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‘Jerk’: John McCain Responds to Heckler During Memorial Day Speech

John McCain was in San Diego on Monday giving a Memorial Day speech with Mitt Romney. But not everyone was happy the war hero was there. A heckler in a black POW-MIA shirt stood up and started shouting. He was quickly escorted out, but as he was leaving McCain had a word for him: “jerk.” The crowd erupted:

Twitchy has captured some of the best Twitter responses.

And how’s this for irony: the outburst came on the same day President Obama spoke out about Vietnam vets being denigrated when they returned home.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:28am

    I was there.

    ONE idiot out of 5,000 in attendance stood up and started ranting.

    I turned to my friend and said, “Watch – THIS is all the press will report on about this event.”

    Sure enough ………….

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:16am

      So true and we give them a nice sound bite they can use against us. Although at the moment it seems the right direction to go, but silence can also be golden instead of lowering oneself to the status of the heckler. Everyone already knows he is a Jerk. The Senator and Former Naval Officer should have acted with more dignity. Instead he took everyone around him down to the playground level. Dumb move on McCains behalf.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:00pm

      John must have been irate. To use such harsh language. Thanks for your service and extra sacrifice’s, but I wish you had used that harsh a language during your campaign against Barry

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    • WalkSoft
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:57pm

      Thanks for your service John! Now he’s really the jerk acting just like a Commie infiltrator!

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:58pm

      Sadly we as a nation should have started four years ago on a much more productive course. Ending the entitlement society. But today we are another 5 trillion in debt and four years of lost time beginning to correct the problem. That 5 trillion spent desperately trying to keep the commie utopia of guberment supplying jobs,food,schooling,housing,health care and on and on which is never going to work. Would have been better spent buying everyone out on a sliding age scale from the grip of social security. There that would have been over for good. The time and money wasted on the development Obama care should have been used to develop personal life long health care insurance policies that the guberment would have had nothing to do with. It would have removed the overlapping of paying for the risk possibility of medical payments from auto, home,workman comp insurance. But no we now have to first get a closet commie out of the White House and then go to work addressing the problems. and continue to look at these endless guberment graphs showing how much of the other guys money were going to need to reach the commie goal of paying for it…unbelievable..

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    • born2bfree
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:35pm

      A lot of people do not like McCain, myself I do not think highly of him, but I liked it when he called the man a “jerk”. We have become a society where we are afraid to speak out. If it were me being interupted by a heckler – I would of used a stronger word – like “a–hole”. But that word would make me on the same level as the heckler. “HECK” is a good word, and it is about time for use to speak up and speak out.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:14pm

      McCain didnt call him a jerk because of what he said or the way he carried himself. McCain called him a jerk because that guy had the nerve to interupt someone as “important” as John McCain. McCain is such a liberal

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    • born2bfree
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:53pm

      There is a lot to not like about John McCain, but calling the heckler a ‘jerk’ is not one of them. I am tired of living in our society where we can no longer think or say what is on our mind. There are those who say the heckler has his right to speak out. Of course he does, but only if he was asked to speak in frount of the group with permission. There are some who say McCain lowered himself to the standards of the heckler by calling the man a ‘jerk’. That would be true if he would of used the word(s) I would of used like “a–hole“ or ”what a dumb sh–”.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Thank you for taking 30 seconds at 3:00 PM on Monday May 28th the official “50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War,” to remember all our our fallen but especially our SE Asia Dead, Injured, and Prisoner of War/Missing in Action on this 13-year (May 28, 2012, through November 11, 2025) commemoration to honor and give thanks to a generation of proud Americans.

      Welcome home, NamVets!

      POW/MIA Never Forget: Prisoner of the Taliban Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho

      1,689 SE Asian POW and MIA, never forget
      Vietnam: 1,296
      North Vietnam: 476
      South Vietnam: 820
      Laos: 328
      Cambodia: 58
      China (territorial waters): 7

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:15am

    How extremely rude and ignorant to protest during a MEMORIAL DAY event! OBAMA JERKS, ALL.

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    • FlamingFartSyndrome
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:49am

      How do you know he is a Obama voter?

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    • michael48
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:09am

      flamer…my bookie…your wallet…name the odds and the amount…got guts????

