Comments on: Cindy McCain: Vietnam vets with PTSD were 18-year-olds who didn’t know what they were doing.

By: kennybee

kennybee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:59:29 +0000

Unbelievable the comments made by “the elite”! I do not think Mrs. Mccain has had to stress about anthing except tax time, how to hide her INHERITED Millions from the federal government!! To make such an ignorant statement about vets and PTSD. I am a 20 year combat vet and I was hurt in a fall off the deck of a ship 25 feet drop in a combat zone and I still have nightmares, mood swings and agitated states. I feel insulted by this woman and Senator McCain should talk to his wife and correct her!!Thank God he was not elected president otherwise all vets with PTSD would be in a colony like lepers!!

By: reh

reh — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:35:00 +0000

Why haven’t these ignorant comments gathered more media attention?

By: 49erDem

49erDem — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:46 +0000

Okay, okay, we’ve finally found something John McCain was right about. She really IS a c*nt.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:08 +0000

Oh, my. It is the 18-year olds fault that they did not get proper training but that macho guy McCain did. Cindy McCain just showed that she has been perched in that ivory tower for far too long.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:06:55 +0000

Th veterans`s are going to flock over to Mcwars camp I can see it know,NOT!

By: kasinca

kasinca — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:37:00 +0000

Johnnies was not on the ground in Vietnam. He flew jets over North Vietnam and dropped bombs. This woman is a drug addict.

By: SKdeA

SKdeA — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:59:46 +0000

She’s the Borg Queen.

By: Rutabaga

Rutabaga — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:51:47 +0000

Good God, Cindy, what color is the sky in your world?

By: wiley

wiley — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:27:12 +0000

Them workin’ poor. They had the trouble of war. So maladjusted.

My officer husband, who volunteered, used imprisonment to sharpen his leadership skills. When life gives you lemons…

See how special we are. Magical really. I can eat glass, you know.

By: vat694848

vat694848 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:53:10 +0000

PTSD has made McCain the leader he is today, says Cindy? Coming from a drug addict beer distributor, I cling too her every word, turn around Cindy and take it like a man.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:44:10 +0000

There are other horrors of war — and I can’t imagine a training program that would render a soldier immune from being affected by all of them.

I would submit that the carnage of combat, watching your buddies get blown to hell, trying to patch up a sucking chest wound with your bandana, shit like that might get you some PTSD.

By: ScrewBush

ScrewBush — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:06:16 +0000

Cindy McCain, shame on you for your stupidity or your bravado or what ever it was that caused those words to leave your mouth. You owe a generation of warriors a true heartfelt and public apology. You owe the children, siblings, and parents or those warriors an apology.

Please don’t tell me you stand by what you said.

By: dasm

dasm — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:05:55 +0000

Just when you think no one could be more ignorant than Palin….

By: lurker

lurker — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:55:55 +0000

misshusseinmolly Says
I agree i’m not supporting her for saying that his training
would prevent him suffering from PTSD but that he had training
for how to deal with being a POW.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:43:55 +0000

lurker Says
October 9th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

I hate to be the joy-kill here, but she has a point.
I’m not sure when it was started but, all aircrew members go through “SERE” school to learn how to deal with being captured.
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And that’s training that everybody who will be serving in a combat zone should receive. However, I believe there are many cases of PTSD that aren’t caused by being captured. There are other horrors of war — and I can’t imagine a training program that would render a soldier immune from being affected by all of them.

By: ThomInMaine

ThomInMaine — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:42:47 +0000

Can I have a B please?
Next contestant…

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:41:52 +0000

misshusseinmolly Says:

And there goes the last of the veteran support for McCain. Well, there may be a few who realize these are the ravings of a clueless bubblehead and won’t hold it against John himself.

Vote Vets for Freedom are like Jews for Jesus to the Republicans.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:39:01 +0000

And there goes the last of the veteran support for McCain. Well, there may be a few who realize these are the ravings of a clueless bubblehead and won’t hold it against John himself.

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:37:45 +0000

Thom

Nah, it’s a C. Though, we can use that K…since a K in baseball is an abbreviation for a strikeout. And man, it took less than three pitches for Cindy to go down in flames with that zinger!

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:36:03 +0000

satirev Says
October 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Can you imagine have a drug addict as a First Lady?? That really creeps me out….ew……
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And that’s pretty much what the Republicans said at the prospect of Kitty Dukakis (an alcoholic) being First Lady in 1988. It seems to be just fine when it’s one of their own, though…

Personally, I don’t think that alone should be a deal breaker. When Betty Ford was First Lady, she was both alcoholic and addicted to prescription drugs. And she still managed to be an inspiring First Lady (and an even more inspiring ex-First Lady). It’s dumb remarks like this that pretty much remove Cindy McCain from Betty Ford’s league.