Just when you think the Left can't be more vile, they do something, well, more vile. As Mark Hemingway at National Review Online has a post on this disgusting post from the moonbatosphere:
First off, I find it fascinating that John McCain, who is refusing to vote for the GI Bill for our troops because "it's too generous," is himself getting $58,000 a year, tax-free, from the US government for his military service. Had McCain been getting that amount every year since Vietnam, that would total $2,000,000 for the man who isn't into overgenerous government. I just find that interesting.
His staff responded with the classic "he was tortured for his country." Yeah, we get it. The torture card. It's to McCain what 9/11 was to Giuliani's candidacy - the never-ending name-drop. Though what McCain's staff actually said was downright, um, we're being nice to Clinton now, so I won't say Clintonian. Here's the quote:McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. "Tortured for his country -- that is how he acquired his disability," Salter said.
Technically? What does that mean? Usually, it means that under the strict reading of the law, you're covered, but in fact it's kind of a nudge-nudge-wink-wink situation - that's what "technically" means. It's called parsing, which is something you do to "technically" claim something is true, when on its face it really isn't. So is McCain "technically" disabled, and taking $58,000 a year tax free from the government, or is he actually disabled? I would imagine there are other solders who are actually disabled who could use the money. And if he is actually disabled, just how disabled is he?
As Hemingway points out to the idiots who agree with posts like this, John McCain can't lift his arms above his shoulders because he was tortured as a P.O.W. by the Vietcong. That's not "technically" disabled. That's disabled-so-jackasses-on-the-Left-can-try-to-compare-shrapnel-in-the-butt-to-real-torture.
Idiots like this should be ashamed but, somehow, they aren't.
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