Re: Johnny boy is not even officially a natural born U.S. Citizen!

Being somewhat aware with your past connection to armed conflict, I should probably resist the urge to reply. This reply is not intended to be personal to you. Whether or not you will be willing to keep separate your past experience from present circumstances, I dunno. I hope you will be but either way, I am making an exception here because of how it is funny, in an odd, sad way, that certain people in the high ranks - like brass, have made their careers and feathered their nests along the way through exploiting the cliche "serving their country".

That is quite a deal. People often connected to brass create a war. They then enlist brass in the process of pouring young bodies into that conflict, to kill, injure, die or be injured. If anyone should happen to protest or object to all of this, well, these people have at their ready disposal a patented "how dare you?!" trump card waiting to be played; "serving their country". The thing that really bothers me the most in all of this is that there are people by the hundreds of thousands and millions who have died, and continue to die as we speak, falsely believing they were/are serving their country. Maybe you don't see the difference, maybe you do. Most Americans 40 years or older have family and friends who were injured or killed while believing they were in service to their country. People have been trained to always equate people serving their country with people "serving their country". There is a line of distinction, not always clear to see, sometimes effort is required to become aware of it. Out of memory for my own dead loved ones, I do not and will not equate their having served their country with other people who merely serve themselves by way of "serving their country". To equate the two blemishes the memory of those who truly did serve their country.

To repeat, the present day country to be served READ: the establishment of whores and johns, has reached the point that it now all runs together, difficult to see where one begins and the other ends. It was not as easy for the average person to discern back then, but this phenom was already well on it's way to manifesting even back in the Viet Nam days, and even back in the days of Korea and WW. There may have been a time when the family McClain was serving their country; maybe. I'm doubtful, but willing to concede the possibility. That was then, John McCain today is clearly "serving his country", and I find it disingenuous and maloderous that towards his desire to seek higher ofice, he is exploiting his dubious past where & when it is highly questionable whether he and his mommy and daddy and uncles and admirals before him were serving country versus merely "serving their country".

It is especically funny the way many people have grown used to attaching this cliche to themselves like so much campaing bunting in the process of ultimately serving themselves because - hey, look at me, I'm "serving my country!" ....it's that kind of serving country that is oddly funny too. This is about as odd as the stuffed shirts and skirts that love to get in front of a camera and microphone, especially during the 4-year election cycle, especially at VFW gatherings, for the photo op of spouting more cliches "spilling the American treasure" in grave, ominous tones ... "getting our treasure out of harms way", when it was the efforts of these same brass cretins and the overlords above them who placed the treasure in harms way in the first place out of desire to "serve their country". This is really about the use of deceptive semantics, the kind like a George Carlin has observed "is about covering up, burying the truth with jargon".

" 'shell shock', simple, honest terminology that describes how a mind has been stressed beyond the point of saturation.... maybe if they had stuck to that simple terminology rather than burying it in jargon like post-traumatic-stress-disorder, maybe, I betcha, some of those boys coming home from Viet Nam would have gotten the care and attention they needed and deserved" Did they? No, but they certainly got plowed under very nicely by some tricked up jargon.

If John McCain truly served his country the way he says, if he really was badly abused and tortured for 5 years, what on earth is he doing running for president? Isn't it generally known that people tortured for years on end have mental scars that even under the best of situations, will remain with these people to carry for the rest of their lives? What is it exactly that enamors Americans with the idea of putting such an emotional scar into their higest office? Shouldn't such an emotionally scarred veteran be more concerned with healing old hurts? Shouldn't they be more concerned with retiring to some quiet place instead of wanting to be stay involved with more "serving their country" at the power points where many of the buttons of power, strings, flashy lights and action are located? Is it really a wonderful idea to sanction the placing of an admitted, emotionally scarred individual into these positions of power? Tweet