Glorified version of a POW
blondieblue227
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How strong are his ethics? Why do people want this guy to lead the country? Are they blind?
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"John allows the media to make him out to be the hero POW, which he knows is absolutely not true, to further his political goals. John was just one of about 600 guys. He was nothing unusual. He was just another POW." - Phillip Butler, Fellow POW.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/261619
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maybe they didn't kill him not because he was brave
or maybe he stayed in to not look bad to his family
'Lt. McCain's father, Adm. John "Jack" McCain Jr., held three flag commands in Hampton Roads in the 1960s en route to becoming commander in chief of all Pacific forces at the height of the Vietnam War.
They were the first father-son duo of four-star admirals in Navy history. Their long shadow was both an inspiration and a burden to their namesake and rendered him a prize prisoner during his 5-1/2 years as a POW in Vietnam.'
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/mccains-local-history-tells-tale-rebellious-daredevil
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'McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion.'
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-124739
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'4. Mr. McCain narrowly escaped being thrown out of the U.S. Naval Academy on many occasions. He graduated fifth from the bottom of his class.'
flashing back to vision from Major Payne movie:
'13. Mr. McCain's father was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1981, the latest McCain to be buried there in a line dating back to the Revolutionary War. '
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/101908dnpolmccain50things.194dcf8.html
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"John allows the media to make him out to be the hero POW, which he knows is absolutely not true, to further his political goals. John was just one of about 600 guys. He was nothing unusual. He was just another POW." - Phillip Butler, Fellow POW.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/261619
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maybe they didn't kill him not because he was brave
or maybe he stayed in to not look bad to his family
'Lt. McCain's father, Adm. John "Jack" McCain Jr., held three flag commands in Hampton Roads in the 1960s en route to becoming commander in chief of all Pacific forces at the height of the Vietnam War.
They were the first father-son duo of four-star admirals in Navy history. Their long shadow was both an inspiration and a burden to their namesake and rendered him a prize prisoner during his 5-1/2 years as a POW in Vietnam.'
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/mccains-local-history-tells-tale-rebellious-daredevil
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'McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion.'
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-124739
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'4. Mr. McCain narrowly escaped being thrown out of the U.S. Naval Academy on many occasions. He graduated fifth from the bottom of his class.'
flashing back to vision from Major Payne movie:
'13. Mr. McCain's father was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1981, the latest McCain to be buried there in a line dating back to the Revolutionary War. '
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/101908dnpolmccain50things.194dcf8.html
*~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*
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See how that works. Let's talk about some real issues.
Good point since the current cokehead in office has fucked things up
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'The 25-year-old lieutenant, flying a prop-driven AD-6 Skyraider from Attack Squadron 65, based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, was one of 60 pilots making a dawn training run over Spain.
En route back to the carrier Enterprise, McCain told a reporter, his plane lost power and went into a dive. He said he was only 30 feet above a river when he managed to restart his engine and pull the plane up, in the process slicing through a set of power lines and cutting off electricity to the surrounding countryside.'
'His initial account of that 1962 incident - that it was caused by engine failure - didn't stand the test of time. Almost four decades later, in his 1999 autobiography, "Faith of My Fathers," he confessed that he snagged the power lines while flying too low.
"My daredevil clowning had cut off electricity to a great many Spanish homes and created a small international incident," he wrote.'
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'His pugnacious streak was evident at an early age. At the smallest provocation, he would hold his breath until he blacked out and crashed to the floor unconscious. His parents countered the tantrums by dropping him into a bathtub of cold water.
As the family moved with each new Navy assignment, the young McCain bounced from school to school and often was disciplined for fighting. "At each new school I became an unrepentant pain in the neck," he wrote.'
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'The engine of his Skyraider quit while he was practicing landings, McCain wrote in his autobiography, and the plane plummeted into Corpus Christi Bay. McCain clambered out of the canopy and swam to the surface, suffering only a minor backache.
Contrary to McCain's account, the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that a Navy investigation found no evidence of engine failure. Investigators determined that McCain was preoccupied watching instruments in his cockpit showing the position of his landing gear and lost track of his altitude and speed. They also found that he used a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn.
In any event, McCain wrote, after a few hours' rest he was "out carousing, injured back and all, later that evening."'
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'To that end, McCain and some fellow pilots set up housekeeping in a house on 37th Street near the Oceanfront which - according to his autobiography - became known far and wide for "the most raucous and longest beach parties of any squadron in the Navy."'
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LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
"McCain had flown a T2-A Buckeye trainer jet to Philadelphia to join his parents for the annual Army-Navy football game. On the return flight, carrying a load of Christmas presents for the family, he ran into trouble en route to Norfolk for refueling and ditched the plane over the Eastern Shore. The jet crashed into the woods near Cape Charles as McCain parachuted onto the beach.
"Lt. McCain Ejects Safely," read the headline in The Virginian-Pilot.
McCain said his engine flamed out. But according to the Los Angeles Times, Navy investigators were unable to corroborate his account and cited several pilot errors in the crash.
"And I had to replace all those presents!" his mother told a reporter later."
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.........not so funny.
'He was in the cockpit of his A-4 Skyhawk on the flight deck of the Norfolk-based carrier Forrestal, waiting to take off, when an electrical malfunction on a nearby F-4 Phantom ignited a Zuni missile, which streaked across the deck and slammed into McCain's belly fuel tank. The ensuing inferno engulfed the ship, killing 134 men in one of the Navy's worst accidental disasters.'
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/mccains-local-history-tells-tale-rebellious-daredevil