"Ace" McCain
Aug. 6th, 2008 04:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertango"John Sidney McCain III is known among many of his Vietnam flight buddies as "Ace" McCain. This title has not been bestowed upon McCain because he destroyed five enemy aircraft. On the contrary: It was five on our side -- in fact, five of his own."
Whole story here, crash by crash, from an article written in 2000.
Along these lines, I'd be remiss in not mentioning this version, by an organization calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.
Aw, heck, if I'm going that far... read here in Slate from 1999 about how McCain used his Senate Commerce Committee chairmanship to keep Ultimate Fighting off the air for a number of years. Or here, also in Slate, from 1998. "The media want him to be president. It's a bad idea."
Whole story here, crash by crash, from an article written in 2000.
Along these lines, I'd be remiss in not mentioning this version, by an organization calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.
Aw, heck, if I'm going that far... read here in Slate from 1999 about how McCain used his Senate Commerce Committee chairmanship to keep Ultimate Fighting off the air for a number of years. Or here, also in Slate, from 1998. "The media want him to be president. It's a bad idea."
