McCain Talks up his POW Experience Again
As I have mentioned before, Senator John McCain will drop the topic of his military service or experience of being held captive by the Vietnamese into any conversation so that he can get the advantage. He was on “This Week” today and talking about health care. I colored the important parts in red.
STEPHANOPOULOS: What’s wrong with government — what’s wrong with government-run health care?
MCCAIN: And we continue to have these debates — what’s wrong with it? Go to Canada. Go to England and you can find out what’s wrong with it. Governments don’t make the right decisions. Families make the right decisions.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the points Mrs. Edwards made in the Wall Street Journal, she said that your whole life, you had government health care. You were the son of a Naval officer, a Naval officer, now a member of Congress. And her point is, why shouldn’t every American be able to get the kind of health care that members of Congress get or members of the military get?
MCCAIN: It’s a cheap shot, but I did have a period of time where I didn’t have very good government health care. I had it from another government. (LAUGHTER) So, look, I know what it’s like in America not to have health care. We know that Americans are hurting there as well. We’ve got to make health care affordable and available. The difference, again, between myself and the Democrats, and with all due respect, Mrs. Edwards, I want the families to make the choices. They want the government to make the choices. That’s a fundamental difference, and we will continue to debate that issue.
It is a skill that you have to watch. McCain is great at it. There is no need to mention that he was a prisoner of war in a conversation about American health care. The point is that he never just answers the question. It isn’t about choice, it’s about accessibility. He has it and we don’t. Why aren’t we good enough for his health care plan? Or is this an elitist thing?
Here’s the video:
