You want to talk about affirmative action? Just like GW Bush, McCain got to where he is based on his last name and his father’s influence, not on his merits.
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.
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.
John McCain crashed three planes, mostly due to lack of judgment. If it had been any other pilot who wasn’t the son of an admiral, his career would have been over after the first crash. If that’s not affirmative action, I don’t know what is.
