Does Section III of the 14th Amendment disqualify McCain?

mammasan

Ledbetter9 wrote:

But if McTraitor is going to use his service - and the fact that he was a POW - as leverage in the campaign, then all bets are off and everyone's free to question his service record. HE is the one making an issue of it.

Kerry made an issue of his service does that give people the right to smear what he did. To criticize his Purple Hearts. I agree that McCain has made an issue about it but the best way to handle that would be to acknowledge his service and sacrifice and follow that up with the fact this his service neither hinders nor increases his qualifications to be President of this country. There is no need to attack the man's status as a POW.

puremagic

slightofjeff wrote:

Does Obama *really* need McCain to be disqualified in order to beat him? Check the polls ... Obama is up ... for now. No need to stoop to something so blatantly ridiculous.

WTF does this person's post have to do with Obama?

To the original poster, this Constitutional amendment does not apply to 'captured' military personnel who are subjected to torture. McCain's capture and subsequent torture during the Vietnam War would not have placed McCain in any compromising position to hold an office of the United States government, including the position of President.

This Constitutional amendment may now have been compromised under the current Patriot Act for today's military and civilian personnel as we have seen through the incarnations at Gitmo.

It_Wasnt_My_Surface

mammasan wrote:

I hated when they pulled this shit with Kerry and I hate it that it's being done to McCain. Both men served honorably and to try to smear that is completely disgusting.

I really heard this somewhere I wasn't making it up.

flywallyfly

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg/2

NeilJam

StrangestTribe27 wrote:

When being asked for names John McCain gave the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers

While campaigning in Pittsburgh earlier this year McCain changed this story and said he gave the names of the Steel Curtain. He'll say anything to get elected.


http://kdka.com/politics/Republican.John.McCain.2.767089.html

http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2008/07/11/mccains-steelers-story-doesnt-add-up/

Piper At The Gates

I am an ardent Obama supporter and I think John Mccain is a liar and a hypocrite. I do not, however think that anything that happened to him as a POW should be used in the campaign. He suffered enough in Hanoi, leave it alone.
Having said that, I do believe that this section of the Constitution may apply to Sarah Palin, as she was involved with a secessionist group while in office.

mammasan

Piper At The Gates wrote:

I am an ardent Obama supporter and I think John Mccain is a liar and a hypocrite. I do not, however think that anything that happened to him as a POW should be used in the campaign. He suffered enough in Hanoi, leave it alone.
Having said that, I do believe that this section of the Constitution may apply to Sarah Palin, as she was involved with a secessionist group while in office.

It was actually her husband. there is no proof, that I know of, that shows that she had any relationship with the secessionist movement.

NeilJam

Piper At The Gates wrote:

I am an ardent Obama supporter and I think John Mccain is a liar and a hypocrite. I do not, however think that anything that happened to him as a POW should be used in the campaign. He suffered enough in Hanoi, leave it alone.

When McCain himself keeps bringing up the time he spent as a POW I think it is fair game.

freindlyfired

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html


While he was busy redacting files and stonewalling transparency he could have offered an amendment up.

I love how just because things are said over and over again it just becomes truth. I see no proof that he was tortured, in fact everything leads me to beleive he rec'd special treatment.
His entire life is a lie.

It doesnt matter bec in the end we will get (like now) what we deserve for sitting on the sidelines watching our country go to shiz.

Smartypants

Democrats should not resort to this.

If you think swiftboating was wrong, please don't spread these kind of rumors around.

puremagic

Piper At The Gates wrote:

Having said that, I do believe that this section of the Constitution may apply to Sarah Palin, as she was involved with a secessionist group while in office.

Sarah and Todd were secessionists and supporters of Alaska right to secession since 1994. This section applies bigtime to Sarah and Todd Palin, along with any changes in the Patriot Act. More so, since she claims she directly negotiating with a foreign country (Canada) to build a pipeline to transport a natural resource that is consider vital to the United States of America's national security interest. A State can not enter into a Trade Agreement with a foreign entity, that is the exclusive duties of the U.S. State Department.

Since her hubby was present at official government meeting as a private citizen, Mr. Todd could be held for treason if it is found that he gave privilege information to BP (technically a foreign company) managers while he was an employee of BP.