Young McCain handed cigarette to five-year-old, laughed at result.

[Bluebear]

Sen. John McCain attended Episcopal High School, a Virginia prep school just outside Washington, DC., from 1951-54. As I've mentioned here at Flickr many times, my dad was head of the English department and served as a football and baseball coach there. He was McCain's junior varsity football coach for two years. I was a mischievous 5 year old the year McCain graduated.

My own memories of John McCain are limited mostly to the occasions when he'd be assigned to our house to work off demerits--raking leaves, mowing our backyard, etc. One day I was innocently wandering around the campus and stopped to talk to some of the students at "Egypt", the school's designated outdoor student smoking area on the south wall of Stewart Gym, the school's wrestling gymnasium. McCain was there with Rives Richie, another student and frequent guest at our house. The evil McCain asked me if I wanted to smoke a cigarette and handed me his. I took a puff, inhaling, choked on it and ran home. I could hear McCain laughing. I squealed on McCain later when he came over one night for burgers in our backyard, telling my dad, "That's the boy who made me smoke a cigarette!" Daddy and McCain just laughed at me.

Fifty years later George W. Bush referred to McCain as his lapdog. Now I'm laughing. The moral: Fuck with me and God will punish you.

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[iceman66]

1. Reminiscent of the story about the young W

tying firecrackers to frogs.

Funny how you never hear these kinds of stories about Democratic leaders.

[Bluebear]

2. Their character was revealed early. nt

[tilsammans]

3. Ew, gross . . .

. . . he was an asshole then, and he's still an asshole now.

:puke: