McCain's "Cross in the Dirt" story stolen from Solzhenitsyn »

Posted By ameliog 1 year, 2 months ago in News

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It just sounded so fake and so contrived, so I did a little research about it. Someone on here said it sounded like a scene from Ben-Hur, so I did a google search about Ben-Hur and cross in the sand and such. No dice. But I searched around a little bit more and here is what I found. A story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn from his times in the Soviet Gulags.

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    fsev411 year, 2 months ago

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    Thanks Ameliog, great find. Lets get it up to the front page and see what AG and the group have to say.

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    smithichie1 year, 2 months ago

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    Wow, this could prove devastating if true.
    At least one of McCain's captors have come forward, where is this Christian guard who supposedly gave McCain such strength? I would think McCain would have perhaps sought such an individual out on one of his trips to Vietnam as a Senator. If McCain's campaign can find former captors willing to vote for McCain, surely finding this Christian guard can be done.

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    ameliog1 year, 2 months ago

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    I'm not sure if he lifted this from Solzhenitsyn when he told his inspirational story at the Saddleback Forum last night. The article suggests this could be the case, but at this point it's still just a matter of conjecture. At the time he said it, something sounded very familiar about the tale, as though McCain was copying and pasting the answer. His response to the question of who he would seek advice from had a similar feel.

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    Searchbeam1 year, 2 months ago

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    Telling fake stories, lying and cheating is nothing new to McPain! He has done this on a steady diet.

    His mindset is still in the cold war period when there were no instant media, and reporters showed a degree of reverence to this guy. Those days of intellectually lazy journalists may be coming to an end. The fittest will survive, and if MSM journalists have to survive in intensely competitive world, they will have to roll up their sleeves and start digging deep and dumping deference for some so-called "straight talkers".

    McPain has shown his ability to lie on several occasions - especially the one about him supporting Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday!

    Those of us who have a long memory remember his stances very well.

    His mea culpa about his moral failure about his first marriage was a classic McPain moment!

    As fake as a three dollar bill!

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    ADAGUY1 year, 2 months ago

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    Once again he has been caught in the middle of a lie, and did you notice that AG, TimLoftis, and the rest of the gang are nowhere to be found?

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    idov1 year, 2 months ago

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    How come we are not seeing a page reference for the Gulag? There's more than one volume.

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      quackpot1 year, 2 months ago

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      Strike 1:
      --Sued for copyright infringement over unauthorized use of Jackson Browne Song.

      Strike 2:
      --This use of Solzhenitsyn story as if it were his own.

      Three strikes you are out???

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      AntiNeoCon1 year, 2 months ago

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      Yeah, McLame's down in florida now quacking his american hero bs at the VFW. I wish he would attend our VFW meeting so he could see some real heros. He sure knows how to play to the "bleeding hearts" doesn't he. If he wants us to forget his unfaithfulness that happened long time ago, then we should probably forget all his BS war stories too.

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      joeeddie1 year, 2 months ago

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      Didn't Obama's crazy uncle draw a cross in the dirt when he helped liberate Auschwitz?

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      AOL-my-crater1 year, 2 months ago

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      That is a quote from a "Loving god" tales by Chuck Colson, firstly published in 1983. MC not guilty.

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        Hobe1 year, 2 months ago

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        spkguy, in all do resp, 40 thousand friends?? I Think Not....

        Sounds like you may be in need of some serious mental health examinations, just like the War monger Nut Case John McCain....

        Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran????? Will be in Iraq for 100 years, these are Jonh McCain's WORDS... McCain a 26 year corrupt politician is not fit to lead anything considering mental outlook and age. This NUt should not be able to send American Men and Women into a sencless WAR....

        Vote McCain OUT OF Office and help America.... however spkguy if you want to follow this NUT, have a glass of Koolaid and follow the NUTS....

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        Bradgrp1 year, 2 months ago

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        This just shows how desparate this man is. There is simply no way that such a coincidence could happen without Mccain mentioniing that it also happens to Solzhenitsyn. I've always said that "MCCAIN TRIES TO HOLD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HOSTAGE WITH HIS POW STATUS." A person who is truly proud of their military service does not wear it on their sleeves. Like myself, proud veterans put their service away and celebrate it when its appropriate or display it only when asked to do so. We don't answer questions about economics by referring to our military service. That's asinine!! And Mccoo-coo-cain shouldn't be doing it either. Proud veterans like myself, are not beholden to Mccains BS about his military service. His POW time was just his the luck of the draw. That's how it is and that's all it is. He needs to stop lying about it and stop using it to brandish like a loaded weapon. Its unpatriotic and dishonorable.

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          cloud151 year, 2 months ago

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          I don't know....I would think that more than one person throughout history has drawn a cross in the dirt....

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            not2needy1 year, 2 months ago

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            When will any of us Libbies learn!! Will we never get it through our thick heads that anything the cons do is God like? They have the patent on Christianity, and any wrong doing is immediately forgiven, because as soon as they GET CAUGHT, they ask for God's forgiveness. Funny thing though.... they don't feel the need to ask for said forgiveness, until they are caught! hmmm

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              antibrainwasher1 year, 2 months ago

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              Technically speaking, even a large Obama victory would not be a realignment. Realignments are moments when there are broad shifts in the electorate, and in 2008 there will be no significant shifts in the partisan voter preference of any demographic group. Important swing groups such as white Catholics, suburban women, Latinos, seculars, Independents and working-class whites are not likely to demonstrate any large, sudden or long-term shifts in allegiance from one party to the other. Instead, an Obama victory would simultaneously be comeuppance to a forty-year-old conservative strategy of scapegoating minorities and the realization of long-term demographic trends that finally allow those minorities collectively to achieve majority status. Relative to his national levels of support, Obama will receive pretty much the same percentage of support from virtually all demographic groups that previous, defeated Democratic nominees such as Michael Dukakis and John Kerry received. The difference will be that, in 2008, those groups will be large enough to win a national election

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