Why is McCain suddenly downplaying 'Cross in the dirt'?

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/why-is-mccain-s.html

Why is McCain suddenly downplaying 'Cross in the dirt'?

McCain's ghost writer Mark Salter now claims CITD wasn't a pivotal moment for McCain:



But on Saturday McCain said:



And in October 2007, according to the Christian Science Monitor, McCain said it was the most profound experience of his time as POW (emphasis added):




It's obvious that Salter is trying to minimize a story that McCain himself was hyping just two days earlier.

What is he afraid of?

it looks like McCain has been wholly invented by Salter

...he just wasn't speaking for his campaign.

:silly:

Faux NEws didn't mention the CitD story ONCE during their analysis.

It is obvious he knows the "cross in the sand" was a crock and it was a crock he, as McCain's ghost writer thought would make his creation look good, he's afraid that, now, people know he and his manufactured candidate are lying.

they could refer to it when he was running. I imagine there are many lies in there. I also imagine they had no clue that we would question the tall tales of a POW. :eyes:

'John McCain the sacrosanct POW' and they cannot afford for that firewall to be breached in any way because if it is, the whole creation that is 'John McCain the sacrosanct POW' is laid bare.

lets go to Vietnam and meet the guard.

My hunch is he doesn't exist.. and never existed

Why the change of heart only when it benefitted him? This all stinks to high heaven.

You said a MOUTHFUL, Mark.

So did McPlagiarist. Too bad Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said it FIRST.

McScrewtheTroops was a traitor who aided and abetted the USA's enemies during the USA-Vietnam War. PERIOD. He violated his oath as an officer and he violated the Code of Conduct. PERIOD.

ASK the Vietnam Vets and POWs...and compare the treatment of McCain with that of other POWs:

http://www.usvetdsp.com/smith_mc.htm

McCain admits that three to four days after he was captured, he promised the Vietnamese, "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital."

On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service story headlined "PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral," reported one of McCain's radio broadcasts: "Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the United States commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner.

Even though news reports of McCain collaborating with the enemy continued from the time he was captured in 1967 through 1970, the Navy never considered prosecution as an option.

Instead, Pentagon pencil pushers chose a political spin that lifted McCain, the former POW turned U.S. Senator, up to a glorified pedestal where he sprouted a halo and wings and became America's "POW-hero" and today a presidential candidate.


Compared to:

After two-years of being held as prisoners of war under the most brutal circumstances in the steamy, mosquito infested jungle of South Vietnam, Army Staff Sgt. George E. Smith and Sp/5 Claude McClure could take the torture no more. They asked for and were granted parole. In November 1965, the two demoralized POWs were led across the Cambodian border and released by their Viet Cong captors.

Following their release, Smith and McClure held a press conference in Phnom Penh and made statements that opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

After the debriefing the Army informed them that they were being charged with violating Article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by "preparing, furnishing, and delivering to the Viet Cong certain documents, statements and writings inimical to the interest of the U.S."

Shocked and demoralized, Smith and McClure quickly learned that the charge of aiding the enemy carries the death penalty and that they could be tried by a military tribunal without witnesses.

Then, the Army dropped another bomb shell in their laps. Their debriefings, which they had given freely and openly were to be used as evidence against them.

Members of the press accepted the Pentagon's accusations against the two enlisted men without investigation or verification of the facts. Some elements of the media printed stories which referred to them as "turncoats."
...
In April 1966, the Pentagon announced to the press that although Smith and McClure had not been totally cleared, the charges were being dismissed because there was "not sufficient evidence to prove a violation."

Smith and McClure were given a less than honorable discharge and drummed out of the Army, their reputations tarnished forever.

his military records released? Now why is that? And why was he protected?

This is one reason that the only "Vets for McCain" organisations you will ever see are comprised of people who spay and neuter for a living.

In the OP, McCain said to a town hall group about the Cross in the Sand story

"And I will never forget the fact that no matter where you are, no matter how difficult things are, there's always going to be someone of your faith and your belief and your devotion to your fellow man who will pick you up and help you out and bring you through."

Someone of "Your faith"? "Your belief"? "Your devotion to your fellow man"?

How very small.

What Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew is, "Lo, I am with you always".

Christ/ God will be with you, love you, and comfort you even if you are suffering terribly.

There is no promise that you will be healthy, rich or safe. And there certainly isn't any promise that there will always be another Baptist (or Catholic, Muslim, Jew, Pentecostal, or whatever you are identified with) to help you when you need help.

McCain gives evidence every time he speaks about religion that he knows litte about Christianity - nor any of the other major religions, either.

McCain's version of things seems - surprise! - self-centered. It's all about your own (really, his) beliefs. Not about the great mysteries of life or the universe or the great themes of life and redemption.

No, to him it seems to be about his version of some pedestrian notion of validating his own brand of religious precepts.

That's why.

:shrug:

The gullible freepers never get enough of the Christian Superiority propaganda. Even in Vietnam you can run into a nice Christian person! Christians are good people, and good people are Christians. Yaaaay! Let's vote for McLame!

Was the Vietnamese guy who saved McCain after he crashed also a Christian? He doesn't seem to have made as big as impression as CITD guy. Maybe if he would have made the sign of the cross in some way McCain would thank him for saving his sorry ass.

.... http://www.kathleenacademy.com/funzone/KADTAP.WAV