NEWS: McCain: An Amazing Douche

POLITICS: McCain: An Amazing Douche

John McCain is an insanely rich man. Johnny and his wife own eight houses. That’s pretty sweet. How many houses do you own? The wife is an heiress to the third largest Budweiser distributor in America. The company is worth $300 million, which makes Cindy McCain worth a sweet $100 million.

Wow. A private jet. That’s some serious common-man shit right there. And just like most guys, the family owns a piece of a major league baseball team.

Groovy. I’ve bought a few baseball tickets, so we’ve got quite a bit in common. Oh, and Johnny likes to entertain the press at his modest estate.

Of course, the majority of this information was released with Grandpa’s tax return information to the press. John apparently lives on a paltry salary.

They probably use his salary to tip the staff.

Now, you’re probably wondering why I’m bringing up the incredible wealth of Mr. and Mrs. McCain. It’s no crime to be rich, even if you keep calling your opponent an “Elitist.” Well, what about a guy whose family is worth over $100 million who is taking yearly Navy benefits of $58,358?

That’s how much McCain took in last year for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW. He sort of forgot to list it in the tax return he released to the media, but that’s probably because the benefits not taxed. How sweet is that? Fifty-eight thousand tax free. Might actually mean something if he wasn’t a crazy rich millionaire.

His body is so “limited” that he hiked the Grand Canyon in 2006. Actually, his staff described him as “technically disabled," the poor bastard. Actually, McCain did experience some horrible injuries. When his plane went down, he had a broken leg and two broken arms. The Vietnamese then hung him from his broken leg for a while, which is totally not cool. Maybe that was why Johnny sung like a bird when he was in captivity – after a whole 13 days.

McCain was shot down on October 26th, 1967. By November 9th, he was giving interviews to foreign correspondents, providing information on his prior command, casualties and tactics, which is kind of in direct violation of the Military Code of Conduct. But, hey, he was tortured. He spent 5 ½ years as a POW. I’m sure some of you are saying the guy deserves the cash.

He would, if he wasn’t a hypocritical douche. See, Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel wrote a new GI bill last year that would increase troop college education benefits. Considering how royally we are fucking over our troops, it’s pretty much a no brainer to increase their education benefits.

Well, not for “58K A Year McCain.” Even though Webb practically begged him to support the bill, McCain opposed it.

Nice. He didn’t even bother to show up for the vote. See, he knows what it is like to be a soldier. Like most soldiers, he returned home, divorced his model wife because she had become fat and married a multi-millionaire. Now he collects a sweet 58 thousand a year while opposing a needed increase in education benefits.



So, why does McCain oppose the bill? It’s actually the most disgusting reason you could think up.

John doesn’t want to give soldiers incentive to leave the military. The Pentagon is opposed to the bill – and Bush will veto it – because…

Oh, the horror. We can’t have that, now can we? So, every time you look at McCain, think about how that millionaire is taking in $58,000 a year, tax free, while opposing an increase in education benefits for our soldiers, because it will keep them stuck in the military.

McCain is a class A cunt.

FearTheReaper said:

+1

And that is the clinical diagnostic term.

I am a plank owner (part of the original crew) of the USS John S. McCain (DDG-56), a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer.

I am proud to have served (with a touch of sarcasm) on this mighty warship, named after the Senator's grandfather and father, both Navy Admirals.



I wonder if they would approve of him now.

McCain's whole argument against the new GI Bill is pretty weak sister, better yet was the exchange of statements between his camp in and Obama's over the Memorial Day weekend.

At a time when veterans are returning from a dangerous warzone, to find their college benefits barely cover half their tuition costs at the local community college, there's nothing like seeing a Senator turn the conversation into a dick measuring contest and stating that their position is beyond reproach because they served and you didn't.

It's vaguely amusing that part of John McCain's plan for cutting the cost of Medicaid includes asking those above a certain wealth to not collect Medicaid benefits since they could afford healthcare out of pocket... but he needs sixty grand a year tax free despite his wife's private jet?

It's so hard to be mean about John McCain, he was a Veteran, a POW, tortured, went through some horrific shit. But then he makes it so hard to be nice, too.

Fixed.

This makes me want to split the skull of every McCain supporter. Its generally true that these same people support Bush, making it that much easier to hate them. The current GI Bill is a fucking joke. Besides being inadequate for todays tuition, its very easy for them(Govt) to fuck you out of it. Let me explain.

The military is crazy about retention, people that re-up, and they offer crazy bonuses for those that do. In order to keep the GI Bill when you get out, you have to have served 20mos out of a 30mo enlistment(cant find actual numbers right now). So, lets say, you sign up for 3yrs active, and you only serve 18mos before re-enlisting, you effectively lose your education benefits. Ethically, they should tell you and keep you from doing so, but their need for retention numbers far out weighs your right to an education. Im sure they figure you lost the GI BIll, maybe itll break your soul and keep you in for life.

Your country is FUCKED

If you watched the Daily show. McCain read from a report citing that the military would lose 16 percent retention because of this new bill. He used this a s a reason to not sign on to the bill. In the same report the military would gain 16 percent new recruits because of the new GI bill. So basically he's a duoche bag who cherry picks whatever he likes from the same reports. Kida like Bush did when they looked for a reason to go to war.

I just keep wondering, how can McCain be the best the GOP could put up? Or did they just give him the nomination because they know they're going to lose and it's sort of a last gift for him before he exits public office.

I Already wouldnt vote McCain even if his rich wife personaly paid me. But i heard about this and was just disgusted with everyone who opposed it. How can we as a country ask our citizens to serve in a war we shouldnt be in and then want to screw them out of vetrans benefits. What we are doing to the military is bad enough. They should be hooked up with the best when they come home.

Saw a picture in the paper of O'Bama riding his bike with kid in tow around, I assume Chicagoland.

Hopefully not along LSD where the tourists ask the most stupid questions like asking ME, technicaly a tourist, what that big body of water is.

Jon Stewart was talking to the writer of the aforementioned military bill last night, and he also expressed shock that McCain wouldn't support it. "It's almost like instead of making things BETTER for our troops, they're just trying to make coming home crappier," he said. It earned a big laugh, but it sounds accurate to me.

Now I'm even more pissed off that the Diamondbacks swept the Cubs in the playoffs last year....

Great. He's Irish, and an extremist muslim terrorist. What's next? Probably a gay-commie-fascist too.

Faith and Begorah!

It's saddest of all to think that 10 years ago, I looked upon Senator McCain as a respectable and admirable man. I am sorely disappointed in his wretched transformation into yet another crooked politician.

And he's Hitler. And the anti-Christ. And did we mention his name rhymes with Osama? Shit, he might even be black.

You couldn't tell?!

vorbei pointed out to me another article with even more reasons he is a total douche.
McCain's first wife
What a nice guy

I think there was a fair number of people, from both parties, who share that sentiment.

I felt similarly, but that was long, long ago. He seems to have done a complete 180 from how he used to portray himself. Now, I'm just as disgusted with him as the criminals in the Bush administration.

yup. i liked him enough to cast my vote for him for senator of arizona

The sad thing is if you look at the other candidates who ran, he probably is the best they can put up.

McCain is an a-hole for not supporting this bill. Every politician is dishonest and in the end become someone's pawn.