Rockefeller Apologizes For Suggesting McCain Was Insensitive Warrior

I disagree. the man was telling the truth as he saw it and many agree with him. Too bad he felt compelled to apologize. The democrats are continually criticized and rebuked by the republicans for expecting our tax dollars to go to services for the people like there is something wrong with that while to them killing innocent people is a show of valor. Some American values. BTW, how could this possibly hurt Obama? It has nothing to do with him except that he is also a democrat. I call that a big stretch.

Yes, it was impressive how John McCain stopped the North Vietnamese navy before they reached the
West Coast.

Except for North Vietnam not having a blue-water navy, or much of an Air Force, or a strategic missile force, or any means of projecting power much outside their own borders - they were a huge threat to the United States.

Why indeed!

Until you spend 5 years being held by them, being tortured every day then you have no right to say anything about this. I have known many WWII vets that are not racist, but cannot and will not say anything good about the Japanese. My best friend's father, until the day he died, told his kids if any of them bought a Japanese car he would disown them and his wife said it was no hollow threat. I can't blame him for that either.

I hold nothing against either ethnicity & do not approve of others making derogatory comments about any ethnicity, but I have never been in the situation that either man was.

As far as Jay Rockefeller is concerned, his family's money comes from the monopoly and unscrupulous business dealings of his great-grandfather. His family now lives off the earnings of companies like Exxon Mobil. The McCain family has served the country through Naval (and now Marine service) for at least 4 generations. Someone has to stand up for this country. I don't agree with this war at all & want the troops home, but if not for the military service of our forefathers we would still be speaking the Queen's English.

the report wasn't done by a reporter, she a dem stooge.

Yeah. I heard a lot of that "anyone who questions someone with military service is questioning that person's patriotism" too. What a crock. Truth is, soldiers are not heroes just because they join the service. Some join because they don't know what else to do with their lives yet, some join because it is the only way they know of getting work and being supported, some do it because they believe (as many in Middle Eastern countries do) that it is honorable to be a martyr, and some do it because it is family legacy. These are some of the same reasons why people do ANYTHING. I doesn't make them right or wrong OR heroes, especially when they are fighting people that are no threat to them. I am tired of all this blind and fake adoration for the military. There are good and honorable people in all walks of life and there are people who are dishonest and dishonorable in all walks of life as well. And I'm sorry that so many have gotten killed. It is tragic waste, but it does not make them heroes.

Yup, that's what I hear also.

biglib always - misrpresenting bullshit upon bullshit upon bullshit to suit it's needs.

Wonder if McCain ever apologizes after he verbally assaults his wife after calling her a c##t or a trollup?

Yeah, sort of how McCain, a closet liberal, has treated his own party.
Don't you fret -- you're the apple of his eye.

Sometimes sorry never comes.

I really have to wonder how many of these friends have ever flown in combat.

Folks on this site make it sound like it is so easy, and McCain was such a screw up. Glass houses, I suppose.

Why would you vote for someone you have to hold your nose for?

You don't know what your friends are referring to? Geez, this is this is the internet, look it up! Google "USS Forrestal Fire". Some believe McCain accidently triggered the zuni rocket, but I haven't read anything conclusive.