So how much of this article is true? I have always assumed that John McCain was traumatized by his experience in Vietnam. But this article is quite disturbing.
Would someone with this psychological history be trusted with a waterpistol much less a nuclear arsenal?
And if a decorated Vietnam veteran like General Wesley Clark can not even suggest that being shot down in an airplane is not in itself a sufficient qualification for president without committing political suicide, what hope do other critics have?
Full Version: Will we discuss McCain's sanity?
We certainly saw a lot of Vietnam vets that went through a whole lot less than McCain come home with PTSD. It seems McCain's sanity is off limits just as many other aspects of his life. And since they are off limits, we can't even flesh out if other stories about him are true or not. Such as:
THE STORY on McCain is that, as a USNA “legacy”, he finished with a class rank of 895 out of 899.
THE STORY on McCain is that he lost three jets out from under him before he was shot down, including one which hit high tension lines when he buzzed a beach, and another when he was returning home from an Army-Navy game, possibly after too much drinking.
THE STORY on McCain is that without his family name, the above two stories would have washed him out of flight qualification forever.
THE STORY on McCain is that his “fighter pilot bravado” caused the fire on the USS Forrestal that killed ~150 sailors.
THE STORY on McCain is that he collaborated with the Viet Cong for special, especially medical, treatment and was known to his co-prisoners as “Songbird”.
THE STORY on McCain is that when he came home from Viet Nam and found his faithful wife had lost her great looks in a horrible car accident, he went shopping around for a new trophy and started sleeping with Cindy while still married.
THE STORY on McCain is that he will do anything to get elected, including sucking up to the “Agents of Intolerance” and Bush’s billionaire base.
THE STORY on McCain is that he is a hot-headed, dim-witted child of privilege (like anyone else we know?) who is (equally) unfit for the presidency.
Obama detractors claim he gets a free pass because he's black, yet trivial issues like whether or not he wears a flag pin are MAJOR issues where he's concerned.
McCain's bonding moment with one of his former North Vietnamese interrogators, Bui Tin, in that picture certainly makes the collaborator story and "Songbird" nickname more believable. If not, well then you need to question his sanity.
THE STORY on McCain is that, as a USNA “legacy”, he finished with a class rank of 895 out of 899.
THE STORY on McCain is that he lost three jets out from under him before he was shot down, including one which hit high tension lines when he buzzed a beach, and another when he was returning home from an Army-Navy game, possibly after too much drinking.
THE STORY on McCain is that without his family name, the above two stories would have washed him out of flight qualification forever.
THE STORY on McCain is that his “fighter pilot bravado” caused the fire on the USS Forrestal that killed ~150 sailors.
THE STORY on McCain is that he collaborated with the Viet Cong for special, especially medical, treatment and was known to his co-prisoners as “Songbird”.
THE STORY on McCain is that when he came home from Viet Nam and found his faithful wife had lost her great looks in a horrible car accident, he went shopping around for a new trophy and started sleeping with Cindy while still married.
THE STORY on McCain is that he will do anything to get elected, including sucking up to the “Agents of Intolerance” and Bush’s billionaire base.
THE STORY on McCain is that he is a hot-headed, dim-witted child of privilege (like anyone else we know?) who is (equally) unfit for the presidency.
Obama detractors claim he gets a free pass because he's black, yet trivial issues like whether or not he wears a flag pin are MAJOR issues where he's concerned.
McCain's bonding moment with one of his former North Vietnamese interrogators, Bui Tin, in that picture certainly makes the collaborator story and "Songbird" nickname more believable. If not, well then you need to question his sanity.
In an extensive online biography of the Senior Ranking Officer in the Hanoi Hilton during John McCain's internment, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore (Ted) Guy, an apparently very conservative writer says:
When even those who should know him best or support him most, believe him to be less than sane - or even honest for that matter - why should the rest of us not question his fitness for the presidency?
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It is clear that Ted Guy's battles for the POW/MIAs included violent verbal contests with Senator John McCain, whose record in forcing a lid on further investigations in the 1990s aggravated not only Guy, but POW/MIA activists - many of whom fought on the ground in Laos and South Vietnam -- across the country.
But in this post by former [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LeBoutillier]former Republican New York congressman John Boutillier is not so kind. In his opinion "In sum, McCain is a disaster waiting to happen."When even those who should know him best or support him most, believe him to be less than sane - or even honest for that matter - why should the rest of us not question his fitness for the presidency?
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