[lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 11 16:29:17 PDT 2008


Joanna (or anyone)--

What's your take on someone of John McCain's means (and, well, abilities) receiving disability checks to the tune of $58,358 per year? Especially when his wife, the Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser heiress, makes hundreds of millions, they have 8 houses, etc.?

So, technically, John McCain is disabled and gets govt. benefits for that. Any thoughts? Is McCain like Kerry -- some effete guy who'd unmanfully found a sugar mama to coddle him into power? (Or so the GOP said.)

-B.

From: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story

[...]

On Monday, McCain's staff identified the retirement benefit as a "disability pension" and said that McCain "was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW."

McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. "Tortured for his country -- that is how he acquired his disability," Salter said.

[...]



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list