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:24am

      MICHAEL48 could of been a code pink Paulbot

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    • John Burleson
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:36pm

      In response to “flaming fart”: Because he’s a jerk, idiot. It’s time for conservatives to institute a “moge pit” policy and just pass the idiots out the door. I may not agree with McCain but he has a right to speak, aka the First Amendment. And as I read the First Amendment, it doesn’t even insinuate the right to heckle. McCain’s words are important, not this black-shirted overweight Wall Street Occupier. And if this blob actually has something important to say, I suggest he get his own microphone and collect his little band of cockroaches to listen to how stupid he can be and how quick he can be that way.

      John Burleson, ya-da…ya-da…ya-da….

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  • Redmanblackdog
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:03am

    McCains a rino! Get rid of him.

    I think he was brainwashed by the commuists.

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    • sndrman
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:15am

      i beg to differ not the commies but the democrat party oh sorry your right the commies my fault………..the “new democrat party,is the old commie party”

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  • Blazen420
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:47am

    McCain may have done some great things in his life, but he is still a neo-con, rhino.

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:56am

      Sadly, I agree

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    • Turin
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:04am

      The best thing that can be said about McCain is about something that happened TO him. The worst things are what he has DONE.

      While his time in uniform is to be honored, I, for one, will not allow him to wrap the flag around all of the progressive ideological garbage that he has foisted upon the American people that has resulted in the steady erosion of our freedoms.

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    • chrisden
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:45pm

      McCain uses his war hero status like Obama uses his black heritage. We cannot disagree with McCain because he proved himself to be a war hero and we cannot disagree with Obama because that would mean we are racist.

      Truth of the matter is both of these men have been destructive leaders of differing magnitudes I fear Romney will be the same.

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    • busterpuddles
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:28pm

      OMG! Folks, this isn’t about neocons, politics or any of that crap. IT’S MEMORIAL DAY!

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:42am

    What ever happened to civilty?? What ever happened to going to an event and just sit and listen with respect?? You don’t like John McCain then find some other left wing radical to listen to! If I disn‘t care for John McCain I wouldn’t waste my time and go to listen to his speech! Here is the difference I see in Republican’s and Democrats.. Republican’s for the most part are more tolerant, have more respect.. and last of all..don’t put their will upon others. The guy in the audience and guys like him or the left.. they seem to think they are always right.. and if you think differently than them then they will shout you down. I don’t know how many times I have listened to a liberal leftwing nut and bitten my tongue.. it doesn’t do any good to argue with them, tell them or show the facts.. they believe themselves and don’t want to hear anything else! I feel sorry for them! Ignorance is bliss!

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:24am

      you are correct they want to silence all oposition. they infiltrate any and everything and nothing is sacred to them, not the church pews we sit in, not funerals, not anything it is all game for the left to come in and start their blathering nonsense. I am so tired of it. to them nothing is sacred holy or off limits. Especially the videos of them in churches disrupting services, things like this where we are honoring those lost, it is just disgusting. these lefties are the ones that should have been spanked or told no as a child and still have the impulse reaction and control of a two year old. it is very frustrating at times as I believe in more speech not silencing it, there is just no speaking with the left, they are blinded by their baseless opinions and cannot see reason ever. there is no discussing with them, they are radical for their cause.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:47am

      Ignorance breeds ignorance.

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    • Kisses6350
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:29pm

      Do you ever read what you font? In America, people have the right of free speach! Why should he bee discouraged to use what so many of thr fonters on this site use? If he wanted to call John McCain, or anyone a name for that matter, he could! My goodness, some of you should really stop and think before texting. I thought about this; ” There are some ignorate,racist, hyperchristians on this site” before i fonted it! *** Smirks***

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    • Full Throttle
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:05pm

      Kisses – You talk about free speech, then want to silence Abby‘s and others’ free speech here by asking them to think before they “font”. Maybe you should think before you font.

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    • John Moser
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:57pm

      Kisses, are there ANY words that you do know how to spell? My goodness, you should stop, “think” and learn how to spell before “texting”(for the literate that would be typing).

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  • southernpatriot
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:42am

    McCain is a traitor to the US and has been since he sold out to the Vietnamese during that war. McCain traded top secret info to the enemy in Vietnam for medical treatment. Info exposed was “route packages” flown by US pilots to bomb North vietnam. The enemy readjusted their air defenses accordingly and hence we lost many more aircraft thanks to McCain. McCain is a puppet for the military-industrial complex and is one of the main senators pushing all these recent conflicts in Libya, syria, etc… Not a hero or patriot in my book!!!

