Senator John McCain's Military Family is Scary- I Blame Mississippi

This is so more twisted than color tv as they used to say. Do people recall that for election cycles in 2002, 2004, and 2006 we heard how the Bush girls should be serving in the military.

Now in the tradition of Senator John Rockefeller of the important State of WV , see my post Opinionated Catholic: Democrats Doing Best to Get Military Vote ..., Senator Harkin from IOWA has put his two cents in we see. Tip of the Hat to the Anchoress as she listed this as just one thing in a Weekend of Irony.

Senator Harkin we learn said in part:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
“I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
Harkin said that “it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”

I am very shocked he did not go ahead and talk about how this danger is seen that his ignorant and brainwashed sons seemed to have followed this tradition. Including one 18 year old son that learned of dad's Victory in the Republican New Hampshire Primary while he was digging a jeep out of the mud in IRAQ!!!

His dad of course as one of the most powerful man in the Military pulled no strings to try to get his son out of Vietnam where he was suffering a living hell for there. IF you are from Iowa perhaps you can take this up with your Senator at a Breakfast with Tom

What has McCain learned? The Action Institute blog has a must read post I was thinking of doing a entry on but might as well do it now. GO see 35th Anniversary of 'The Passing of the Night'

I wonder how people in Mississippi will react to this that two of their sons have contributed to a possible Clear and Present Danger for the United States according to Senator Harkin. We learn from the McCain Mississippi blog of Grandad McCain:
The Teoc McCains
John Sidney McCain was born in 1884 in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi, and is one of the well known Teoc McCains. He attended Ole Miss for a few years and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906. His first assignments were on ships of the Asiatic Squadron. During the American occupation of Veracruz in the Mexican Revolution he served in San Diego, and performed Atlantic escort duty during 1918.Between the world wars he served on many ships and his first command was the Sirius. In 1936, at the age of 51, he was designated a Naval Aviator, and from 1937 to 1939 he commanded the aircraft carrier Ranger, and where he contributed to the development of carrier tactics that would be used in WW II.

For the first year of World War II he served as Commander of Air Forces for Western Sea Frontier and the South Pacific Force. In October 1942 McCain became Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and in August 1943 rose to the rank of Vice Admiral as Deputy Chief of Naval Air Operations. In 1944 he returned to the Pacific Theatre as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force which for over a year operated almost continuously in support of the amphibious operations. McCain's exceedingly skillful tactics protecting Canberra and Houston in October 1944 earned him the Navy Cross. Planes under his command took part in action over Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Sea, Mindoro, Luzon, Formosa, Ruyukyus and the Japanese homeland. Between July 10 and August 14, 1945, his aviators located and destroyed 3,000 grounded enemy planes.

He witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.Vice Admiral McCain died in September 1945, just after returning to the United States, and was posthumously appointed Admiral effective that date. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Secretary James Forrestal commented: ‘He was a fighting man all the way through.’His son was Admiral John McCain and his grandson is Senator John McCain of Arizona.