From Politico:

“I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life,” McCain said. “I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it’s like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation. Cindy’s father, who barely finished high school, went off and distinguished himself in World War II in a B-17 and came back with practically nothing and realized the American dream, and I am proud and grateful for that, and I think he is a role model to many young Americans who serve in the military and come back and succeed.

McCain seems to be saying that the American people do not have the right to ask any questions of Johim, about any topic, because he was a POW. Just as interesting, McCain himself is now playing the POW card, something the media routinely claimed he was loathe to do.

Politico and TIME have warned that McCain is entering risky territory by so over-using his former POW status to deflect any and all discussion of any topic, even those topics totally unrelated to his POW experience. How McCain’s former POW status is related to the fact that he can’t remember how many homes he owns, how his wife’s father being a Vet somehow exonerates McCain from the hypocrisy of accusing Obama of being an elitist when McCain’s the far richer of the two, remains a mystery. What is not a mystery is the fact that McCain will continue to inject his former POW status to deflect questions about any topic. It remains to be seen if Americans accept this tactic, or reject it.

This video, that we posted earlier, is an example of some of the backlash that may be building:

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