SOUNDBITES — “In his State of the Union address, President Obama asked Congress to repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. I am immensely proud of, and thankful for, every American who wears the uniform of our country, especially at a time of war, and I believe it would be a mistake to repeal the policy. This successful policy has been in effect for over fifteen years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels. We have the best trained, best equipped, and most professional force in the history of our country, and the men and women in uniform are performing heroically in two wars. At a time when our Armed Forces are fighting and sacrificing on the battlefield, now is not the time to abandon the policy.” —John McCain, repeating his stance on DADT but promising no real plan to secure his position, just like the president
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“This successful policy has been in effect for over fifteen years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels”
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Ozymandias
“I am immensely proud of, and thankful for, every American who wears the uniform of our country, especially at a time of war, and I believe it would be a mistake to repeal the policy.”
Right, you’re so proud of our American service men and women that you’ll support a policy that discriminates, belittles and forces a sizable minority to lie, and slams them into the closet. Oh sure, makes perfect sense to me… loser.
MaxH
Successful? Successful in kicking out over twelve thousand servicemembers, maybe.
Jesus, I’m always ashamed when my Senator speaks.
JoeB
Whatever, old man.
Lukas P.
McCain probably faced a whole bucket of $hIt from wife Cindy and daughter Megster, but I’m failing to see his point. Is he agreeing with Bill Clinton on the DADT compromise? [you know that item that will stain his glowing record in history among LGBs?]
Yeesh. What possible political advantage does the DOD gain from firing qualified GLB linguists, medical personnel, trainers, troop leader and every military rank? How can any yea-rah-proWar military supporter possibly see this as a moral or practical WIN for the US?
Fitz
It’s cruel to post the ramblings of a geri-psych patient.
Mike
Because he had to grab a headline after Cindy’s NOH8 move.
CHIP1218
Mr. McCain…
Learn something about family before you talk about my family!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
jason
No, it hasn’t been successful, Mr McCain. It has resulted in the discharging of able and talented men and women, such as those in the Arabic translation service. It has weakened our war on terror, Mr McCain.
REBELComx
Okay, who took the doddering old fool’s straight jacket and muzzle off?
terrwill
He’s just cranky today, he put his depends on backwards again……. : P
clairey
I bet he’ll be sleeping on the couch and eating food with too much salt for a while…if that’s not the case already.
Brian NJ
Dumping trained veterans on the street after years of service and hard work is a success?
McCain has disgraced his status as a former soldier with those comments.
Treating our soldiers like human refuse is the most unsuccessful thing the military can do to a soldier. Cindy ought to take that silver tape and wrap it around his neck.
Soldiers may have actually died on the battlefield because their buddies have been tossed because they were gay. Ask one of those dead soldiers how they feel about the policy, you old, sick, worthless fuck.
terrwill
And we have such an excess of arabic speaking linguistic specialists, (actually we have a chronic shortage) that they are expelling the Gay ones!! One of the most difficult, time intensive dialects to become fluent in which kinda sorta is important being that most of our ops are in countries whom speak that dialects………
Republican
@terrwill:
Yup, exactly. McCain is a shortsighted idiot.
Kieran
But I thought Episcopalians like John MacAin were supposed to be tolerant of gays? Lol.
1EqualityUSA
They could tap into this source for an endless supply of natural gas
Same Crap
Shouldn’ve voted for McCain/Palin. The old man is better than Obama on gay rights.
Navy Vet
Let’s not forget the big Navy cover-up of McCain’s fraternization with a junior (female) officer when he was stationed in Jacksonville, Florida. Further, it took place while he was still married to wife #1. McCain’s fat ass should have been booted out of the Navy for that.
Peter
And of all those service people that McCain is so proud of , are 66,000 Lesbian and Gay personnel. Guess he is NOT really so proud of them all.
Sacramento
John McCain can kiss the fattest part of my ass!
schlukitz
Whatta putz John McPain is.
Nick
Yeah….successful. Not only in ruining gay & lesbian military careers but in pouring all their tax-payer funded training down the drain. Example: it takes about 2 million dollars plus to train an Air Force pilot.
San Francisco Treat
I just love that he prefaces his bullshit with “I am immensely proud of, and thankful for, every American who wears the uniform” and goes on to conclude that he’s not particularly “proud of” or “thankful for” the gay Americans who wear the uniform and that he’s fine if they just get drummed out.
Remember this quote, “I still believe the fundamentals of our economy our strong!” Yeah that was about a year into this recession. lol dumbass.