Do you think John McCain should be more specific in his campaign bumper stickers?
Currently they just say McCain 08. But he's been around FOREVER... so shouldnt it say "McCain 2008" so people dont confuse it with the time he ran for Senior Class president in 1908?
Public Comments
- Funny. I think "M '08" would be good. Just flip the letter in the linked picture upside down and change the 4 into an 8...
- HAR HAR HAR
- You so funny teach me
- Senator John McCain wasn't around in 1908; however, John McCain's grandfather, Admiral John McCain, was, taking part in the Great White Fleet's world cruise from 1907 to 1909. He had graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis two years earlier. Nimitz, Halsey, McCain and many other participants in this event would later rise to flag rank in World War II. McCain's next assignment was in the Asiatic Squadron, after which he went to the naval base in San Diego, California. During the First World War, he was on convoy duty in the Atlantic Ocean. In the 1920s and early 1930s, McCain served on the USS Maryland, USS New Mexico, and USS Nitro. His first command was the USS Sirius. In 1936, he became a naval aviator and from 1937 to 1939 he commanded the aircraft carrier USS Ranger. In January, 1941, after promotion to rear admiral, he commanded the Aircraft Scouting Force in the Atlantic Fleet. After the outbreak of hostilities between the U.S. and Japan in December, 1941, McCain was appointed as Commander, Aircraft, South Pacific in May 1942. In this position, he commanded all land-based Allied air operations supporting the Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands and south Pacific area. In October 1942, he was sent to Washington D.C. to head the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics. In August 1943 he became deputy chief of naval operations for air with the rank of vice admiral. McCain returned to combat operations in the Pacific in August 1944 with his appointment as commander of a carrier group in Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 (TF58), part of Raymond Spruance's Fifth Fleet. In this role, McCain participated in the Marianas campaign, including the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the beginning of the Philippines campaign. On October 30, 1944 McCain assumed command of TF58, now part of Bull Halsey's Third Fleet. In January 1945 he was reassigned as commander of a fast carrier task force that he led through the Battle of Okinawa and raids on the Japanese mainland. By war's end in August 1945, the stress of combat operations had worn McCain down to a weight of only 100 pounds. He requested home leave to recuperate but Halsey insisted that he be present at the Japanese surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay, Japan on September 2, 1945. Departing immediately after the ceremony, McCain died of a heart attack at his home in Coronado, California on September 6, 1945. He was posthumously promoted to full admiral. During his career McCain was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and two Gold Stars in lieu of subsequent awards.
- I think that he was at the signing of the Constitution...
- Are you suggesting that young and clueless is superior to old and experienced? Who would you rather do surgery on you; an old surgeon who has been performing such proceedures for forty years or a young intern who has never performed any surgical proceedures? Who do you want making life and death decisions? Someone who has done it many times before or someone who cannot seem to decide if he believes his own pastor or not? *
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