McCain needs to find a nice rest home – not the White House.

So he is left with the argument that he should be prez because he was in the military. Isn’t the argument of a military junta / banana republic / dictatorship ?

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wilke?

is that the best

they can do?

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Or you can just right-click on the McCain Aces JPEG right there on the web page, save it AND save yourself $25 bucks!

And the squadron of jets used in the graphic? Russian Mig 29’s! SWEET!

to be fair I’ve seen no compelling evidence that the carrier mishap was McCain’s fault. There’s one video that I know of that is too poor in resolution and too jerky to serve as “proof” that McCain did a “wet-burn” that caused the fire that supposedly ‘burned off’ the missile on the F-4 behind McCain.

also to be fair, I’m not saying that isn’t how it really happened either–from the records I’ve seen McCain was a shitty and undisciplined pilot–just like he’s a shitty and undisciplined politician.

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Come the new Democratic administration of 2009 I hope someone has the sense to ask VoteVets and IVAW to take part in a properly funded and authorized effort to reform the VA and provide policy advice on the many matters that affect the military.

Professional politicians always claim to know more than they really do and to know better when they really don’t—its just part of being a politician. They also reserve the right to change their ‘firmly held’ positions whilst never admitting hypocrisy and rarely if ever admitting a former fundamental lack of judgment or former ignorance about an issue or issues they once claimed to be expert-in.

McCain however seems to have taken these pretty standard traits to a whole other level. He has taken to changing his positions, his sage assessments and even his qualifications within weeks, days even hours and minutes on practically every issue he’s chosen to pontificate about.

He can’t blame such about-faces on youthful innocence or careful consideration or the sudden acquisition of new information that casts a dramatic new light on a situation because these reversals have been happing in the present and practically in “real-time”.

What’s more he hasn’t just changed from one position to its opposite and then hewed firmly to his new belief of policy—he’s actually switched back to his previous position on a subject and then switched again to its new (or rather now slightly used) polar opposite practically before anyone has finished recording what they thought his new position was (which would be the ‘old’ position—until he changes yet again, of course).

Furthermore whichever side of an issue he happens to be on at any given moment the arguments for his stance are invariably insubstantial and lack substantiation—he’s either shallow or stupid and often both—lacking the wit, wisdom or knowledge to comprehend the subject he supposedly feels strongly about or to claim the expertise he adamantly professes or to make his case or defend it, rationally coherently and convincingly to his peers and betters.

As a result when simply questioned about his inconsistencies his illogic and his inability to provide of evidential details he simply dismisses the question and flat-out lies about his own previous statements.

McCain was barely qualified to be a Navy pilot (and one has to wonder if the fact that his father was an Admiral had anything to do with him scraping-through graduation) and I fail to see how crashing three planes, being shot down in a fifth and then spending years in prison before returning home and then quitting the military in short-order to pursue politics makes him in any way an expert on the military or foreign policy—just two of the many responsibilities that a president must attend-to that are supposed to be his strongest subjects.
He’s never written a policy paper or a study for the War College (for which we should be thankful) or even an op-ed reflecting anything more pure and unremarkable opinion.

Add to that the fact that he clearly doesn’t listen to non-complementary views, is quick to belittle others, loses his temper when challenged and makes fantastic absolutist and fatuous claims such “I know how to win a war” and the cognitive dissonance he exhibits (such as supporting torture when he himself was tortured and claims he only gave false information) are all traits he shares with Bush to the most remarkable degree.

I wouldn’t let McCain drive his own campaign bus, let-alone a foreign policy initiative. And I wouldn’t let him make change at a lemonade-stand either–such is his grasp of the most basic economics. McCain is demonstrably incapable of getting anything right.

McCain is a very dangerous candidate. He should be re-nicknamed “Danger-Close”. Let’s make sure we don’t come to know him as “President ClusterF##k”.

And now that they’re accepting convicted felons, the armed forces will soon be providing us with an even finer crop of presidential fodder.

The guy is confused and there’s no way he’s winning in November.

Why would you want to have a CiC that is 100% disabled?

Oh, so Obama wasn’t in the service. I guess his long years in the US Senate will substitute.

Naw, his brain will substitute. It will be nice to have a President that has one of those.

And as for his ‘muddling through’ on Afghanistan, I guess that explains this from Huffpo today:

<a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/17/mccain-attended-zero-afgh_n_113452.html”>McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years

Guess you want to continue in BushCo’s trend of never being confused with the facts, right?

Oh, so Obama wasn’t in the service. I guess his long years in the US Senate will substitute.

At least he didn’t wreck 5 aircraft and cripple an aircraft carrier.

And, he has actually shown up to vote, something McDepends hasn’t done since April.

Jim Wilke Says:
Yes, Obama would be a much better commander in chief. Just look at his military record……….what branch of the service was he in?

Good point, JIm. A borderline-senile vet who graduated 894th out of 899 from the Naval Academy and who can’t tell the difference between the nations we invaded will always make a better CiC than a civilian with a sound grasp of reality.

Man, those founding fathers were really stupid to insist that the Commander in Chief be the President and not a career military guy, huh? Now we have to go to the bother of electing a military guy, whether he’s in full possession of his faculties or not. It’s just a good thing no military vet would exploit his record to get elected.

I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and think you were posting a sarcastic remark…………. Right?

Yes, Obama would be a much better commander in chief. Just look at his military record……….what branch of the service was he in?

The same branch that FDR was in, nitwit. And Lincoln. And your big hero, Ronnie Reagan, who pretended to be in the military but spent the war making propaganda movies. And, of course, the heroic service of GWB, spent drinking his way across Alabama while the poor kids died in Vietnam.