Bud Day also offered some superior advice to Wesley Clark on how best to remove his foot from his mouth:
(1 minute 31 seconds)
Greyhawk has an impressive biography of Bud Day's career that you won't hear on any of the networks any time too soon.
And, Power Line included this heroic story on Col. Bud Day, the recipient of the Medal of Honor and America's most highly decorated veteran:
Karl Rove met up with Col. Day in April and related this story in a subsequent Wall Street Journal column. Day escaped his original detention in North Vietnam, but was recaptured. Upon recapture, the North Vietnamese conveyed a harsh message:What a story!When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."
The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm, and put him in a misshapen cast. This was done so that the arm would heal at "a goofy angle," as Mr. Day explained. Had it done so, he never would have flown again.
But it didn't heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint. Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place.
Years later, Air Force surgeons examined Mr. Day and complimented the treatment he'd gotten from his captors. Mr. Day corrected them. It was Dr. McCain who deserved the credit. Mr. Day went on to fly again.
Democrats are going to have a rough time smearing McCain's military service.
But, that won't keep them from trying.
"Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place"
ReplyDeleteAny idiots out there who still want to insist that there is no qualification gap, no experience gap, no GUT CHECK gap between McCain and Obama?
Well again I don't want anyone to think that I'm getting soft on Sen. McCain's political side (for all its myriad flaws still a better side by far than Obama's) but the idea of having a political hack of an ex-general trying to downplay the incredible heroics of Aviator McCain is truly asinine and beyond bizzare...
ReplyDeleteWhat's really hilarious is how the leftist-libtards are trying to morph, "swift-boating" from exposing the facts to just another form mere poltical attack ads...
All Clark said was that being an ex-POW doesn't qualify anyone for being president.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's correct. That's NOT a qualification to be president.
He never, NOT ONCE, denigrated McCain's service.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your hysteria.
LOL!
Good work, GP. The story at Powerline and Mudville seems to be picking up. I posted the latest update from Powerline at my site.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between McCain and Obama on foreign affairs and matters of national security are light day and night. For all of McCain's views, those on national security are clearly credible, where as Obama has nothing but speeches and an absent resume.
ReplyDeleteNational security credentials and character will hand McCain the Presidency in November. As it should.
ks, don't let the facts get in the way of your spin. LOL
ReplyDeleteWesley Clark is a shill for the prog candidate. His idea of war is dropping bombs on the enemy civilian population from 30,000 feet (think Serbia). Real warrior, that one. BTW, here's what the progs think of Wesley.
So McCain's military service doesn't qualify him to be President??
ReplyDeleteAnd Obama's qualifications are ????? besides NONE ????
Wesley Clark is a disgrace to the uniform he wore.
So, KS, you wouldn't object if I said that being an affirmative action admit to Harvard Law School and an affirmative action appointee to the editorship of the Harvard Law Review doesn't qualify anyone to be president?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link mike. The author swept over the basic issue of the Left: they are anti-rational. They wish only to be told what to think and say, so when someone says: "Oh look, Clark is a military guy who became a Democrat!" they simply accept that Clark must have made a reasoned choice based on his revulsion of the Right. As the author points out, Clark is simply a Keystone Kop who like Kerry and Obama will say or do anything to get his pus on the TV.
ReplyDeletedemocrats are the scum of the Earth, they continue to keep people in poverty by not pushing education but freebies and making people feel sorry for themselves because of the skin color they are.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't anyone have enough sense to see that they are not about substance but are more concerned about themselves only.
Wesley Clark is such a great patriot. He got his star after he loaned the ATF and the FBI military equipment to overrun the Branch Davidian compound. Please prove me wrong, look it up.
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