{"id":952,"date":"2008-06-19T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=952"},"modified":"2008-06-19T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:48:35","slug":"john-mccain-i-didnt-really-love-america-until","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"John McCain: I Didn&#8217;t Really Love America Until&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Abrams has uncovered a video of John McCain saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;I really didn&#8217;t love America until I was deprived of her company.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has the potential to upend this campaign. Given the criticism of Michelle Obama&#8217;s remarks about pride, how can the right still press the patriotism of the Democratic candidate&#8217;s wife when the Republican candidate himself has made remarks that are arguably much worse?<\/p>\n<p>The quote of McCain came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/john_mccains_full_hour_on_hann.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with Sean Hannity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hannity:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>McCain:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn&#8217;t love America until I was deprived of her company, but probably the most important thing about it, Sean, is that I was privileged to have the opportunity to serve in the company of heroes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is anyone surprised that Hannity didn&#8217;t challenge McCain&#8217;s statement?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what McCain meant to say in these comments. What matters is that he and his surrogates have to cease their despicable slander of Michelle Obama&#8217;s patriotism. After all, If Cindy McCain can get away with saying, <em>&#8220;All I know is that I have always been proud of my country,&#8221;<\/em> can&#8217;t Mrs. Obama just as rightly say, <em>&#8220;All I know is that I have never stolen from a charity to satisfy my drug habit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This crap has to stop. And if there is a silver lining to the new McCain dialog, it is that this might lead to the end of these childish attacks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/25274602#25274602\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Abrams has uncovered a video of John McCain saying&#8230; &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t love America until I was deprived of her company.&#8221; This has the potential to upend this campaign. Given the criticism of Michelle Obama&#8217;s remarks about pride, how can the right still press the patriotism of the Democratic candidate&#8217;s wife when the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[183,122,103,242,129],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-dan-abrams","tag-john-mccain","tag-michelle-obama","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25802,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25802","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":0},"title":"Who Hates America? 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