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    • Seede
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:18am

      Never heard that before. Where is that info and is it verified? Just asking.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:18am

      I don‘t care for McCain but I’d like to see your proof of these things you rant about. If no proof, then you are nothing more than a false accuser.

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    • hentytapes
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:30am

      SouthernPatriot – seriously dude, you need to back that up. Been a close follower of the news for decades and this is the first I’ve ever heard of this outrageous accusation. Not a big McCain fan, but weep for the torture he endured in captivity. Hell the guy can’t even comb his own hair because his arms no longer reach above his shoulders from being hung up by them for hours, with his hands tied together behind his back and hooked to a bolt in the ceiling. Hang like that for one second. Show some respect. Back up your statements with something. Anything. Jerk.

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    • Evileye
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:53am

      Do you have MC Cain and Jane Fonda mixed up

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:51pm

      Got proof? How many here went through what he did when he a POW. Ever been tortured ? Ever been tortured for days? I cannot judge the man .I was not there but I do know he served this country and made a hugh sacrifice. How about you? If you did thank you if you did not then best keep your opions to yourself . POW’s do not like to talk about what happened because of the pain and to see people still treating these guys this way is a sin. I could buy or get a POW shirt from my uncle he was one. War leaves scars on some and wounds on others that never heal.

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    • spfoam1
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:01pm

      1st, you have no proof of what you claim. 2nd, tell me what you would say if someone was breaking your bones for fun? Jerk.

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    • Spotlight44
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:38pm

      McCain was actually offered special treatment and release if he co-operated with the ChiCom’s .He refused,the man still has trouble lifting up his arms because they suspended him from a beam and pulled out his shoulders.You obviously are a liar and would never last one day of McCains ordeal .Go back to kool aid move on.

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:59pm

      southernpatriot: Liar.

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    • pcochran
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Southern Patriot, John McCain did confess to war crimes against the North Vietnamese people. But you have to understand that he was in a POW camp and being tortured every day. He and most of the other American POW’s were beaten, starved, left out in the elements and denied any medical care unless they did give up secrets and confess to war crimes. John McCain was in constant horrific pain. I don’t remember most of the injuries he suffered, but his jaw was broken, his arms and every other bone in his body was broken. He can not lift his hands above his head and his face is permanently disfigured. He is not the only one that traded info for medical care. I am not saying it is right, I am just saying that it was a matter of being broken and surviving a horrific situation.

      I do agree that he is not the best person to represent the Republican ideal, but this was an event honoring the men and women that died to keep us free. He should not have said anything about the man that was heckling, but he has earned the right to say and do what he wants.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:39am

    mccain needs to go but this is no place for that to happen….wear a cardboard sign on the street corner.

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  • Unix
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:36am

    Ok, the guy was a jerk, nuff said, no need to bash McCain, but he did vote for NDAA, Patriot Act, didn’t he, jerk!

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  • rochesterruler
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:30am

    His principles are taking away our freedoms which as an officer he swore to protect and defend. Yes he did the right thing in Vietnam but he must have forgot his oath. There are 2 things worth fighting for. 1 Your home and 2 The bill of rights. Everything else is ********.

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  • ricckky
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:28am

    Get McCain out of my face–He no more represents the true values of America than O-BUT-A LIAR–I am a conservative but also find McCain a Pain in the rear!!!!!

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  • doomytram
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:16am

    McCain is an embedded goiter faced jerk. What is going to try to spend 50 years in the Senate? The Senate needs more Tea Party Patriots that wants to work to help our country get back into some semblance of fiscal sanity. Not an 80 year old war monger who doesn’t want to work, just talk.

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  • AUsername
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:09am

    Some folks in the audience after they said throw him out, take him down and i think i hear someone say Ron Paul at 0:19

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:01am

    Glenn Beck, savior of my own, know we cannot be ruled by love if we allow war.

    Disarm.

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    • hi
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:35am

      Only those with the most arms can stop war.

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    • Roberto G. Vasquez
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:41am

      @Mouss

      Disarm??? Isn’t that what the Jews did just before they were packed off to the death camps by Hitler?

