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McCain's Secret, Questionable Record
Jeffrey Klein
Investigative journalist, co-founder of Mother Jones
Posted: June 16, 2008 08:50 PM
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Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airedales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished, according to his own books, by mediocrity and misdeeds, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
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(35,341 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Susan Rice was valedictorian at the super elite National Cathedral School in Wash DC, phi beta kappa at Stanford, Rhodes Scholar and her doctoral dissertation at Oxford was chosen the best dissertation in international relations in the United Kingdom. She is a certified genius.
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Aristus
(66,380 posts)if he had just been a better pilot.
Enjoy your stay, It won't be long.
McCain fans are thin on the ground around here...
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)You can have the senile, bitter old embarrassment.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Whatever you say John. Way to fuck up picking a running mate!
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)why was she dumb enough to parrot the clearly ludicrous initial intelligence assessment that the attacks were precipitated by the anti-Muslim video?
Book-smart, but quite stupid.
Initech
(100,079 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)he's as dumb as a sack of dog shit.
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)the man is full of anger and venom, and clearly isn't the most intelligent bloke, so it doesn't surprise us that an overachiever like him would run down a woman who is better than him.