Erratic McCain says he's ready to fight the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Erratic McCain says he's ready to fight the the Cuban Missile Crisis
John Aravosis (DC) · 10/21/2008 11:59:00 PM ET

Dear Lord, he thinks it's 1962.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081022/ts_afp/usvote_081022112356
Maybe we can get Joe Lieberman to whisper in McCain's ear that the Cuban Missile Crisis is over. We won (more or less).

The LA Times tells us more about McCain's military experience during that era:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aviator6-2008oct06,0,7633315.story

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.

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.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/erratic-mccain-says-hes-ready-to-fight.html