DAMN! This Story Gets Better By The Minute! A SMOKING GUN ("Cross-In-The-Dirt")

[berni_mccoy]

As pointed out here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6656140&mesg_id=6656166

A commenter noticed that McCain has *never* mentioned Solzhenitsyn's experience in the context of his own. Why?

We know for a fact that McCain was a huge fan of Solzhenitsyn and that he publicly announced this in a NY Sun article. We know for a fact, by McCain's own words, that he was well versed in Solzhenitsyn's work.

So, with such an incredible story of his, especially in the context of a campaign centering on his POW experience being his central qualifying attribute, why hasn't McCain ever mentioned Solzhenitsyn's experience.

As a Christian and POW story, this would create an incredible bond between all Christians and war prisoners. This would be incredible if two soldiers from two different wars could share such a spiritual experience. We know McCain is not dumb and neither are his campaign staff, who surely would have vetted this story.

Anyone with half a brain would know to bring these stories up together. But he hasn't... why? The only reasonable answer is that McCain has stolen Solzhenitsyn's story to use for political gain.

And if you don't think McCain would do that, watch this video: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x170992

[patrice]

1. Another blog reader I know says the timeline doesn't work out either.

Can't check it myself, right now.

[Mabus]

2. Shades of Reagan

It appears that McCain is suffering from the same fantasy-reality distortions that Reagan used to suffer from during his presidency.

(Reagan) once told the story of a brave WWII bomber commander who stayed behind with an injured subordinate and went down with the plane, noting that this commander was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News checked and found no such event had occurred -- except in a 1944 movie. In 1985, Reagan quipped, "I've been told that in the Russian language there isn't even a word for freedom." There is; it's svoboda. In the 1987 book, Reagan's America: Innocents at Home, Gary Wills notes that on two occasions, Reagan told visitors to the White House that when he was in the military he had filmed the Nazi concentration camps. That was false. He had served in Los Angeles, where he had made training films.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/18943/

I guess this means that McCain really is a Reagan Republican. He takes stories from other people and thinks they are true.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Please Digg the Story Here:

http://digg.com/politics/HUGE_Smoking_Gun_in_McCain_s_Made_Up_Cross_In_The_Dirt_Story

[dkf]

4. K&R.

Yup, I think this is significant indeed.

[Hope And Change]

5. K & R!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. I'm enjoying watching this unfold!!!

[chat_noir]

7. Balloon Juice: McCain is a Solzhenitsyn fan

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11080

follow the link to: http://www.nysun.com/opinion/solzhenitsyn-at-work/83117/

Solzhenitsyn at Work

By JOHN McCAIN | August 4, 2008

This excerpt is drawn from "Hard Call: The Art of Great Decisions," (Twelve), which Senator McCain coauthored with Mark Salter. It is reprinted with permission of the book's publisher.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Like Reagan recounted war stories, McCone thinks this dramatic war story happened to him.

Just make shit up.

[Whisp]

12. This is McCain's Tuzla.

just make shit up.
and laugh about it when you get caught.
and all is fine.

[populistdriven]

9. most journalists have 51% of their brain inside a black box controlled by the corp MSM

[berni_mccoy]

10. Yes, it's sad that you are correct.

[Bucky]

11. Thank goodness McCain isn't Hindu. Can you imagine drawing a mandala in sand?

Sheesh, what a headache.

[eleny]

13. I hope it's covered on Countdown

You know how Keith hops on stuff like this to get it from print/inet to tv.

[mcg]

14. Straight from the Straight Lie Express,

He'll say anything, any kind of lie without hesitation, and with a straight face.