I'll help a bit, Google, John "wet start" McCain
That one is false. But Google Keating Five and you can see his corruption. None of his admiring media fans mentioned that.
I'll help a bit, Google, John "wet start" McCain
That one is false. But Google Keating Five and you can see his corruption. None of his admiring media fans mentioned that.
The Rolling Stone article "A Maverick, revisited" is pretty interesting.
I will say that my father and his brother we're serving in the Navy during most of McCains career and both of them would puff up when his name was mentioned. I heard them and other squids talk about him for years and years. Same thing with my two BIL's that went to Annapolis, not much love their either.
I have a friend I grewup with that also inlisted in the Marines, he ended up being a guard / MP at the gates at Annapolis and he was eating chow one day and McCain was there for some reason and the milk machine was empty. Larry said McCain had a nuclear meltdown with having no milk with his meal. That would have been late 70's, Maybe really early eighty's.
Please tell me you really believe that he got into the Academy WITHOUT those connections.
Lets be honest here...
I served my 6 years, That in its self more than what 7% or less of of America has done. I've earned the right to have my opinions and personally could care less what you think of them.
those same connections got McCain that 'liaison' job to Congress as well after he returned home
McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.
Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a “confession” to his North Vietnamese captors.
Dramesi says today. “But he’s still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.”
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
You are never ending, and have a story for everything under the son; I mean sun. Keep on posting. The forum wouldn’t be the same without you. Thank you for the laughs.
Name-calling is not in my character. I want to first apologize for that. Secondly, after reading over the comments and links about McCain, I have to step back and admit that he was not one of the greatest men. When I realized he voted down the healthcare bill the GOP attempted to pass, simply out of his personal grudge against Trump, I needed to reevaluate my opinion on him. I don't know is his latter-years behavior was due to his cancer affecting his thinking or if this is just real McCain.
Admittedly I came to dislike McCain - the politician. Like Vrai, I left the GOP, not because of him specifically, but because of people like him. The RINO movement! But, I allowed my dedication to things-military to skew my thinking. You folks are certainly entitled to your opinion on him (or anyone else for that matter), and I share many of those feelings; and I shouldn't have allowed that to place judgment on any of you.
Again, please accept my apology.
Name-calling is not in my character. I want to first apologize for that. Secondly, after reading over the comments and links about McCain, I have to step back and admit that he was not one of the greatest men. When I realized he voted down the healthcare bill the GOP attempted to pass, simply out of his personal grudge against Trump, I needed to reevaluate my opinion on him. I don't know is his latter-years behavior was due to his cancer affecting his thinking or if this is just real McCain.
Admittedly I came to dislike McCain - the politician. Like Vrai, I left the GOP, not because of him specifically, but because of people like him. The RINO movement! But, I allowed my dedication to things-military to skew my thinking. You folks are certainly entitled to your opinion on him (or anyone else for that matter), and I share many of those feelings; and I shouldn't have allowed that to place judgment on any of you.
Again, please accept my apology.
It's nothing we all get carried away at times. I know I do.
Not me.
I strive to always be a stalwart example of civility and decorum!
Striving and "Gittin' 'er done " are sometimes 2 different things.
Striving and "Gittin' 'er done " are sometimes 2 different things.
Name-calling is not in my character. I want to first apologize for that. Secondly, after reading over the comments and links about McCain, I have to step back and admit that he was not one of the greatest men. When I realized he voted down the healthcare bill the GOP attempted to pass, simply out of his personal grudge against Trump, I needed to reevaluate my opinion on him. I don't know is his latter-years behavior was due to his cancer affecting his thinking or if this is just real McCain.
Admittedly I came to dislike McCain - the politician. Like Vrai, I left the GOP, not because of him specifically, but because of people like him. The RINO movement! But, I allowed my dedication to things-military to skew my thinking. You folks are certainly entitled to your opinion on him (or anyone else for that matter), and I share many of those feelings; and I shouldn't have allowed that to place judgment on any of you.
Again, please accept my apology.