But "making simple conjectures and reasoning" is clearly a problem for you. First of all, the Navy Secretary at the time told McCain he was on the path to be selected for flag officer. But McCain decided to retire anyway. You can't even get your facts straight. Second, even if he wasn't, that doesn't necessarily mean jack squat. There are plenty of reasons why better officers don't make it, chief among them is consistently doing the right thing as opposed to being a self-serving careerist.
My evidence is that he retired at the rank of captain. Your "evidence" is what secretary of navy allegedly told him i.e hearsay. If you want to reason, what is more likely, secretary of navy telling him he was not gonna be admiral or that he was given that McCain left the Navy after spending his whole life there... John McCain just likes to spin things. Running for congress is being a low man on totem pole. Considering his obsession with military aspects of foreign policy does it not strike you as odd he would give up Navy to run as a representative(and being in charge of nothing, just talking)? John McCain retired 3 years from the day his father died.
Are you getting paid to post your moonbattery? Or do you love your inflatable Obama boyfriend so much that you can't help yourself?
Ah, how everyone gets fired up about elephant or donkey. Guys, can't you see they are the same, just different masks. Still, it is the best system the world has known to date, and I do not see any alternative. JMHO.
I'm not sure he was suggesting that I eat the person who I have on ignore, just that I have a much higher faculty level. If one was to look for the lowest form of sea life, plankton would come to mind. Vice-versa with Killer Whales. And I appreciate the compliment.
Bullshit. You wrote: In terms of factual evidence, US Navy, far from a liberal institution, deemed John McCain NOT to be worthy of the lowest admiral rank. Retiring while eligible for selection is NOT "factual evidence" of being "deemed...NOT to be worthy" you moron. You know nothing about how promotions work, you can't reason, and you can't admit when you're wrong. Nor can you dismiss this: In early 1981, shortly after taking office, the Reagan administration's new Navy secretary, John Lehman, asked to see McCain. Eager to keep the supportive liaison in the Navy, Lehman sought to reassure McCain that he was on his way to becoming an admiral. But Lehman couldn't guarantee that McCain would rise to four stars, and McCain's doubts about reaching his father's and grandfather's status overrode all other considerations. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...12/AR2008101202306_3.html?sid=ST2008102300047