Originally Posted By mrkthompsn This thread is dedicated to creating a list of John McCain's accomplishments. Since there's a thread to list the accomplishments of Barack Obama, this thread will stand alone in fairness to John McCain.
Originally Posted By DAR Survived in a POW camp during Vietnam. If he survived that he can survive the Limbaugh's. Also passed McCain/Feingold, not sure if that's an accomplishment, but ask most Americans to name another bill that's out there and I don't think most could tell you.
Originally Posted By jonvn I probably won't vote for McCain. But he's a great man, and I would be proud to have either him or Obama as President. Hillary, too, for that matter. I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out so far.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out so far.<< Me, too. It's so great that this year, we will be voting FOR someone, rather than against.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy If you want to learn more about Sen. McCain, I recommend a book called "The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg. It profiles the lives of several USNA grads from McCain's era who were prominent in the Washington scene during the Reagan administration. I found it to be fairly enlightening, moreso than a biography that just focuses on a single person. Being able to compare and contrast individuals who might appear to be "cut from the same cloth" was an interesting approach. I've also read McCain's book, "Faith of My Fathers." It was a good read, too, but entirely biased towards McCain's point of view and a vehicle for self-promotion more than anything else.
Originally Posted By PetesDraggin "Me, too. It's so great that this year, we will be voting FOR someone, rather than against." I wish we had the option to vote against a candidate. I don't like any of the options for president this year. If I could, I would give a negative vote to each one.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan If I could, I would give a negative vote to each one.<< Well, you could do what I did last presidential election -- vote for everything except the president. I didn't like either choice.
