At 5:29 PM -0500 10/10/08, richardsan san said: >On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Michael Luscombe
>Not everyone who talks to a communist or communist sympathizer >becomes a communist. If that were the case, wouldn't John McCain want >to run the country like Vietnam? Some sensible characterization of >those meetings is in order. Plenty of Republicans worked with Bill >Ayers as well. > > mccain has at least a 5 year history of communicating with communists. >didn't he give them more than just name,rank and serial number? I was on a work crew with a Nam vet this week, and got an earful over lunch one afternoon when someone made a joking comment about the election. Seems the vet was on the Forrestal when the missile went off and killed 134 crewmen, and a lot of his fellow survivors were convinced that McCain was responsible for that incident - I didn't understand all of what he said since he became quite passionate while reliving the scene, and began speaking in military acronyms. Something about fooling around with afterburners and a flareout touching off the missile. This vet closed his rant with an assurance that he was also certain that McCain's plane was fragged out of the sky by his peers who were tired of his risky behavior. I'd been listening with shock probably showing on my face, and he turned to me and said "Fragged! Do you know what that means, to be fragged? It means your own side thinks you don't deserve to live!" The rest of us simply listened, dumb-founded. That's the first I've heard of any of that, but the guy was extremely serious and very very angry, kept referring to McCain as "Songbird." Got up and stormed off after he finished talking, and the rest of the crew agreed to avoid talking about politics around him. I keep meaning to ask a pilot about this, since I don't understand how the missile could have been set off like that in the first place. -- Mugsy<http://www.macgeekofdogtown.com>"It's never too late to get a little older" - Robbie Kinter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
