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You mean you were in Vietnam, John? I hadn’t heard!

Posted by Ampersand | August 16th, 2008

There’s nothing wrong with McCain talking about his Vietnam experience all day long, but I find the way it’s framed funny. From the June 11, 2008 AP story “McCain Reluctant To Talk About Vietnam“:

NEW YORK - Prodded on the campaign trail to talk about his compelling personal story, John McCain usually demurs. “I’m very reluctant to do so, as you know,” the presumed Republican nominee told a donor at a small fundraiser here this week.

McCain explains to CNN why ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is his favorite song:

“If there is anything I am lacking in, I’ve got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life,” McCain joked. “I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again.”1

On the other hand, his taste for ABBA is pretty much the thing I like best about McCain.

  1. McCain’s plane was shot down about five years before ABBA came along. (back)

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5 Responses to “You mean you were in Vietnam, John? I hadn’t heard!”

  1. Abell Smith Writes:
    August 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Not to mention all the pictures of him from that time period plastered all over his current advertisements.

    But, of course, he’s “reluctant to bring it up”…

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  2. Renee Writes:
    August 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Reluctant enough to make sure that people remember it. Yeah doesn’t want to glorify war oh BTW did I mention I was held captive by the gooks. Oh did I just use a racial epithet, I only meant it towards my captors. Seriously how did this man become a legitimate candidate for president?

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  3. Robert Writes:
    August 16th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    Well, we tried to find a one-term Senator with no military or business experience, but they were all busy writing their memoirs.

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  4. Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Bearing False Witness Writes:
    August 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    [...] the sand, back when Jaundiced McNasty was a POW (not that he’s mentioning he’s a POW; we all know how he hates to talk about it). Said story turns out to be lifted from Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn — hey, if you’re gonna [...]

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  5. I Look Like Jesus, So They Say | Blog of the Moderate Left Writes:
    August 18th, 2008 at 1:42 am

    [...] Jaundiced McNasty was a POW (not that he’s mentioning he’s a POW; we all know how he hates to talk about it). Said story turns out to be lifted from Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn — hey, if you’re gonna [...]

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