Post by Al. E. CrocodilePost by t***@nospam.net07/03/2008
On Jul 2, 11:13 am, "Al. E. Crocodile" <ObamaCroc08.net> wrote: >
Could militancy be far behind? Could we return to those dark days of
the 60's. Watch this and tell me.
http://youtu.be/cODq6Vt2PI4
the 60's were the good old days for us and the end of the world
for you racists, and you have never gotten over it
The 60s were the triumph of the drug-besotted, cultureless and the
self-indulgent.
I thought so then and I think so today.
So you weren't getting anything then, or now, eh!
he was one of those fat ass, butt ugly,retarded okies from muskokie
Reasons for voting for McCain? Not very many.
"...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.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's
subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly
favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and
the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to
flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below
par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it.
What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life
of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing
landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked
unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the
bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying
dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady,
had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took
out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he
was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a
trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of
Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when
the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the
standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected,
landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump
of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent
brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude
the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost
aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license.
There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology
but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around
their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It
is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged
atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives
some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier
flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew
the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He
was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
Flameouts?
Did he run out of fuel because he was unknowledgeable about fuel
consumption?
Is this the temperament we want for president?