20% of the Keating Five, 100% Bullshit

There is a reason why Americans who were POWs get special decorations, have been awared the Medal of Honor and are qualified to be intered at Arlington National Cemetary. It is the same reason why the Red Army of the Soviet Union imprisioned and executed POWs. Americans are civilized and respect life and respect service under difficult circumstances. It is sad that you seem to lean towrd the Red Army in your outlook.

John McCain could have been released early but he refused and his torture continued which ruined his back and arms thus ruining his chances of being an cleaver and pithy blogger like yourself..oh well, those are the sacrifices.

George W. Bush has awared an overdue Medal of Honor to a Jewish POW named

Tibor "Ted" Rubin.

He was a survivor of of the Holocaust from Hungary. He moved to the USA after the war and enlisted in the same US Army that liberated him.

He was sent to Korea and after an intense fire fight was captured by the Chinese.

Knowing he was from Hungary which was a fellow Communist nation at that time, The Chinese offered to send him back to Budapest. He refused and stayed with his fellow soldiers and risked his life to to keep them alive during his long inprisonment.

You see, McCain and Rubin had the bad luck to be captured but they showed their loyality to the nation and behaved honorably when it would have been easier to save themselves.

I know it is not as impressive as being a community organizer but being a honorable and heroic POW is the second best thing.

I don't want the guy that got captured - I want the guy that got away!

Rob, your penchant for  humorless, over-earnest McCarthy-ite tirades in which - in lieu of real dialogue or any attempt to either persuade or find common ground - you sling personal invective and label all dissenters as pinkos is nostalgic in its way, but wears thin quickly. 

I disagree with Frazer. I think McCain's service and his ordeal as a POW are very much relevant to the man that he is today. He's a good man, with honor and bravery in spades.  When Frazer tips clumsily into the rubbish about anyone can be a POW and it's all bad luck, it doesn't take a right-wing idealogue like yourself to feel compelled to give the good man a slap behind the head and ask him to compose himself. But your response is equally unnuanced and trafficks in bluster and caricture. That's what both of you share with McCain's performance last night, and that's why he didn't get the knockout he so badly needed.

All of that is perfectly illustrated in a 5-minute period of that debate. It came when a Navy veteran's question allowed McCain to thank the man for his service and pat him on the shoulder.  It captured McCain's last-ditch strategy which has devolved into creating a out-of-the-mainstream, can't be trusted caricature of Obama and a likeable ("my friend, my friend, my friend!!!) better-the-evil-that-you-know veteran caricature of himself. No one remembers the answer he gave to the actual question. 

Obama had no equivalent moment that pulled at the audience's heart strings, but he did have more nuanced answers on the economy, he did do a better job explaining how the bailout will affect regular folks, and he did create a clear contrast in the us-against-them foriegn policy approach of  Bush-McCain and the new approach he'll take.

That is, he went beyond the, if you will, frazer-rob-mccain silliness and presented himself, for the umpteenth time, as a calm, unflappable leader with clear, thought out policy prescriptions that differ greatly from those of the last 8 years. 

All that being said, Rob, I have to insist that you start conveying your opinions in a respectable manner befitting, say, the great Ted "Tibor" Rubin.

Tahl

Have you nothing to offer your readers but a Judaized version of Daily Kos?

 For crying out loud, find a conservative writer to balance out the tone of effete little snobs like Brian.  It's really getting tiresome.

All liberals are effete snobs, like Henry Rollins, and all conservatives are super butch men of the people, like George Will.

Morganfrost, we're still trying to find a balance. It wasn't too long ago that we were being labeled "neocon muppet babies" and accused of being far too right. Jewcy in its current incarnation is less a publication than a sort of digital commons hosting an ongoing party of voices curated by several different hosts. The editorial structure we have now is more suited to the publication model and it doesn't lend itself to the sort of fluid curation/hosting of the "commons" Jewcy is moving towards. That structure, as well as the site itself, will be changing in the next few months. Some very exciting initiatives in the offing. And with them, a more pleasing balance of effete little liberal snobs and angry fat conservative assholes. Until then,

a good fast to you.

tr

I think the general "liberal" tone of the articles is more than counterbalanced by the conservatism of many of the more, shall we say, vocal contributors. And by "vocal," I mean "frothing at the mouth".

Tahlraz

I have to insist that you start conveying your opinions in a respectable manner

Until a Democratic controlled Congress, Senate, Executive, and foutth estate of the media impose the fairness doctrine and try to silence all of us, I'll convey my opinions anyway I damn well please. It would not be fitting for a good tolerant progressive but if you want to silence me. Go for it.

I'll take it as a huge compliment.

By the way:

more pleasing balance of effete little liberal snobs and angry fat conservative assholes

Try following your own advice. Peace

Funny, I've been involved with the Democratic Party for over 20 years, and the only people I've ever heard bring up the return of the Fairness Doctrine are Republicans.

Because Republicans have the most to lose from the so-called Fairness Doctrine.

Get it?

Nobody's talked about passing that bill again, AS I SAID IN THE ABOVE POST BUT I GUESS YOU MISSED THAT PART. And Hillary Clinton is not coming to your house in a black helicopter to take your guns.

Get it?