Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three ... and you're out!
posted by The Sailor @ 1:22 PM PermalinkMcCain reminds Biden he's been tested in crisisWhy didn't I see this sooner, (hand smack to forehead), a fighter pilot who'd graduated at the bottom of his class and had already crashed 3 multi-million dollar planes was ordered to sit in his cockpit and not do anything is exactly the same as President John F. Kennedy making the decision, his Commander In Chief, who could have ordered him to launch, but solved the crisis thru diplomacy.
Republican John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden warned Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president.
McCain recalled being ready to launch a bombing run during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which Biden said over the weekend tested a new President John F. Kennedy and was the template for the kind of "generated crisis" the 47-year-old Obama would face within six months of taking office.
"I was on board the USS Enterprise," McCain, a former naval aviator, said in the capital city of Harrisburg. "I sat in the cockpit, on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, off of Cuba.
Yep, JFK and McSame showed the exact same leadership skillz in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm sure sitting on your ass ready to launch is incredibly stressful, especially during potential nuclear war, but I can't understand why he would think it's the same stress as sitting in the Whitehouse, knowing you're also targeted, and having to make the decision to potentially start global thermonuclear war that would wipe out all of mankind.
It's a good thing we had someone calm and presidential instead of a hothead who jokes about bombing other countries.
Cross posted at SteveAudio
Labels: John McCain, presidential election
3 Comments:
Wow, ya know, I gotta laugh at McCain. That's a pretty long stretch in showing leadership skills in an escalating situation. It ain't gonna change his supporters, though. Maybe the so-called independent/swing votes. Ya think?
If elected, guaranteed he will 'wet start' a war.
What was he gonna do? Fly his plane into Cuba and crash it into the closest target? And this blithering idiot wasn't "tested" any more than I was. I was 9 years old at the time and had every bit as much say-so in Kennedy's decision as McInsane.
And believe me, I was making some wickedly good flying paper airplanes by then.
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