McCain channels Churchill in latest ad

[sabra]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican White House candidate John McCain on Friday likened himself to Britain's wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, in a new web ad laying out a hawkish "no surrender" foreign policy.

The advertisement, highlighting what he says is a transcendent struggle against Islamic extremism, uses striking imagery of the Statue of Liberty and the American flag, and McCain's time as a Vietnam war prisoner.

It was the latest sign that McCain, an Arizona senator, will try to make November's general election against either Democrat, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, about national security, and who can keep Americans safe.

The spot opens with Churchill's famous 1940 "we shall fight on the beaches" speech delivered when Britain was fearful of an invasion by Nazi Germany during World War II, and ends with the quote "we shall never surrender!"

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Big difference, McCain. Churchill and Britain actually had an 'enemy' to fight back. All you've got

is a made-up, bogey man and an illegal occupation of another country.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Churchill had no time for the dim-witted. nt

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. One of my favorite Churchill anecdotes:

There is a member of the government known as the Lord Privy Seal. He once needed Churchill's signature on an important document, and sent an aide to get the signature. The aide found Churchill in the bathroom and insistently pushed the papers under the stall door.

Churchill thundered, "Tell the Privy Seal I am sealed in the privy -- and I can only deal with one shit at a time!"

[Captain Hilts]

10. Or his grandson's "Grandpa, I'm told you're the greatest man in Britain, is this true?"...

"Yes it is, now bugger off."

"Dontcha love it?" As FDR would say...

[BeFree]

3. So

What does Mr. McOilwars have to say about how his hero, Bush, sat there for 7 minutes after he had been told America was under attack?

How can he set himself up as a leader when his hero let all of us down?

[bdamomma]

4. FU mc same

There is no way that this man should be president.

[Metta]

5. Boy, there's wishful thinking if ever there was.

He's still a vile thug shill.

[GoldenOldie]

7. I'm old enough to remember Churchill

Believe me, John McCain is no Churchill.

[Metta]

11. You got that right.

He's a pretender, except when he's a thug.

[katty]

6. poor Churchy-they never let this man rest in peace-just like jesus

[Javaman]

8. I'm assuming they mean the drunk Churchill, right? nt