WHERE'S JOHN'S FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE? CAN YOU FIND IT?
COME ON - LET'S SEE IF WE CAN FIND ANY IN JOHN'S WIKIPEDIA BIO
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election.
McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. Later that year while on a bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was shot down, badly injured, and captured as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He was held from 1967 to 1973, experiencing episodes of torture and refusing an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his war wounds would leave him with lifelong physical limitations.
Amazing story of a 33 year old fighter pilot's suffering and bravery in 1969 - but is that a reason - 4 decades later- to give this 72 year old man the codes to start a nuclear war?
Let’s keep looking - maybe the relevant foreign policy experience is coming up . . .
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and, moving to Arizona, entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain has gained a media reputation as a "maverick" for disagreeing with his party on several key issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the "Keating Five", he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002.
whoa - just a minute - "a member of the Keating Five" - that wasn't an 80's rock band- wasn't that one of the largest political corruption frauds in American history and didn't he just miss being indicted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s,
so this more recent Vietnam experience was just a tad under 2 decades ago - that can't be all there is - can it ?
and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion in the 2000s.
he bought Bush's Iraq/Al Queda hoax hook line and sinker and he was one of the earliest and most prominent uncritical cheerleaders for the most disastrous dishonest use of American military power in modern history - now, without a shred of ciritical insight into the invasion of Iraq, teh best he can come up with is escalation without an exit strategy -
he may not have much foreign policy experience but it does tell us something about his "judgment" and that he doesn't need a proven securitythreat before sending our armed forces in harm's way
lets keep going - were almost at the end -
wow- its not that long a resume for such an old man - is it?
McCain has chaired the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, and has been a leader in seeking to rein in both pork barrel spending as well as Senate filibusters of judicial nominations.no - its not there
McCain lost his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. He ran again for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, and gained enough delegates to become the party's presumptive nominee in March 2008.
Jeepers creepers - is that it ?
That's the foreign policy resume he's bragging about?
Republicans wouldn't be trying to fool people - would they ?
