John McCain keeps saying "Obama promised to take public financing!" and "Obama wouldn't have eleventy billion town-hall debates with me!" and "Obama has run more negative ads than anyone ever!" and "Obama knows all kinds of professors with funny-sounding names!" but all I'm hearing is...
Oh, well that's just what we need! Another cocky, reckless jackass who coasted through school and career on his famous name.
John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.And now he wants to try some "clowning" around with our economy, our health care and especially our military. Truly frightening. Read More......
McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure.
The 23-year-old junior lieutenant wasn't paying attention and erred in using "a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn," investigators concluded.
The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials.
In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires, causing a blackout, according to McCain's own account as well as those of naval officers and enlistees aboard the carrier Intrepid. In another incident, in 1965, McCain crashed a T-2 trainer jet in Virginia.
