Hanoi Jane Fonda has thrown her support behind Sen. Barack Obama.

The communist-loving, troop-hating, anti-American traitor backs the anti-military, communist-loving candidate?

Feign surprise.

Andrew Malcolm puts it in its proper context:

The problem for those of a certain generation that endured the Vietnam War and the sometimes violent domestic conflict that accompanied it at home is that during Fonda’s controversial wartime visit to North Vietnam, she was photographed at a Communist anti-aircraft gun battery.

According to the photo caption distributed at the time, she joined North Vietnamese soldiers there in singing an antiwar song while preparing to shoot at attacking Americans.

This earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane (indeed, that’s the TMZ headline this afternoon) and an enduring image as a polarizing figure, especially regarding patriotism.

As it happens, the Republican presidential candidate this time is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who was one of those American fliers shot down over that same city by those same anti-aircraft forces, tortured and spent nearly six years in a POW cell while Fonda returned home.

Most of the bikers I ride with are Vietnam Veterans. I’ve seen more than one “Jane Fonda — American Traitor Bitch” patch sewn onto a ride vest. In fact, I have one sewn on my vest. Bring up her name and you can still see the rage in their eyes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some 60-ish fence-sitters, especially if they served in Vietnam, who just made up their mind to go in the opposite direction as Hanoi Jane. Anything not to be on the same side of anything with that traitorous bitch.

In the words of Marine Cpl. David Thibodeaux: Forgive, no chance. Forget, not till my last breath

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OTHERS:

Scott at Powerline adds: “Close observers of the campaign may recall that Senator McCain admits to having been tied up at the time of the 1969 Woodstock festival. He was still tied up at the time of Fonda’s 1972 visit to Hanoi.”

RedState adds this, via Snopes:

To add insult to injury, when American POWs finally began to return home (some of them having been held captive for up to nine years) and describe the tortures they had endured at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Jane Fonda quickly told the country that they should “not hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars.” Fonda said the idea that the POWs she had met in Vietnam had been tortured was “laughable,”

Wake up America — “Barack Obama has no say over who supports him, or who votes for him or who endorses him, so her endorsement reflects nothing except the type of people that are drawn to Barack Obama.”

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | Trackback |