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The Minority Report ^ | 9 April 2008 | .cnI redruM
The most recent display of how true liberals feel towards Americans who serve in the armed forces started with Senator Jay Rockefeller proving that another great industrial family may have truly been spoiled by success and gone utterly to seed. Rockefeller described John McCain’s service as an aviator in Vietnam as follows.
"(McCain) was a fighter pilot who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit."
"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?" Sen. Jay Rockefeller said in an interview published in Tuesday's Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. "He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
This was truly despicable. So bad that McCain’s campaign wasted no time calling Senator Rockefeller on to the carpet to smell the pile he had left there. McCain spokesman and fellow Vietnam POW, Orson Swindle fired back an angry response.
"Had Senator Rockefeller served himself, he would appreciate and understand that most who have been to war emerge with a much deeper concern for humanity than they otherwise might," said the former Marine lieutenant colonel. "If he knew what he was talking about, he would know that John McCain wasn't dropping laser-guided missiles at 35,000 feet in 1967."
Rockefeller’s comment lacked the class that should always accompany a grand fortune such as the Rockefeller estate. He proves that he is yet another stuffed shirt, who inherited the fortune of Croesis, but has discovered that vast sums of money will never pinch-hit for his dignity as a human being. Since Senator Rockefeller supports the Obama Presidential Campaign, Senator McCain called on Obama to repudiate his attack-lackey.
Senator Obama and Senator Rockefeller began their odious walk-back with a pair of thoroughly disingenuous apologies.
Senator Obama has a deep respect for Senator McCain’s service to this country and doesn’t agree with what Senator Rockefeller said,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
Rockefeller’s Senate office released a statement by the senator that said he regretted the comment. “I have deep respect for John McCain’s honorable and noble service to our country. I made an inaccurate and wrong analogy and I have extended my sincere apology to him.
“While we differ a great deal on policy issues, I profoundly respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words.”
Both men were forced into hypocrisy by political expediency. Each had to go through the public dog and pony show and repudiate what Senator Rockefeller and most liberal Democrats sincerely feel about people who serve in the armed forces.