THE MCCAIN "EXPERIENCE" MYTH

Item - The McCain campaign issued a press release on 8/23/08 that the Biden VP selection demonstrates Obama's lack of foreign policy experience



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 ?

MEMO TO HILLARY HOLDOUTS - WHEN RUDY AGREES WITH YOU ITS TIME TO GET OVER IT

Rudy Guliani was on the talk show circuit this weekend offering his unbiased opinion that choosing Hillary for VP was a “no brainer”. They know that fanning this flame is the key to Republican victory.

Hillary lost because she wasnt likeable enough. When a comedian is not getting laughs its because she’s not funny - its not because the audience is sexist.

a maybe - just maybe - all those white working class folks were motivated to vote for her not because of who she is but because of who she was running against - does Hillary Clinton really want to embrace "white backlashers" as a voting block?

She also lost because she voted for the war she knew to be a hoax because she cared more about her own career than whats best for the country.

Get over yourselves. This is not about chosing a class president This is not just about John McCain vs Barack Obama. This is about taking our flag and our country back from violent, lying, fundamentalists who stole the White House and have no respect for human life - unless you're an embryo or in a coma.

We need to get our country back from Republicans who have one defining theory of government which is - everything will be ok if rich people can just get more money.

For the sake of our children - keep your eyes on the prize.

A CAVEMAN TRIES TO UNDERSTAND A SCIENTIST ABOUT THE CELL PHONE CANCER THING

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When the latest new health scare/alert sends me into a tizzy I usually turn to my brother in law Myron the psychiatrist/scientist for help. Here is my caveman response ("cm" in bold) to Myrons email.
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Dear Bob
It is true that radio frequency radiation passes into the head from a cell phone,

caveman (cm) - radio frequency radiation into head - me no like

and it is probably true that substituting a Bluetooth earpiece for holding the phone against one's ear exposes the head to even more radiation.

cm- fuggetabout bluetooth

A metal shield is kind of dumb as a protective
strategy,

cm-fuggetabout dumb protective shields

but using a plastic tube to conduct sound to the ear from a little speaker located on one's lap would definitely reduce radiation to the head.

cm: lets get little speakers for our laps

However, one's lap would then be exposed to more radiation. Which region is more important will vary, of course, between people and changes as one ages.

cm: fuggetabout little speakers for our laps

Radio waves do not have enough energy to strip electrons away from
atoms and hence cannot influence ordinary chemical reactions.

cm: me feel better about radio waves

Even visible light cannot do this despite having far higher energy per photon. It is only when one gets into ultraviolet, Xray and gamma ray frequencies that you have ionizing radiation (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation ).
The radiation from a microwave oven cannot ionize... it only heats.

cm: finally - me happy - I can walk around with a microwave held up to my head or in my pocket without getting cancer


The amount of heat produced by a cell phone is so tiny that I don't think you could
measure the rise in temperature in the ear or anywhere.

cm: me like it when scary things cant be measured

However, for years, doctors have used "diathermy" machines to treat
orthopedic injuries. These emit high-frequency radio waves, like a
microwave oven (in fact, those waves are microwaves) and penetrate
deeper into muscles more rapidly than would a heat lamp or hot wet
towels. The warmth, combined with massage, is supposed to relax the
muscles and reduce pain and inflammation. The intensity of the
diathermy radiation is thousands of times greater than what is emitted
from a cell phone. There has been no evidence of diathermy causing
cancer.

cm: me getting sleepy

Radiation induces cancer by disrupting DNA. It knocks electrons off
the DNA or nearby molecules, making them available for unusual
chemical reactions. Only ionizing radiation can do this. Again,
visible sunlight, which is thousands of times more energetic per
photon than radio, can only heat up one's skin. It is only the
ultraviolet, again far more energetic per photon than, say, green
light, that can ionize anything and cause a sunburn or even induce
tanning.

cm: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

What this boils down to is that rumors, anecdotes, conspiracy theories
and pseudo-scientific polemic constitute the only basis for the
fantasy that cell phones next to the ear are more dangerous than a
cell phone in one's pocket.
As for radio waves, we are flooded with them, such as from radio and
TV broadcasts. A wire can pick up lots of energy from radio waves in
the air, a really lot. A so-called crystal radio set gets all its
energy from the antenna. You string a wire up to capture the radiation
that hits the wire, then pass the electricity through a coil and
capacitor that blocks out over 98% of the power and allows only a
little fraction to pass through... the fraction that is at the
frequency of a particular AM broadcast station. There remains enough
power in this fraction to produce sound in an earphone, with no
amplification, no batteries, no external source of power. There is a
lot of radio energy passing though us all the time, but, like I say,
it is non-ionizing and there is no serious body of evidence showing
any cancer risk.
As for using a little tube to conduct sound into the ear as little
puffs of air, this was how certain headphones in airplanes used to
operate. Nowadays, people plug electronic headphones into jacks on the
armrests, but one used to plug tubes into armrest holes. I think that
the fidelity of sound degrades when it has to pass through a littletube like that, so that it may be more difficult to decipher
conversations using the WaveShield RF1000 compared with a good
Bluetooth headset; and the latter usually includes a noise-cancellingmicrophone that supports hands-free operation when driving, walking or
eating. The little plastic tubes are better in an MRI machine...
that's how the technician talks to you and how they play music to help
you relax and enjoy.
Love, Myron

CM - me waking up in sweat. . . physics exam tomorrow . . . forgot to go to class

So Myron - Is it possible to answer the following true/false question?
Q Do cell-phones, in fact, emit enough radiation to cause cancer?
Yes or No
Thanks
Love Bob

stay tuned . . .