Comments on: Gloria Steinem Says McCain’s POW Experience Over-Rated

By: KJL

KJL — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:44:36 +0000

I think there is so much anger in people and we need to focus on love instead and with that said I think you have missed the point of what Gloria Steinem was saying.

She wasn’t mocking being a POW. She was questioning McCain’s politics and ability to be President of this country. It takes more than just “grave suffering” to be the ruler of the free world.

By: Swift Boat (Vietnam Edition): Vietnam Jailer Accuses John McCain of Lying About Torture in the Hanoi Hilton « JONATHAN TURLEY

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:16:57 +0000

[...] McCain has written about his brutal treatment at the prison — a record that has rightly made him a hero with everyone except Gloria Steinem. [...]

By: chiefUSN

chiefUSN — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:04:10 +0000

It sadens me deeply to hear anyone dismiss someones pain and missery endoured while in service, it inrages me when someone who has no right too does it. I was crippled and ingested massive quantites of benzine, which has caused kidney cancer and a myrid of other medical concers during my 18 yrs of service and suffer every day sometimes wishing I would go to sleep and never wake up and im only 39!!! Does Mr high and mighty hate us all? was it all for nothing? does anyone even care anymore? at what point do we deserve respect? or do we at all?

By: chiefUSN

chiefUSN — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:47:53 +0000

When I see my dead friends again I will make sure to tell the Ms Steinem didn’t approve of their sacrifice

By: chiefUSN

chiefUSN — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:45:30 +0000

Soooo this woman needs to jump off a high cliff head first and while plumiting towards earth shoot herself in the face, she has no right morraly to “go there” this crosses the line way to far if you still listen to this womans babbel and take her serious you should probably jump with her and save us all from the crap spewing from your faces. she pisses and moans about sexism? than does it herself towards men? hey if women want to killed in combat thats fine and dandy with me knock yourself out just do it in the next foxhole (the idea is to make the enemy die for his country not visa versa!!) AND PLEASE TAKE THIS WRETCHED WITCH WITH YOU!!!

You can hate us and mock our sacrifices, we didnt make them for you anyway!! respectfully, U.S military past, present and future…..

By: Frank for Jill

Frank for Jill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:13:49 +0000

I would like to add something to my statement above. It concerns this entry and the one prior. I recommend the movie: Persepolis. It is a searing look at how things can go terribly wrong when people revolt against oppression.

If we want to end oppression we can’t keep the one that benefits us while railing against the one that harms us. Either we oppose the oppression and mistreatment of everyone or we will free no one, not even ourselves.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:11:43 +0000

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:25:38 +0000

I am truly disheartened by Ms. Steinem’s words. Torture is a defining issue in this country: speaking to the heart of who we are as a people. John McCain’s experience was horrible.

Given his experience I was appalled when McCain renounced his repudiation of torture and I am appalled by Steinem’s dismissal of the cruelty he and all victims of torture suffer.

A feminist in Toledo.