Rolling Stone - BRUTALLY MOCKS McCAIN: "Make-Believe Maverick"

Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

By TIM DICKINSONPosted Oct 16, 2008 7:00 PM

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McCain displayed little of Hope's valor....McCain took no part in dousing the flames himself. After going belowdecks and briefly helping sailors who were frantically trying to unload bombs from an elevator to the flight deck, McCain retreated to the safety of the "ready room,"...watched the conflagration unfold on the room's closed-circuit television....

As the ship burned, McCain took a moment to mourn his misfortune; his combat career appeared to be going up in smoke. "This distressed me considerably," he recalls in Faith of My Fathers. "I feared my ambitions were among the casualties in the calamity that had claimed the Forrestal."

The fire blazed late into the night. The following morning, while oxygen-masked rescue workers toiled to recover bodies from the lower decks, McCain was making fast friends with R.W. "Johnny" Apple of The New York Times, who had arrived by helicopter to cover the deadliest Naval calamity since the Second World War. The son of admiralty surviving a near-death experience certainly made for good copy, and McCain colorfully recounted how he had saved his skin. But when Apple and other reporters left the ship, the story took an even stranger turn: McCain left with them. As the heroic crew of the Forrestal mourned its fallen brothers and the broken ship limped toward the Philippines for repairs, McCain zipped off to Saigon for what he recalls as "some welcome R&R."

more at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

that dares to explore delicate territory. To peek behind the myth.

Rolling Stone rocks.

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For the country, first, from John McCain.

He hasn't changed.

been invaluble this season..stuff you wouldn't find in Time or Newsweek.

I'm guessing palin doesn't read RS.

getting people to pay attention to it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7267784

I clicked on your link to read the article (10 pages!) and by the time I got back, your thread was long buried. Glad to see this article back on the top of the page.

as the only man to have survived four plane crashes.

what happened last Thursday when he met with the President and the congressional leaders about the bail out plan.

He is not a good man. There needs to be more stories about this.

I'm so glad he's finally being exposed!

I don't understand why he opposed the release of these documents unless he has something to hide. I know that the MIA family members have no use for the bastard.

of MIA leads that led to 20,000 interviews with refugees and hundreds of on site investigations in Vietnam.

I think that the reason that he has blocked the records of his entire military career are revealed in this article, he was a mediocre student, pilot and nothing heroic in his POW experience - which was a brutal experience.

There is a reason that he isn't Admiral McCain.

K&R

he should be in the asshole hall of fame

I hope that McCain gets asked about this article in public, I want to see him snap and get dragged away in a white vest.

The picture is brilliant! LOL!

The article sure covers a lot of McSame's history the M$M has been ignoring.


K&R

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replying now so I can find later.

McCain clearly attained rank and logged pilot hours he should never have seen.

John McCain III is simply a mere captain of "me".

... declaring Palin was hounded by the biased Gwen Ifill.

Even more detail and frightening insight into McScary.

God help us.

worrying about his career prospects as his shipmates burn to death around him:

"This distressed me considerably," he recalls in Faith of My Fathers. "I feared my ambitions were among the casualties in the calamity that had claimed the Forrestal."


John McCain is SCUM.

Long, but well worth the read.

Even if John McCain wasn't currently decompensating and displaying symptoms of what would appear to be Alzheimer's syndrome (or another type of dementia), this is NOT the person we need in charge of the country.

To mangle my metaphors...
the guy we've got driving the bus now was known to be a drunk driver even before he was handed the keys...
and look where that's gotten us. :nuke::banghead:

Do we really want somebody with a track record of crashing his planes due to carelessness and bad judgement as a pilot? :scared:



If nothing else...McCain's so hot-headed and bad-tempered he'd probably not even be somebody with whom you'd want to have a beer. :sarcasm:

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If McCain wants to play dirty, then he should be exposed for the chicken-shit he is.

Best comprehensive review of McCain

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