McCain has never applied for a job

[DogPoundPup]

Name: Lee Kellogg
Hometown: BDO

I went over to the McCain web site to check if McCain had ever held a job. You know, a job he had to apply for, from an employer who might reject him. Never happened. His appointment to the Naval Academy was a legacy deal, just like that Bush/Harvard crap. The bio is vague about events following his discharge, but the divorce and one month later merger/acquisition with the Hensley Cheap Beer Corporation helped McCain avoid applying for work for the rest of his life.

I well realize that it is not to the conservative self image to do actual work (or thinking, or writing your own books, or studying for that matter). The real problem is that it is also not in the grand ole Conservative self image for a man to be out-earned by his (1st, 2nd, 3rd ... etc.) wife.

If I were an enterprising journalist, I'd wait until McCain brought up the elite, snobby, uppity black thing again, then ask him how many job applications he has filled out in his life. Then maybe a follow-up about how to drive a car, how to seem busy on public transportation, how to put gas in a car, or how to change the blade on an electric lawn mower. I'd also ask why he thinks spent nuclear fuel is safer this election cycle than the last, but that would necessitate that he read something about the subject.
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200808110179#8

[Avalux]

1. Sounds exactly like Bush.

Never worked a real job a day in his life. People need to understand this is NOT the kind of person we want in the WH.

[nc4bo]

2. How elitist. Silver spoon in the mouth bas-turd. nt

[blondeatlast]

3. The man feels entitled to the presidency like he's been entitled to everything else, including

attending the Naval Academy and a pretty (in that WASP*ish way only the most spoiled of WASPS find pretty) filthy-rich wife.

With the right framing, this could really hurt him, IMHO. I'm sick of the filthy rich getting their way all the time (and I'm quite financially comfortable, but sometimes sturggle at the end of the month like everyone else (like now)).

I like this; I hope some savvy journalist and some savvy Obama surrogate makes this an issue.

:thumbsup:

[AndyTiedye]

5. 2 Trophy Wives, Actually

He traded in the old one when she got damaged,
but was actually married to both simultaneously for a little while.

[cliffordu]

4. It's tidbits like these that make me love DU.

:rofl:

[pansypoo53219]

6. bootstraps are for the poor.

leave mcPOW ALONE!

[suston96]

7. I don't like McCain either.....but he DID apply for a job.....

http://www.house.gov/stearns/Constituent_Services/Military_Academy_Nominations.html

To attend a service academy is a two-step process consisting, first, of applying directly to the desired academy for an appointment and, second, applying to me for a nomination.

And going through 4 years of a service academy is one helluva "job". The pay sucks, however. I believe he was paid the equivalent of an E-5.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Was there ever a doubt he would be accepted?

[annabanana]

8. kickers! . . . . n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

9. or "How much does a quart of milk cost?"