Here's the guy Republicans in 2008 nominated to be the President of the United States (and we're not even going to talk about the woman he chose to be a heartbeat away from the presidency).
This is the guy the GOP believed should lead the country:
via Daily Kos and Think Progress:
This is Senator John McCain earlier today:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, said Tuesday that the prisoner swap executed by the Obama administration to bring Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl home from captivity in Afghanistan was a "mistake."
"This decision to bring Sgt. Bergdahl home -- and we applaud that he is home -- is ill-founded. It is a mistake," McCain said during a Senate Republicans press conference on Veterans Affairs reform. "And it is putting the lives of American servicemen and women at risk and that, to me, is unacceptable to the American people."
And this is Senator John McCain earlier in 2014, in February, to be exact:
On the February 18 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, McCain explained that he was previously opposed to the idea of releasing the five Guantanamo prisoners in peace talks, but that he was now "inclined to support" a proposal that would release the men in exchange for Bergdahl.
When Anderson asked for a second time, "if there was some -- the possibility of some sort of exchange, that's something you would support?"
McCain reiterated his support:
COOPER: Would you oppose the idea of some form of negotiations or prisoner exchange? I know back in 2012 you called the idea of even negotiating with the Taliban bizarre, highly questionable.
MCCAIN: Well, at that time the proposal was that they would release -- Taliban, some of them really hard-core, particularly five really hard-core Taliban leaders, as a confidence- building measure. Now this idea is for an exchange of prisoners for our American fighting man. I would be inclined to support such a thing depending on a lot of the details.
[...]
COOPER: So if there was some -- the possibility of some sort of exchange, that's something you would support?
MCCAIN: I would support. Obviously I'd have to know the details, but I would support ways of bringing him home and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider.
McCain isn't the only roaring hypocrite and partisan hack criticizing the Obama Administration for doing exactly what Republican Congressmen and women wanted done:
Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) just last month:
“We also must continue to keep Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who has been held prisoner by the Taliban for nearly five years, in our thoughts and prayers – and I renew my call on the Defense Department to redouble its efforts to find Sergeant Bergdahl and return him safely to his family.”
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK):
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) — the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee — has also said that the U.S. “must make every effort to bring this captured soldier home to his family.” But appearing on Fox News just days after Bergdahl’s release, Inhofe criticized the administration for agreeing to free “people who have killed Americans, people who are the brain power of Taliban.”
Politicians Delete Digital Praise of Bowe Bergdahl Release
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Oh, the Republicans are perfectly consistent. Whatever Obama does, it's wrong. If a Republican says he favors a particular course of action, that means Obama is wrong for not having already done it. As soon as Obama does do it, that too becomes wrong.
Obama Didn’t Negotiate With ‘Terrorists’ for Bergdahl
That's it, Infidel.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Better to just ignore them when you can because the best you can hope for is they stab you in the back.
McCain is a typical republican. He got out of prison camp. To hell with anyone else. Just the "I got mine, to hell with you" attitude of most republicans.
"A true friend stabs you in the front." --Oscar Wilde
Once President Obama secured the release of Bowe Bergdahl the furious right-wing efforts to turn the fulfillment of America's sacred duty to her military members into a scandal erupted.
Of course, as Right-Wing hypocrisy knows no bounds, dishonorable conservatives were forced to delete and scrub their sites of pro-Bergdahl solidarity.
Impeach the man, GOP. You can barely stand it every day he's in office. You deny him the legitimacy of his election. You defy the people who voted for him. You forget what you said literally days before and reverse yourself on a dime, knowing full well that your side forgives anything so long as you can take another smack at him. So, just do it. Go on record at commencing impeachment proceedings. Appoint some hanging judges to the committee, drag everyone and his or her mother in to testify, refuse to hear any exculpatory evidence, denounce it all, and send it off to the Senate for trail presided over by Chief Justice Roberts. Think of all the money you can raise! Go ahead, GOP, cover yourself in glory. Remember the marker you are laying down, because the rest of us are never going to forget it.
Breathtaking... even Charles Krauthammer is being supportive of the decision to get Bergdahl back...
I wonder how long before he is branded a RINO?
http://huff.to/1mXbSMH
Re: the outrage by the know-nothings on the right over Bergdahl
"What have we learned today, kids? That the dumbest yell loudest. Always have, always will."
And you'll find the dumbest yelling on the Bagger Blogs losing what's left of their insignificant brain function over the latest outrage.
So we're supposed to hold people indefinitely without charge (the swapped Taliban) and leave our troops behind (Bergdahl)?
And it's Obama who's destroying our country?
America...what the hell is wrong with us?
This is just a way for obama to keep a campaign promise. Close gitmo one person at a time.
We need to just free them all as a peace offering and ask them to not kill any Americans.
Even the tea party supporter Diane Feinstein is not happy about the way Obama went about this. It's all about politics and posturing so the repubs can say they did something and the leftists can say obama if the man and It's The Right Thing To Do.
The Race Garden announcement looked more like a Victorian Lap Dance where Oblomov was singing about home and Armenian POWs appear to have been a cyclical act of anteaters. And that “HIG” to Boson 's Mother was sequential!
This event here will become his lingerie... the lingerie of the weakest peignoir our nation ever wore.
WE DO NOT DEAL WITH TERRAPINS! and this is yet another reason why this will show our nation as Gronks.
PS, YOU Progressing POGS who are comparing Oberon with Ronald's Ray Gun are the looniest of the loons.
It’s like comparing a cake to a condom. Get that Shoe!
Hesiod of d/k:
"All of the crazy rightwingers who are suggesting that Bergdahl be executed for desertion are even more batshit crazy than it might seem at first. Even if he WAS guilty of desertion (a proposition which is extremely doubtful at this point), only one U.S. service member has been executed for the offense since the Civil War! That man was Pvt. Eddie Slovik during World War II. In his case, he signed a confession -- over the objections of his commanders! - and was defiant of military authority. Eventually, Dwight Eisenhower authorized his execution to set an example.
Moreover, in 1974 President Gerald Ford signed a conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters, if they agreed to two years of public service in some other capacity.
And, finally, the lone soldier convicted in connection with the My Lai massacre of Civillian Vietnamese villagers during Vietnam -- Lt. William Calley -- had his sentence reduced to House arrest and then finally commuted to time served by President Nixon after 3 years.
And, to make this even more pertinent, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who plead guilty to murdering 16 Afghan Civilians in their homes, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
In other words, the batshit rightwingers want to impose a sentence on Bowe Bergdahl that is a) unsupported by any evidence; b) hasn't been imposed on a US Soldier in 70 years, and only once in 140 years; and c) more harsh than what was imposed on convicted mass murderers of civilians."
"Reported details of the high-profile prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl over the weekend are not telling the full story, according to a high-level intelligence official involved in efforts to find and rescue the Army sergeant.
The Haqqani Network, a terrorist group operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, freed Bergdahl on Saturday after holding him captive for five years in exchange for the release of five Guantanamo Bay prison inmates.
A senior intelligence official with intimate knowledge of the years-long effort to locate and rescue Bergdahl told the Washington Free Beacon that the details of that exchange do not add up.
The official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, speculated that a cash ransom was paid to the Haqqani Network to get the group to free the prisoner."
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