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Lieberman: McCain's "Not Too Important" Comment Doesn't Matter Because He Served In Vietnam
There was a fun moment on the McCain conference call held a little while ago to defend his claim that it's "not too important" when the troops come home.
This is what Joe Lieberman had to say in defending McCain's comment:
I mean the obvious fact is that more than most any American, Senator McCain knows the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make, and the burden that their families bear. And it really is wrong to suggest otherwise. And obviously he knows that from his own -- well, from his father's service, and the impact it had on his family; from his own service and incarceration...
Of course, we keep hearing that John McCain is reluctant to invoke his war service in a political context. He told us so himself the other day.
So on the call, a reporter quite naturally asked McCain senior advisor Randy Scheunemann if Lieberman's evocation of McCain's service in this highly charged political context meant there was a shift of some kind and that we'd be seeing more of this.
"We're not gonna comment on that," Scheunemann said.
Late Update: Here's the audio from the call:
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