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bushmeat (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 12:44 PMOriginal message Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income? Advertisements [?]Edited on Sun Jun-08-08 12:56 PM by bushmeatamericablog.comFirst off, I find it fascinating that John McCain, who is refusing to vote for the GI Bill for our troops because "it's too generous," is himself getting $58,000 a year, tax-free, from the US government for his military service. Had McCain been getting that amount every year since Vietnam, that would total $2,000,000 for the man who isn't into overgenerous government. I just find that interesting.His staff responded with the classic "he was tortured for his country." Yeah, we get it. The torture card. It's to McCain what 9/11 was to Giuliani's candidacy - the never-ending name-drop. Though what McCain's staff actually said was downright, um, we're being nice to Clinton now, so I won't say Clintonian. Here's the quote:McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. "Tortured for his country -- that is how he acquired his disability," Salter said.Technically? What does that mean? Usually, it means that under the strict reading of the law, you're covered, but in fact it's kind of a nudge-nudge-wink-wink situation - that's what "technically" means. It's called parsing, which is something you do to "technically" claim something is true, when on its face it really isn't. So is McCain "technically" disabled, and taking $58,000 a year tax free from the government, or is he actually disabled? I would imagine there are other solders who are actually disabled who could use the money. And if he is actually disabled, just how disabled is he?~snip~http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/why-is-mccain-gettin...
CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 01:02 PMResponse to Reply #9 11. my question is this: Edited on Sun Jun-08-08 01:04 PM by CountAllVoteshow can McCain do the job of a PRESIDENT if he is 100% disabled? This means that he cannot do anything supposedly. 100% 100% 100% ... maybe someone should check HIM OUT and see how true this is. If he is well enough to be running all over the world how does it fit that he is 100% disabled is what I'd like to know!!!
CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 01:02 PMResponse to Reply #911. my question is this:CountAllVoteshow can McCain do the job of a PRESIDENT if he is 100% disabled? This means that he cannot do anything supposedly. 100% 100% 100% ... maybe someone should check HIM OUT and see how true this is. If he is well enough to be running all over the world how does it fit that he is 100% disabled is what I'd like to know!!!
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site
bamalib (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 01:19 PMResponse to Reply #10 30. You obviously have never served in the military. If you had you would know that military does not classify disability the same way it is done with civilians. You are rated based on your ability to do military occupations. That is a far different standard that civilian occupations. The same standard is used whether you are injured in Iraq or Vietnam.
Quotebamalib (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 01:19 PMResponse to Reply #10 30. You obviously have never served in the military. If you had you would know that military does not classify disability the same way it is done with civilians. You are rated based on your ability to do military occupations. That is a far different standard that civilian occupations. The same standard is used whether you are injured in Iraq or Vietnam. Nooo! McCain is a fraud!! Noooooo!!These idiots really don't want to make this an issue. It will not go well for them. I remember the same thing came up about Bob Dole, but it wasn't brought up seriously at the time, more of a human interest story about his WWII service. When I was at Ford, a guy I worked with had a 50% disability payment from the Army. He was a tank driver and had sustained some injury to his eyes that had damaged his vision. I guess chimps aren't smarter.
Torturing of John McCain = no big dealTorturing of known Islamic terrorists at Gitmo = biggest scandal everTheir high and mighty stance on torture just got a little confusing for me.
bushmeat (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 12:44 PMOriginal message Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?
Quotebushmeat (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-08-08 12:44 PMOriginal message Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income? Because after what the NVA did to him in the Hanoi Hilton....he's due every damn penny of it.
Go ahead, raise your hands above your head if you object to John McCain’s disability pension. John McCain can’t do the same, thanks to the damage inflicted by Vietnamese torturers in Hanoi. He has constant pain in his knee and his back as well, significantly limiting his mobility. However, unless the Presidency requires a successful completion of an obstacle course every day, the Los Angeles Times’ questioning of his physical fitness for office seems ludicrous:
Guess my point earlier was lost on people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, was disabled and in a f'n wheelchair, yet those fools hold him up on a pedestal.
I think we got it.
Quote from: jendf on June 08, 2008, 08:31:41 PMTorturing of John McCain = no big dealTorturing of known Islamic terrorists at Gitmo = biggest scandal everTheir high and mighty stance on torture just got a little confusing for me.Like everything else in DUmmythink it is based on relativism.Terrorist that wants to destroy western capitalism=good.Man who endured real torture at the hands of Communists=bad.
