Author Topic: Could Chuck Norris be right??? (Read 504 times)

SIG220 · « **on:** January 21, 2008, 10:28:01 PM »

Is Chuck Norris right about John McCain being too old to be running for President?

If he was to be elected, he would be 72 1/2 years old when he would start his Presidency. In comparison, Chuck Norris would only be be 68 if he was running now and then won the election.

Is being President of the United States just too hard for a man that age? Also in comparison, Reagan was just a couple of weeks less than 69 years old when he started office.

I voted for McCain back in 2000, even though Bush's nomination was already assured by then. I even sent him $200 early in his campaign.

But I really cannot vote for him now, at his present age. He has also flip flopped too much recently on key issues, for my taste.

If only McCain had been elected back in 2000, instead of Bush. I wonder how history might have turned out different??

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eagl · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2008, 10:31:26 PM »

Maybe we would have outsourced secret CIA interrogations to Hanoi instead of to Gitmo and other locations...

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2008, 11:26:04 PM »

Fool! Chuck Norris is always right.

SIG220 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2008, 01:41:37 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
Maybe we would have outsourced secret CIA interrogations to Hanoi instead of to Gitmo and other locations...

Since McCain was himself tortured by the North Vietnamese, it appears that he has very strong feelings against doing anything at all like torture to prisoners.

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Raptor · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2008, 01:45:00 AM »

Some people age quicker than others. Personally Fred Thompson strikes me as being 90.

sunfan1121 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:34:00 AM »

Look at J-Mac's mom shes like 90 and she is a verry well spoken person.

bustr · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2008, 03:31:21 AM »

My father came from a rural alabama area and was very conservitive and hard arsed. In his 60's he got a pace maker and lost his hard earn commercial multie engine ratings. In his 70's the man I knew as a no nonsense conservitive changed over night to a live and let live approach at life as long as no one got hurt. He stopped appreciating the concervitive priciples that he raised me by and just wanted everyone to get along. You cannot make hard harsh decisions after your world view changes that drasticly.

McCain did not come home who he was before he went to vietnam the last time. The most unbeleivable things happened to him at the hands of the NVA. That is a down side for some who go to war. But untill war is never engaged in ever again, he cannot make the rest of us pay for his Post Tramatic Shock issues with protecting our country from terrorism. If he can't make the hard decisions, Ben Lauden will galdly exploit that weekness.

It's disingenuous on his part to think conservitives beleive he is a conservitive. The MSM wants republicans to vote for him or Huckabee. Either one in the White House will be a win for the democrats if they can't get Obama or Billery through the door. McCain just wants everyone to get along because he has personal problems from a war that ended 30 years ago. That in itself should disqualify him to lead troops or our nations militairy in this time of real danger to amercian citizens.

WWhiskey · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2008, 11:34:58 AM »

John McCain was and is a good man and a good politition, that said his experiance in the military does not make him a better candidate for pres. than any other! yes he was a prisoner of war and that might change his judgement toward other P.O.W.'s but the wars we fight aren't fought in those camps, info from them is important, but that is not where they are won or lost! in this country, wars are won and lost in the media, and his P.O.W. experiance gives that media the advantage !(if you beleive that the media is bias)
i wonder if the comparison can be made that P.O.W.'s and downed air men who escaped during WW2 were not allowed to return to combat, i know that the main reason was to prevent the loss of info about freindly forces behind enemy lines if they were captured again, but also because of the intense pain and suffering to them would cloud there judgement in combat itself?

cav58d · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2008, 11:44:45 AM »

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Originally posted by bustr
McCain just wants everyone to get along

Is the idea of everyone getting along that bad???? If you had the option, what would you take? Would you prefer to be at war?

By the way, I agree with your father...Live and let live...

"My choice is what i chose to do;
and if I'm causin no harm,
it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you chose to be;
and if your causin to harm, then your alright with me."

good old ben harper...

Yeager · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2008, 01:25:14 PM »

I would rather have an old president who has been in war directly, seen its horrors, endured toture and surived and returned home as a free man than some young punk lawyer with no experience beyond being a run of the mill politician.

McCain is the best candidate running on either side.

As far as his age is concerned I dont care. He could go on to be 90 and still have it all happening or he could slip and fall and go the way of an invalid....so what. As long as he has a strong Vice President I dont care about his age.

john9001 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2008, 01:33:17 PM »

Yeager, you are thinking with your emotions.

I'm not for or against McCain, but there is more to being a president than being shot down and captured.

cav58d · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2008, 01:41:41 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
Yeager, you are thinking with your emotions.

I'm not for or against McCain, but there is more to being a president than being shot down and captured.

There definately is a lot more to being President...But is the decision to send American's to war, and to potentially die the greatest decision a President will have to make? Sure they are important, but the economy, immigrations, taxes and spending sure seem trivialized when you are talking about the lives of these people.

I for one would take the man who has seen the horrors of war first hand, over the one who has read about it in books anyday.

FrodeMk3 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:03:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
I would rather have an old president who has been in war directly, seen its horrors, endured toture and surived and returned home as a free man than some young punk lawyer with no experience beyond being a run of the mill politician.

McCain is the best candidate running on either side.

As far as his age is concerned I dont care. He could go on to be 90 and still have it all happening or he could slip and fall and go the way of an invalid....so what. As long as he has a strong Vice President I dont care about his age.

Do you guys' remember Randy "Duke" Cunningham?

He and his back-seater, Willie Driscoll, were the highest scoring F4 Phantom team in the Vietnam war, having 5 confirmed kills' on NVAF Mig's.

He holds' the Navy cross, 2 silver stars, and the purple heart. He has won the Air Medal fifteen (15!) times.

After his Naval service ended in 1987, he stayed in San Diego. He was elected to the House of Representatives, from the 50th district, in 1990.

Instead of going with a wall of words, I'm just gonna jump straight to the end of the story; In 2005 he plead guilty to taking 2.4 million in bribes, and also to conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. He is now serving 8 years' in Tuscon.

Vote for McCain as to how you feel he can do the job he's running for now, Not on what he's done in the past. Look at what his platform is, and what he intends' to do with it.

SteveBailey · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:11:08 PM »

McCain is a RINO who has taken up positions to allow himself to be a viable Presidential candidate(in his view). The more time passes, the more left he swings. He should just be honest with the public and switch his party affiliation to Democrat.

Charon · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2008, 03:03:21 PM »

Nothing appeals to me from Rudy McRomnabee.

I want a truly conservative candidate that is going to cut spending, hinder (seriously) illegal immigration and reevaluate our current managed trade that passes for globalization.

But, that candidate has long odds.

Charon