that he was making too big a deal out of it during his convention and in his ads.
Well guess what. The same is going on with John McCain and his constant references to his POW days. He is bragging, he is putting it in our faces every chance he gets, and it's starting to undermine the street cred that his prisoner days gave him.
It's hard to turn your POW service into a mockery. But McCain is doing it, and the media is starting to notice.
Maureen Dowd discussed it in today's NY Times:
So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of an American Express black card. His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength — and making a mockery of his already dubious claim that he’s reticent to talk about his P.O.W. experience — by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters and TV advertisements.
Liberal bloggers have of course been on this for a while. Yet the McCain campaign, instead of deciding to go on a POW diet for a while, are instead threatening to double down:
They will be prepared to show McCain's "home" in Hanoi by using images of his cell. They claim they have not overused the POW element and insist they have "underused it."
At this rate they'll probably construct a giant prison cage on the stage at the RNC convention, then have McCain emerge in his battered old prisoner garb for his acceptance speech.
Americans don't like proud people. It cheapens whatever accomplishments made that person great in the first place. If McCain keeps this up, "POW" will be a punch line by election day.
posted by Existenz | 7:00 PM
6 Comments:
John McCain = POW = Person Of Wealth
"In an early morning phone call Friday from his fabulous crib in Las Vegas, Leach told The Times that he isn’t really surprised at McCain's odd memory lapse given the complex lives that the super-rich lead. "He probably was confused as to which homes are in his name, his wife's name, or corporate names," Leach explained in his familiar, deep British baritone. "In his attempt to be honest, he put his foot in his mouth."" -The Los Angeles Times (Robin Leach on the lifestyles of the rich and political -- John McCain)
Wait...are you serious? Pictures of him in his cell? Has his campaign lost all sense of shame?
How will the Dems respond? Will they roll with the filmed confessions that McCain endured? Will they roll out other POWs and Wesley Clark to say "enough's enough"?
I knew they were desperate when they played the race card thru June. But this is bottom of the barrel, last card, hail mary type crap. Or is that their Rev. Wright strategy?
I call this the "James Stockdale Syndrome". I mean no disrespect to Mr. Stockdale; I felt sorry for him during his debate.
Don't feel sorry for McCain....CindyLou can put him in one of their condos with full time nurses. She has plenty of money for all the TLC he needs. BTW, does Viagra fog the brain??? I am female and don't know about that.
Ambian can fog your brain.
Stating the facts is not bragging. I think it is vital that they continue to show the love and devotion that McCain has for his county - OUR country. We are a country full of lazy, do-nothingers that take most of what we have in this country for granted. A perfect example of this is both Mr. and Mrs. Obama. They have NO true love or devotion to our country and that in and of itself is ENOUGH to make him unfit to be our President. He does NOT see his survival of war and torture as an achievement, but as an evolution of self. He went to war like all of us (spoiled and priveleged) and came out as we should all hope and pray to one day be (thankful and devoted). Take a moment and put yourself in that cell, enduring relentless torture and debiliating injuries - WOULD you have survived? WOULD you have come out stronger? WOULD you have come out of it a BETTER and TRUER person? Answer honestly - most of us would have given up and died, those that survived would feel bitter or sorry for ourselves. John McCain is a better man than most. I don't care about your politics or who will get your vote, but the man deserves our respect AND our gratitude!
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