Idiotic anti-scientific bullshit from McCain

[Blackflag]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
He was graciously rewarded with the civilian position because he was recognized as very able, despite being disabled...

FDR didn't become disabled until later in life, after he had been the Assistant Secretary of the navy.

Do you enjoy making shit up and hoping nobody will call you on it?

I mean, we could probably take every one of your posts and find something that's factually incorrect, couldn't we? But that's no fun.

We'll just pretend your right. It wouldn't be advantageous to have a commander in chief with knowledge and experience with the military.

We don't need experience in business, management, economics either... better to have lawyers with no experience. They have it all figured out.

Clown.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Blackflag
FDR didn't become disabled until later in life, after he had been the Assistant Secretary of the navy.

He had polio...

Do you enjoy making shit up and hoping nobody will call you on it?

What shit have I made up, dummy?

And I'm the one that told YOU he was a senior civilian Dept. of War executive, dope...

Feel free to enlighten us with all your mad WWII history knowledge skills, bookworm!

Do you enjoy continually getting owned?

I mean, we could probably take every one of your posts and find something that's factually incorrect, couldn't we? But that's no fun.

Yeah, and too much work for a bitchy, big mouthed fool like you...

We'll just pretend your right. It wouldn't be advantageous to have a commander in chief with knowledge and experience with the military.

We don't need experience in business, management, economics either... better to have lawyers with no experience. They have it all figured out.

Clown.

When did I ever say any of the above, assclown? I said military experience in itself is meaningless if it was nothing but a half-hearted, cynical time-card punching exercise towards political office. Not that I would ever say that about McCain because he's a genuine hero that suffered greatly in that shithole.

But that didn't really matter much to the "supa' patriotic" right wing Republofuckwiticans that voted Bouche in 2000, did it?

[Blackflag]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
He had polio...

Later in life...after he was in the Navy. Go make me some fries, stupid cunt.

[Seshmeister]

I think you need to look at this.

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

It's amazing how by an incredible coincidence the US ruling class seem to end up in the reserves so often...

Lyndon Johnson is interesting...

After America entered the war in December 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned officer in the Navy Reserves, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal for a combat assignment.[8] Instead he was sent to inspect the shipyard facilities in Texas and on the West Coast. In the spring of 1942, President Roosevelt needed his own reports on what conditions were like in the Southwest Pacific. Roosevelt felt information that flowed up the military chain of command needed to be supplemented by a highly trusted political aide. From a suggestion by Forrestal, President Roosevelt assigned Johnson to a three-man survey team of the Southwest Pacific.

Johnson reported to General Douglas MacArthur in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber; it was shot down and everyone died. Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson. Some accounts say it was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back due to generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[9] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase.[10] MacArthur awarded LBJ the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal, although it is notable that no other members of the flight crew were awarded medals, and it is unclear what Johnson could have done in his role purely as an "observer" to deserve the medal, even if it had seen combat.

Johnson biographer Robert Caro stated, "The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history. Because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star."