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Why Was McCain at the Bottom of his Class at Annapolis(Not West Point?) - Thank You Readers

(posted by Mona)

Among other things, he incredibly believes that Venezuela is a Middle Eastern country.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Categories: GOP morons, McCain.

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8 Responses to “Why Was McCain at the Bottom of his Class at Annapolis(Not West Point?) - Thank You Readers”

  1. C Smith Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Funny, but the simple insertion of a comma rescues the quotation in all 57 states.

  2. The Hurls Says:
    October 1st, 2008 at 6:54 am

    It’s pretty hard to graduate at the bottom of a class at a school you never attended. If your going to try and make a point, at least get your facts straight. McCain went to The Naval Academy.

  3. crimelord Says:
    October 1st, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Anyone know how McCain got into Annapolis in the first place?

  4. Kolohe Says:
    October 1st, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    das upchucken-
    I think that was the joke.

    don crimen-
    He went to a fairly elite prep school in Alexandria. (so a ‘modest’ gpa probably wouldn’t hurt him, esp back in 50’s. Good test scores would be enough- which smart slackers like McCain, and myself can fairly easily achieve.)
    And children of military members (of all ranks) get to take advantage of a special group of nominations (called the ‘presidential’ I think) due to the fact that military personnel move around a lot and so are assumed not to have a longstanding relationship with their community (which in turn makes the senator/representative nomination process harder for them)

  5. crimelord Says:
    October 1st, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Koloke,
    So he got in because of his fathers status?

  6. Kolohe Says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 am

    Literally, yes. But not in the same way as, say, W got into the white house.

    The advantages of being an Admiral’s son would not be terribly greater than any other officer’s son. Or for that matter a senior enlisted (just by the fact that you have a 17 year old kid means you’re generally at least a LCDR if you’re an officer, a Chief Petty Officer if you’re enlisted - or an LDO or Warrant) (also, his father wasn’t an admiral (1 star) until his senior year at the chesapeake school for wayward boys. His grandfather was also an Admiral (4 star), but died right at the end of WWII when McCain was 9.)

    I attribute the greater advantage to his attending private school.

    (there is also a possibility that the military was undergoing a bit of a ‘notch’ like in the mid 90’s - in 1954 there was the post-Korean drawdown, along the notion that ‘the army&navy is obsolete, all we need is an airforce with nukes,’ - so there could have been a waning military interest that made academy admission slightly less competitive that year. I have no data to support this however)

  7. Kolohe Says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Oh, and I finally read the links. Not a McCain fan, but that Venezuelan quote is pretty weak beer. I think the whole ‘gaffe’ thing is silly; of course you can find people misspeaking (specifically adding or subtracting an important article or conjuction) if they literally speak all day, and everything they say is recorded.

    (Note: nonetheless, I’m with Cafferty wrt Palin: WTF? Heck, she wasn’t close to this bad when she was debating and on the stump running for Gov from what I’ve seen)

  8. P.M.Lawrence Says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    At least the comments cleared up that it was Annapolis, not West Point.

    The standard nomination process was supposed to be a connection to the constitution in the British sense of an unwritten constitution, “how things interlock in a mutually supporting way”. The narrow focus on the written document led people to neglect this, just as it led them to neglect anchoring powers that can be used to make war to trigger conditions connecting them to official declarations of war.

    There is another loophole, one that was used by General MacArthur: sons of Congressional Medal of Honor [sic] holders can get in (a hereditary part of the unwritten constitution). I don’t know if that was avaliable in this case, but it may have been.

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