John McCain, the foreign policy "expert"..

[SoCalDem]

People keep telling us how smart he is, how well-versed in foreign policy he is,....but is he really??

Just "being there" for 24 years is not enough.. I'd be willing to bet that MOST of what he "knows" is what OTHERS have researched, and given him the Cliff Notes on , for speeches.

We already KNOW that most (and probably Ole Johnny-boy too) senators/congresspeople do NOT read the legislation they vote on.

John has bragged for years that the was chairman of the Commerce Committee ...and it was his primary focus..

He's spent decades schmoozing with media, cracking jokes, drinking with and entertaining them, so when have we EVER gotten the full story about him?.

He tells us gleefully that he finished next to the bottom of his only real "educational years"..and those years were in the mid 1950s.. I'm betting that since then, he's not actively studied ANYTHING.

After graduation (who would flunk-out Adm McCain's boy?..sound familiar??) his military career consisted of mainly drinking, partying and crashing the occasional plane, until he was shot down.. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner..

Once freed, he more or less immediately set out to get himself some women and some party time..Apparently he hooked up with Miss Cindy while still married to the faithful wife who waited for him. Miss Cindy's money allowed him to buy his way into government, where he has comfortably languished since then.

He has been on the government dole since he was born in 1936, in a hospital that was built in 1941 (Coco Solo hospital ...see wiki)...He's always had government-provided benefits...his whole life...and has the millionairess' money to fill the gaps.. He does not NEED to "know" much..

His speechifying on the floor of the senate has always contained falsehoods and myths, as have all the other speeches by all the rest.. they cover for each other..regardless of party, so the actual veracity of all those years of charts, graphs & statistics are never actually challenged.. Who KNOWS what he "knows".

This is why so many senators have stumbled when they run for president.. the press can find the errors in all those speeches, if they take the time to look.. John's cozy relationship with them , is why he's gotten so many "chances" and free passes. He says the stupidest things, and it's shrugged off as "Just John, being John"..

Well , We have had almost 8 years of George, just being George, and that's 8 years TOO LONG.. We cannot afford another "Shoot from the Lips" guy running the show.

McCain's formal "learning" was sub-par, and he's spent 24 years in office, using his POW experiences and his yuk-yuk personality as his twin crutches, carrying him along.

He's admitted that he was a terrible student, during the only educational time he had (a half-century ago), he was not that great of a pilot, and he's been involved in scandal..

He has shown courage, he has a rich wife & he's lucky..

Are those 3 things enough to bestow the presidency upon him??