The obvious problem eludes you, Dafydd?!? If the President of the United States cannot lift his arms above his head, how in the WORLD is he going to signal surrender?

Maybe if McCain promised to carry around a white flag, the LA Times would consider that an acceptable workaround...

It's obvious the idiots in the liberal Democrat media forgot about one of their own, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who led this country during World War II from a wheelchair.

The liberal democrats forget and remember whatever pushes their agenda. And consistency is not their forte. It is amazing to me that there are so many democrats in this country. Do they all have a death wish? Do they even know the issues? Or is it because daddy and granddaddy voted democrat? To even bring this question about McCain's injuries up is ridiculous. Think about how much fun they made of Bush's exercise regimen.

The Liberals will do this until McCain blows up in public.

[George] Washington had thought to quell a potential mutiny among those officers — who were upset at rumors that the Congress would not make good its promises of pay — by reading them a letter he'd received from a Congressman detailing the young country's financial woes. A few halting sentences in, he stopped abruptly, and he reached into his pocket to remove a pair of eyeglasses.

Noting their surprise — Washington was a man who was particular about his appearance, and few of them had known that he ever wore reading glasses — he asked this of them: "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles? For I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country."

Seems like McCain is in good company.

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Things have changed since FDR's time. As we all know, the President these days is sometimes required to be an Action Hero. I mean, how can McCain possibly hope to take his F-18 up and single-handedly defeat the alien armada at his age and with his physical limitations?

Hmmm. The LAT and the rest of the American media covered up FDR's severe disability even as they deified him. Now with McCain's disapbility completely and transparently discolosed, the LAT et al, seeks to cliam mcCain is unqualified.
What low lifes.

Well he won't be able to throw the first baseball to open a game...that seems to have become an important function of the POTUS. But we will be spared various football throwing pho-ops.

Also assuming he can't play golf, how's the POTUS supposed to function properly without golf???

We may need to re-evaluate McCain's fitness for POTUS.

Davod:

The Liberals will do this until McCain blows up in public.

Actually, blowing up in public wouldn't necessarily hurt McCain's electoral chances; it all depends what he blew up about. If it were something that enrages ordinary Americans too -- say, some asinine reporter asking some tendentious question that dishonors the American military, or America itself -- then I think the voter response, except among hard-core Democrats, would be "right on, man!"

That sort of thing pisses off the voter; and rarely do people object when a leader shouts about exactly what the voter wants to shout about but feels disempowered to do so.

Phil g.:

Well he won't be able to throw the first baseball to open a game...that seems to have become an important function of the POTUS.

I know you were joking, but actually that brings up a unique photo-op. Imagine the start of the baseball season, first game. President McCain comes out and says a few words about how wonderful is America's pastime, how it's a metaphore for America itself (teamwork, competition, fair play, never giving up).

Then he says, "I know it's traditional for the president to throw out the first pitch. But I hope you'll excuse me in this circumstance." [Smiles a bit slyly, raises his arms as high as he can.] Instead, I've brought along a pal to help me out."

Then out comes some recently returned and reasonably well known veteran of the Iraq war, one who is highly decorated and not known for any overt Republican partisanship... Pete Hegseth, Executive Director of Vets for Freedom and a very likely congressional candidate at some future point. McCain announces him and the name of his group, quoting from their mission statement:

Vets for Freedom is a nonpartisan organization established by combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [whose] mission is to educate the American public about the importance of achieving [victory] in these conflicts by applying [their] first-hand knowledge to issues of American strategy and tactics in Iraq.

Hegseth tosses out the first pitch, then he and McCain stand arm in arm, waving to the crowd.

Furious Democrats later say... what?

Dafydd

Furious Democrats will complain anyway. They complained when Bush flew a jet onto a carrier, and they're complaining because McCain can't. As long as the president doesn't have a D after his name, it doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do, Democrats won't like it. And that is the definition of a partisan.

Socratease - that sums it up rather well.
But I do know this: Everytime a dhimmie slinks out from under a rock and tosses that idea out at all, it costs them votes. It gains them none.
And the dhimmies pretending that it is not them because it is a dhimmie member of the media doing it matters not at all. It still ticks reasonable people off, insults them, and drives them towards McCain.
So I hope they keep it up.

Think for a moment about ..

FDR

"Actually, blowing up in public wouldn't necessarily hurt McCain's electoral chances; it all depends what he blew up about"

Dafydd:

I agree with your comment up to a point. You need the MSM with you when this happens and he will not have this.

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