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Chafee welcomes McCain back to Rhode Island
The last time John McCain visited Rhode Island, it was to campaign and raise money for then-fellow-Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s failed 2006 re-election bid. Today, when McCain made a return visit to the Ocean State to campaign for president, his ol’ buddy Lincoln welcomed him with the news that he’s supporting Democrat Barack Obama. “I’m sure Senator McCain will understand,” said Chafee about the unfortunate timing of his announcement.
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McCain walked into that little embarrassment with eyes closed. He should have stayed away! Chafee already had said he might support Obama. Of course, Chafee had already left the Republican party. What could McCain expect? After losing re-election, Chafee made the remarkable observation that the only Americans who had shown any integrity in recent years were the voters who threw him out of office!
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Rhode Island will probably not be in play anyhow. The liberals own it.
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This is nothing suprising from Chafee.
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Probably? Rhode Island has accorded George W. Bush the most intense disapproval ratings of any State in the country. Even their Republican senator thought the President’s party should lose the Senate.
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So why was McCain surprised, KRM? Can we afford haveing a leader of the free world who walks into blind alleys? If the Republican nominee apparent can get mugged by the mild-mannered, transparent, and impeccable Lincoln Chafee, what’s going to happen to him when he has to deal with terrorists?
Name one successful society that ever awarded high leadership to a man who had suffered long, humiliating, and unredressed captivity.
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So, Scroopy, do you think you’d have survived what McCain survived in the Hanoi Hilton? What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, remember?
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You need to take this up with conservative moralists, not me, NJLawyer! David Brooks recently argued that Hillary had so many scars from her adversities, deserved or not, that she was at a higher risk of infection from feverish emotion. Rather than make you stronger, old wounds are vectors for political germs, he suggested. Think of the ancients who required their representatives to be without blemish. John McCain is a walking bundle of unavenged emasculation. Women, not men, are supposed to have the captivity narratives. Men are supposed to die trying to escape. Those are the rules. I didn’t make them!
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The Ancients?
“John McCain is a walking bundle of unavenged emasculation.”
I don’t know, he seems like a happy guy to me. If his years in the Hanoi Hilton still held him prisoner psychologically, we’d know about it. I think he was an inspiration to his men.
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Happy? He’s anything but sanguine, NJLawyer. Happy ain’t a Beavis n Butthead snicker. McCain’s a classic choleric — no affect, beady eyes, and a disincarnated voice. The only emotion that ever moves in him is a sudden flare of smoldering anger. Of course, he can be sentimental in a self-regarding way, but that hardly contributes to a good temperament.
Even if he checked out of his Hanoi hotel without the psychic wounds of captivity and brutalization, McCain is an emblem of unavenged wrong. The communists got away with insulting his person. Nixon promised peace with honor. McCain came home to a nation disgraced. For all that, he didn’t even take revenge against the Republican party, let alone his captors. We can pity his sufferings but cannot celebrate his revenge.
If he couldn’t avenge his captivity, he won’t be able to avenge the terrorists. It’s all in the Illiad.
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Scroop #5:
What about Nelson Mandela?
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Scroop, ever hear of Joseph in the Old Testament? Imprisoned for years, and then second in command in Egypt?
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As a native-born Rhode Islander, I am embarassed to know that Lincoln Chafee is known by state libs as a good man. Chafee is the most namby-pamby, wishy-washy jabroni in RI pollytix. That he would align himself with B-HO at a time when he is hosting Johnny Mac is totally reprehensible. Of course I’m not surprised, either. Rhode Island has been over-run with RINO’s and libbys for eons, and one still wonders why this is the State of Confusion.
Well, one good distinction: we are the smallest state with the longest official name.
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Oh Mickey, you might want to revisit that link in your article. It goes to: Obama likely to get SEIU endorsement
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Thanks, Justus331, done. The AP articles we link to on our magazine site constantly update, but usually the topics don’t change; this time it did. Thanks again for pointing it out.
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You’re very welcome, my friend.
We’re here to have fun and help each other, right?
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Right!
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Nelson and Joseph weren’t taken in battle. Nelson symbolized resistance to oppression. He overcame his antagonists and eventually imposed justice upon them, achieving a measure of vindication. Although he became head of state he wasn’t the champion of a militant nation. Joseph was trapped by a devious woman. That’s an excusable and manly predicament. Moreover, he achieved his own liberation by demonstrating superior skill. He won his own release. Furthermore, he wasn’t commander in chief.
Unfortunately for McCain, long and miserable captivity doesn’t represent macho prowess. He endured but didn’t escape, he was released but not liberated. The commies won, and were never made to pay for treating him like a ho. The long dormant shame of that national disgrace disqualifies him to be a warrior president, because it makes him act for emotional reasons not remembered by our young braves.
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17 Scroop, your comparison analysis is very insightful.
I’ve often wondered why it was no one has ever asked McCain whether he made any escape attempts. For real VietNam heroics I point to Colonel Bud Day.
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Chafee and the women Maine Senators epitomize the term RINO!!
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Sawgunner, one must go further than that! Anybody who calls themselves Repub, who acts like a Dummycrat shouldn’t even be in pollytix.
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