McCain belittles Dolores Alfond
February 6, 2008
John McCain’s suicide attempt and his resulting PTSD
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
December 23, 2007
(excerpted)
Members of the two major POW/MIA family organizations know the “real” John McCain and they despise him. They have experienced firsthand his cruel, angry temperament.
In 1996, McCain encountered a group of POW/MIA family members outside a Senate hearing room. The family members were some of the same who worked tirelessly during the Vietnam War to make sure Hanoi released all U.S. POWs – including POW McCain.
McCain immediately began quarreling with the POW/MIA family members, who were eager to question him on the issue of what happened to their loved ones.
Instead showing courtesy and appropriate compassion by answering their questions, the Arizona senator pushed through the group, shoving them out of his way, nearly toppling the wheelchair of POW/MIA mother Jane Duke Gaylor. Her son, Charles Duke, a civilian worker in Vietnam, is among 2,300 American POWs and MIAs still unaccounted for by the communists.
The POW/MIA families, shocked at McCain’s overly aggressive behavior toward Mrs. Gaylor, registered complaints with senate officials.
In an earlier incident involving families of servicemen still MIA, McCain got so angry that he went ballistic.
McCain was advised (Nov. 11, 1992) that Dolores Apodaca Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families (her pilot brother Capt. Victor J. Apodaca is missing in action in North Vietnam), was offering testimony critical of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. He rushed into the hearing room to confront her.
Award winning journalist Sydney Schanberg described the scene. “His face [McCain] angry and his voice very loud, he accused her of making ‘allegations … that are patently and totally false and deceptive.’
“Making a fist, he shook his index finger at her and said she had insulted an emissary to Vietnam sent by President Bush. He said she had insulted other MIA families with her remarks. And then he said, through clenched teeth: ‘And I am sick and tired of you insulting mine and other people’s [patriotism] who happen to have different views than yours.’
“By this time, tears were running down Alfond’s cheeks. She reached into her handbag for a handkerchief. She tried to speak: ‘The family members have been waiting for years — years! And now you’re shutting down.’ He kept interrupting her. She tried to say, through tears, that she had issued no insults. He kept talking over her words. He said she was accusing him and others of ’some conspiracy without proof, and some cover-up.’ She said she was merely seeking ’some answers. That is what I am asking.’ He ripped into her for using the word ‘fiasco.’ She replied: ‘The fiasco was the people that stepped out and said we have written the end, the final chapter to Vietnam.’ ‘No one said that,’ he shouted. ‘No one said what you are saying they said, Ms. Alfond.’ And then, his face flaming pink, he stalked out of the room, to shouts of disfavor from members of the audience.”
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I am a petty man. This much I admit. But, like my predecessor, George W. Bush, I am going to have my way with the US Government, the Constitution, and any other useless piece of pork barrel spending, as I see fit!
As for POW’s, F%$# them! None of them had it as hard as I had it at the Hanoi Hilton!!!
What a sad little man. Mrs. Alfond is just exercising her rights.
Wow, he did get hot under the collar! Poor woman, she could hardly get a word in edgewise and he drove her to tears with his insults, but give her credit, she did rebound. So the committee chairman can clear the chamber if the audience gets upset ( and boos) with McCain walking out, but he has no authority to keep McCain seated to answer questions. How fair is that!
And to think that I might have voted for him as President. Perish the thought! He’s a crazy man and it’s obvious that his soft, calm, reverend like speech pattern is all a put on. He’s one old, scary Presidential candidate. You would think he would have some compassion for other POW’s and families of MIA’s, but he always brings it back to “me, me, me.” What a guy, poor Cindy. No wonder she always looks so unhappy.
I’d been sitting on the fence regarding this presidential election. Watching this video then checking on his veteran voting record and running away from debate, I will reluctantly vote for Obama. The lesser of two poor options.
So this is presidential material? Is this his view of “We the people?” He totally trashed on some woman because she was exercising her rights.
His storming out reminds me of a little kid having a tantrum. After seeing this, his ridiculous choice of Palin as a running mate and his phony “suspended” campaign stunt, I just can’t vote for him.
Little do people realize that he is a real coward, as with his dying of peer’s on the deck of the war ship fire, he hid in the barracks, not to come to their aid. Hero…….God no., Opportunist.
If Obama had reacted in the same way and was a P OW ,the mc cain camp would have been in vietnam forcing the authorities to hand over the info Mc cain is hiding, and it would have been on Fox hourly. Mc cain is not just petty he is a nasty cowardly individual,thank goodness people are seeing through him at last ,at least the fair and balanced people out there, and i dont mean fox.