Rockefeller cares more than McCain?
April 8, 2008
Senator Jay Rockefeller criticized John McCain for his actions in Vietnam suggesting,
“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? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues,”
Of course the great-grandson of the oil tycoon, Jay hasn’t had to work a day in his life so I am not so sure he has much experience ‘on the ground’ (I don’t think the Peace Corp compares to Vietnam). When was the last time Mr. Rockefeller sacrificed anything? As I recall, McCain had quite a bit of firsthand experience on the ground in Vietnam. After being shot down near Hanoi a mob of angry Vietnamese people attacked him crushing his shoulder and bayoneting him, he wasn’t expected to live a week. McCain recovered and was put into solitary confinement for two years. When McCain’s father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater he was offered early release, but instead of taking the offer he told his captors that he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well. After five and a half years McCain was released from captivity. I am no fan of McCain, but I am damn sure he cares about people. He proved that fact when he refused early release. Can Mr. Rockefeller say the same thing?
(picture: McCain being pulled out of Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi and about to become a prisoner of war on October 26, 1967)