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:54am

      Si vis pacem, para bellum

      So we have “Ma Duce”, the “Pig” and the “Mini”, always ready for duty when called upon…

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Si vis pacem, para bellum

      Or, for the Liberals who can’t think that high, a quote from Leonidas:

      Molon Labe!

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:24pm

      @ moussiagilda

      Disarm?

      Come and take my weapon. Please.

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  • AUsername
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:58am

    Sounds like the heckling guy was talking about Israels attack of the USS Liberty and something about Mccain covering up for him.

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  • AUsername
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:57am

    John Mccain is a jerk, putting our troops in non defensive wars, voting for every right stealing bill and i am glad this evil man did not become president, i know Obama is bad but i am still sure he would be worse. Arizonians need to vote this guy out.

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  • recoveringneocon
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:50am

    What was the man yelling? Can anyone make it out? Wonder why it is not in the article ? The Jerk had a POW-MIA shirt on. Should I take my Black Flag down?

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    • AUsername
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:02am

      I heard him saying Mccain what about the USS Liberty, why you covering up for Israel, something like that.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:48am

    I was a POW debriefer. What those men endured is beyond understanding. While I am not a fan of McCain, I do respect his service. He earned the privilege to speak at Memorial Day events.

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    • Cherbear
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:30am

      I CANNOT even imagine what any of the vets endured and wholeheartedly agree he’s earned the privilege. To even come out of that with an ounce of sanity is amazing to me.

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  • bcope01
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:46am

    Romney needs to “lose” McCain if he wants to win this election. Thanks McCain for your military service, no thanks for anything else. Go away. Please retire.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:52am

      McCain should have quit politics when Megan McCain started opening her mouth. McCain represents the moderate wing of the Republican party and this union shows where Romney’s heart is

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:59am

      “Corpse” McCain; the perfect RINO; been on the government ‘tit’ all his lfe; from cradle, to school, to job to the senate………and we’ll pay to bury this SOB. Gen Giap should have saved us the trouble and did him in when he had him.

      He and his ‘wanna be celiberty’ daughter turn my stomach.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:42am

    That was spectacularly lame, but it was all a drunk like McCain could wring out of his mind.

    I hate, hate, hate alcohol.

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  • klevalt
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:36am

    Perfect response.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:29am

    Let me clarify my last statement, the “jerk” was the man yelling a McCain, but McCain did do all of those things I mentioned.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:29am

    The heckler chose the wrong time and place to sound off,and I don’t agree with McCain on anything except in this case.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:28am

    Why is Romney tying himself to someone like McCain when there are plenty of other good conservatives?

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    • piper60
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:41am

      “Other” good conservatives? McCain is NOT a conservative. He is a RINO at best, and a d.i.d. at worst.
      d.i.d.=democrat in disguise.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:56am

      Trump, McCain,…….If not those 2 then who? Maybe someone who didn’t voted for the……
      National Defense Authorization Act
      Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
      Federal Aviation Administration Act
      Increasing the Debt Ceiling
      Unbalanced Budgets
      Department of Homeland Security
      Patriot Act
      TSA

      Get my point?

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:27am

    Like McCain or not, that “jerk” was a tortured POW who was offered the chance to be set free if he made a statement against his country and he refused. Later he was offered to be let free and he refused the offer because his fellow POW‘s weren’t going to also be set free. I personally do not care for his politics, but I admire and have deep respect for his personal principles.

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    • klevalt
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:37am

      why would you refer to John McCain as the “jerk”?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:39am

      Reasonable assessment you put forward, and ditto.

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    • Seede
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:50am

      No one can demean what McCain did some years ago and most appreciate his service but that is not the McCain that he turned into. He turned into a problem. I heard him on O’Reilly some years ago when the border issue was just getting hot. McCain would do nothing for AZ at that time and was for illegals 100%– I was astounded at his ignorance of the situation and it took years to get his attention to the problem. McCain is not a problem solver. He moves too slow on issues of importance. I love the guy but he should not lead.

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    • justangry
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:22pm

      I don’t like him since he went to Washington. Prior to that he was a fine human being. Happens to the best of them it seems. My congressmen Stivers and of course, Allen West. Must be something in the water there in Washington.

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  • samnjoeysgrama
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:26am

    A little of that during the last Presidential election might have changed the outcome!

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