Discussion: McCain: Those Accusing Me Of Bergdahl Flip-Flop Are 'Lying'

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Fucking paleohypocrite needs to retire.

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The fact that he had said he would support prisoner exchanges in the past does not negate what he said just because the monkeys are screaming.

Dude, you were recorded. It was on the internet. It.Is.Eternal.

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This is no country for that old man.

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keep digging ass----

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Shut up you old fuck. You weren’t even aware of the issues at the VA clinic two minutes away from your office because you were too busy yapping it up in the media as you are now. Go retire to one of your seven homes!

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Well, McCain was a POW so based on everything the Republican party has told me over the past week this means that McCain can never be trusted about anything ever. Right?

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The Straight Flop Express.

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Sounds you’re the one that is desperate to defend your flip-flop…by the way where did those VC you were traded for 2 years before the war ended end up?

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“See?” Maddow said. “This is the Rosetta Stone, this is the magic decoder ring that tells you how Washington works right now. Say that President Obama should do something, then pray that he doesn’t actually do it, because if he does actually do it, you’re going to have to come out against the thing that you have been recommending all along.”

“It’s amazing,” she said. “John McCain, I’d have to make you up if you didn’t exist.”

Case in point: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the prisoner of the Afghanistan war whose return Obama traded five Guantanamo prisoners for.

Weeks ago, in an interview with Anderson Cooper, McCain said, “I would be inclined to support such a thing,” with regards to swapping the five Taliban combatants held at Guantanamo for Bergdahl, particularly in light of the “rapid deterioration” of Bergdahl’s health seen in videos released to the Pentagon by the Taliban.

That, said Maddow, was Step One: McCain suggests Obama do something. Then comes Step Two, in which the president actually does it.

“Step Three?” Maddow said. “Well, now John McCain has to pretend to be against his own idea.”

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Dare ya’ to go on Maddow’s set, double dog dare ya’.

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The Taliban has an office?

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McCain continued, “This whole end-of-war prisoner exchange thing is just so uncouth. Why couldn’t Bergdahl be born to a powerful military officer? At the very least, Bergdahl could have signed a confession to the Taliban in order to get released. Worked for me!”

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John - it is on your website: May 31 2014

STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON RELEASE OF SGT. BOWE BERGDAHL
Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today issued the following statement on the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity in Afghanistan:

“I am pleased that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is finally being returned safely to his family and loved ones after nearly five years of captivity. All Americans share in the joy that the Bergdahl family feels today and for which they have waited so long.

“I have been informed that, in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl’s release, the Administration is now in the process of transferring five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo to Qatar. These particular individuals are hardened terrorists who have the blood of Americans and countless Afghans on their hands. I am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent Taliban extremists never return to the fight against the United States and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in Afghanistan. The American people, and our Afghan partners, deserve nothing less.”

You and Scalia are showing signs of an old age disease.

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And anyone who quotes me is also lying, too, as well!

Also.

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Old McCain forgets that everything we say will live forever. He has become such an embarrassment. I wish he would retire. He has lost our respect.

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I don’t think President Obama said anything about it. These republicans blame everything on President Obama. They even blame their flip flopping on President Obama. Senator McCain is becoming a man who is starting to sound like Romney and his etch-a-sketch.

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“Old soldiers never die…”

That appears to be the primary problem.

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And anyone who quotes me is also lying, too, as well!

Also.

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The media continues to haul him out to give his off the wall rants against a President who handed him his lunch in '08. But he has not gotten over that defeat. Poor pitiful hater!

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