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New Movie Quotes Fellow McCain POW Saying McCain Not Fit To Be President
TPM Election Central —
This one is noteworthy, because it's a first stab at directly taking on McCain's war service in a sustained way by arguing that his POW experience has rendered him temperamentally unfit to be president.
Take a look at the latest film from Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films -- it stars fellow POW Phillip Butler arguing that he knows from bitter experience that a POW past is not what you want in the leader of the free world:
The film has accents -- stylistically, at least -- of the Swift Boat Vets' ads against John Kerry. In it, Butler rather bluntly suggests that McCain's POW past has ...
Brilliant
The Poor Man Institute —
From here, an excellent resource.
McCain Not Fit for Command
Booman Tribune —
Not my opinion, but that of a former POW who knew McCain when both were prisoners of the North Vietnamese (from Robert Greenwald at Brave New Films ): Pass it on.
Bonus Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"I think I can say with authority that the prisoner of war experience is not a good prerequisite for President."
-- Philip Butler, who served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam with John McCain.
Quote-O'-The-Month: P.O.W. edition
The Latest on Air America —
By GottaLaff From the Department of Suh-NAP: "I think I can say with authority that the prisoner of war experience is not a good prerequisite for President."
-- Philip Butler, who served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam with John McCain. How unpatriotically unAmericanly inexperiencedly presumptuous of Philip Butler. Who does he think he is, a P.O.W.?!
Never mind.
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