Bidens Comments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good grief you guys, McCain was shot down by enemy sharpshooters.

Shot down by enemy sharpshooters? What on earth are you smoking?

McCain crashed one plain through "pilot error". He lost a second one due to an undetermined cause. A third was destroyed on the deck of the USS Forrestal when a misile misfired. He lost a fourth plan when he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. There was another incident when according to McCain himself "My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident". He didn't destroy the plane on this occasion though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief you guys, McCain was shot down by enemy sharpshooters.

Shot down by enemy sharpshooters? What on earth are you smoking?

McCain crashed one plain through "pilot error". He lost a second one due to an undetermined cause. A third was destroyed on the deck of the USS Forrestal when a misile misfired. He lost a fourth plan when he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. There was another incident when according to McCain himself "My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident". He didn't destroy the plane on this occasion though.

Yeah, when I found out about how many planes he had crashed, I became much more cynical about him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief you guys, McCain was shot down by enemy sharpshooters.

Shot down by enemy sharpshooters? What on earth are you smoking?

McCain crashed one plain through "pilot error". He lost a second one due to an undetermined cause. A third was destroyed on the deck of the USS Forrestal when a misile misfired. He lost a fourth plan when he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. There was another incident when according to McCain himself "My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident". He didn't destroy the plane on this occasion though.

Yeah, when I found out about how many planes he had crashed, I became much more cynical about him.

I don't understand why Americans are so convinced that his war record qualifies him as a leader. I could understand if he had been a successful general or something like Eisenhower, but he was at best an average pilot, at worst a poor pilot who risked his life and others by clowning around. How does this make him such a great hero?

[Anonymous]

The bottom line is, If this was Palin who had made these comments regarding McCain...People would be holding them accountable and not giving them a free pass.

Has Biden or Obama even addressed these statements?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is, If this was Palin who had made these comments regarding McCain...People would be holding them accountable and not giving them a free pass.

Has Biden or Obama even addressed these statements?

Yes, Obama addressed the comments and agreed that the next president, whomever that may be, will be tested. Bush is leaving the country in a very weak position so it would be a good time to challenge us. Also, I don't know how people would react to Palin making the same comments, but Joe Lieberman -- another potential running mate -- said essentially the same thing and it was basically ignored.

What is the big deal anyway? Of course the next president will be challenged. If not by a foreign crisis, at a minimum by the financial situation and other problems we currently face.