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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:08 PM
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I don't want to appear stupid, but what's this about McCain and a cross?
:shrug:

Help a sister out :)
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:10 PM
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1. apparently it is true
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:10 PM
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2. ....
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:19 PM
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8. McShameless panders with his POW stories & some of those
stories are blatant lies. The US Corp Media is afraid to confront the Hero.
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vets74 Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:36 PM
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26. McCain commits BLASPHEMY by lying about The Cross
McCain implied that Obama is an Antichrist with his "The One" ads. Then, John McCain acted out that role himself.

McCain gave detailed descriptions of his treatment in Hanoi beginning in 1973. At no time prior to 1999 did he indicate that any Vietnamese guard had helped him, much less being a secret Christian.

Now, in a scene plagiarized practically verbatim from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, McCain claims that such a guard existed and that a Cross was drawn in the sand as a Christmas gesture.

McCain surely lies. He seeks power. He wants to win above all. He panders to the Fundamentalist flock, telling this blasphemous story to seek their votes. This is evil.

Similarly, McCain founded his political career on betrayal. He left his wife and three children to gain access to $100,000,000 by a second marriage and to get his main funding from liquor interests over the ensuing decades. May God have mercy on his soul.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:14 PM
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3. even if you were stupid, i'd love you anyway....
:loveya:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:17 PM
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7. LOL
awwwwwwwwwwwww :hi:

:loveya:
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:15 PM
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4. Plagiarism CatWoman...
That's what it is about. Plagiarism used to play to the fundies and stolen from Solzhenitsyn.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:15 PM
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5. Once you hear the story, you'll probably be sorry you asked
because you'll be sick for at least a week. (I know I gag whenever I hear it mentioned)

:puke:
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:16 PM
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6. In a nutshell it's this: McCain thought up a story to pull at the fundy heartstrings
combining his valor as a POW with his supposed cred as a Christian. Turns out he borrowed the story from Solzhenitsyn. McCain: Busted.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:45 PM
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11. McCain is only busted if the MSM will report the story.
I'm not holding my breath.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:56 PM
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13. The New York Times reported it and I've seen it on my yahoo news page.
I'd say that enough of a ripple has been made on this and the cross in the sand debacle that any bloom McCaint got from this has withered and died.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:01 PM
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15. That's a good sign.
I hope it gets a big play.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:05 PM
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17. It will not get a big play. That's reserved for Democrats who commit indiscretions.
However, I think it's out there.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:20 PM
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9. When McCain was in the Roman guard, he was supposed to watch this Jewish prisoner... (n/t)
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:26 PM
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10. Plagiarism?
No! It is a blatant lie. McLame has done this before. He lies about a lot of things. He is rarely called out on his blatant lies.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:32 PM
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24. !
:rofl:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:45 PM
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12. Apparently he actually nailed Jesus.
"Youthful indiscretion" he called it.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:57 PM
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14. He wasn't really that young at the time - just another McCaint excuse.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:04 PM
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16. We can't tell you because of the cone of silence. nt
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:30 PM
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22. LOLOLOLOL!!!
:rofl:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:07 PM
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18. Here's the courtyard of the Hanoi Hilton, still preserved.


McCain claims that while prisoner here, a prison guard (who was secretly a Christian) drew a cross for him in the dirt on Xmas while no one was looking, then wiped it out.

Notice the cement floor.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:10 PM
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19. Maybe they were over by the tree.
Yeah, that's the ticket, we were over by the tree. :sarcasm:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:31 PM
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23. and he's married to Morgan Fairchild too
:)
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:27 PM
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20. McSame was challenged to a game of tic tac toe in the dirt by one of his
V.C. captors, and being the distorter of truth that he is, in his mind, he thought he was having worship in the dirt service, so he made up a story, and he only recalled 1/2 line to the story. You didn't miss much.

:)
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:29 PM
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21. It's really good - really really good. McCain stepped in it big time.
Andrew Sullivan's onto it like a pit bull on a bone -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6659053

More proof McCain is a LIAR.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:35 PM
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25. This pastor asked him "What does your Christian faith mean to you?"
And all McLame could come with was a pile of shit. :banghead:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:36 PM
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27. something about his youth
back when he went by the name "Sparticus"....they hung him up on a cross until he was delirious and hollering "hey you damn kids, get off my lawn!!"

he was never the same after that....:rofl:
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