As I mentioned to some people last night

[trinityvixen]

My granddad was in the Navy. I don't know much, though I know a little more than most. When John McCain, the poster child for cronyism and nepotism, claps a Chief Petty Officer on the shoulder, that's not respect. That's a goof-off patronizing a salior who proved himself to be a responsible motherfucker.

Keep smiling, Chief. Your respect of rank was better than McCain's.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Did you read the Rolling Stone article that gets into some of the details about McCain's military career?

Appalling, if true.

ETA: of course I posted this before actually clicking your links. :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say...

No, see that's why I got mad at the debate last night. A man who made Chief Petty Officer did serious work both as a sailor and a leader. McCain got his Dad to pull strings so his umpteen-billion crashes and demerits for behavior unbecoming didn't stop him from being Captain. I found his treatment of that sailor really, really patronizing.

Also, that article on McCain freaked me the fuck out. I couldn't stop reading even though everything I read scared the piss out of me.