On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:39:53 +0000, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


His military service is also valuable, but not in a way that's obvious.
Success in politics (and other areas of life in general) often depends
on getting certain people to shut the **** up already and stop making
noise, so actual messages can be heard. There's a contingent of voters
(unfortunately) who believe that you cannot formulate foreign policy
unless you've served in the military. McCain's history silences those
idiots, at least on THAT subject.

And interesting factoid you may already know. McCain was inadvertently
involved with the fire that almost sunk the Forrestal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal