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Monday, August 18, 2008

Monday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Posted by Jill | 9:31 PM
Today's honoree: Dr. Philip Butler, at Military.com, on why he won't vote for John McCain.

Money quote (emphases mine):


Succeeding as a POW is a group sport, not an individual one. We all supported and encouraged each other to survive and succeed. John knows that. He was not an individual POW hero. He was a POW who surmounted the odds with the help of many comrades, as all of us did.

I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate.


Tell all your friends and relatives who think that John McCain deserves a free pass on his lies, on his sweetheart deals with campaign contributors, on his ignorance, on his hypocritical personal morality, on his belief that it's perfectly OK to have a foreign policy adviser who is a paid agent for a foreign government and a potential treasury secretary who calls Americans "whiners" solely because he was a POW 40 years ago to read what Dr. Butler, a man who knows him, has to say. Because Dr. Butler still respects the man, but does not believe he should be president, and certainly doesn't believe that the presidency is somehow payment for being a POW.

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