John McCain… Out of Touch, Out to Lunch, Not Fit for Public Office

September 13th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

As train wreck politicians go, it would be difficult to top the case study of Republican US Senator John McCain from Arizona.

Many
people were shocked to see images of McCain this past week, playing
video poker on his iPhone while a Senate Committee debated the very war
of which he is a chief architect. After being caught in the act, he then
crassly tweeted:

“Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing – worst of all I lost!”

Welcome to the wonderful world of John Sydney McCain III.

This
past week, at a Town Hall meeting chaired by John McCain, an audience
member stood up and proceeded to articulate his views on the hypocrisy
and illegality of US foreign policy in Syria.

He went on the accuse
McCain and others in the US Federal government of committing treason
against the American people, before finally called for the arrest of
McCain and others who have been lending their support and military
backing to al Qaeda in Syria.

After being completely exposed and given
this dressing down by a member of the general public, the Senator then
tried to make a joke and defended his prestige of standing in eight
elections.

He appeared noticeably shaken, and became confused and began
stumbling on his words.

It was a rare sight to see: a seemingly
confident, arrogant and extremely wealthy politician being knocked off
his perch by a member of the public, exposing the incredibly thin veneer
of credibility and status which many politicians are propped up on by
the mainstream media.

Below is the video of John McCain’s shocking face
to face confrontation with a member of the public:

VideoLink

Senator
McCain, who is now 77 years of age, appears to have saved his best
gaffs for the end of his political career. Unfortunately, Americans are
not taking kindly to a Senator who seems to be playing poker with their
future.

We now know that in recent months, McCain has made
multiple trips to the Middle East to meet with some of the most
questionable groups in terms of American geopolitics – Muslim
Brotherhood operatives in Egypt, and more shockingly, McCain sneaking
into Syria on the tax payers dime for a clandestine meeting with FSA
armed opposition commanders and fighters in Syria attempting to unseat
Bashar al Assad’s Syrian government.

McCain has long advocated
for illegally assisting these fighters with US weapons and financial
gifts.

The Senator had promised the opposition more military arms and
more political support, but as recent events in Washington prove, McCain
could have been simply informing the opposition leaders and possibly
their al Qaeda fighting groups too, that the US would soon be launching
air strikes against the Syrian government – defacto air cover the
insurgency.

What was said at those meetings, who was present and who
paid for his trip? That would be an interesting question for McCain to
answer under oath in front of a Senate Committee Hearing,

Somehow,
if by magic, McCain’s anti-Assad crusade dovetails rather nicely with
Obama’s plans to ‘punish’ the Syrian leader over the alleged use of
chemical weapons last month outside of Damascus.

Some rare
democracy-type symptoms appear to have spread westward from Great
Britain these past few weeks.

Firstly, Obama felt somehow compelled to
allow his Congress to vote on the matter of military force,
which was followed by closed-door discussions with McCain and his
neoconservative cohort Lindsey Graham who told the President they would
only back his action if it were a much bigger, and wider military
operation designed to turn the tide of the war in favour of the Syrian
armed opposition.

McCain and Graham’s plan of aggression was curtailed
slightly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s decision to
restrict the terms of the McCain enhanced, Libya-style intervention.

“There’s no reference to changing the momentum on the battlefield, there’s no reference to arming the Free Syrian Army,” McCain recently told NBC News.

According
to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, 70 percent of the
Americans say they are against any effort by the US or its allies to
supply those rebels with any arsenal, and similar numbers oppose
military intervention by the US, which most Americans have figured out
is nothing less than air support for a violent insurgent and terrorist
confab made up largely of imported, non-Syrian mercenary fighters.

McCain’s
explicit backing of these forces, and his open drive towards war, is
clearly at odds with the American people and although he is certainly
not alone in that damp category, his over-the-top, pro-war stance in the
face of damning public opinion on a new war in Syria demonstrates how
completely out of touch he is with the American public.

Patriot PR: Unraveling McCain’s War Hero Image

For
years Senator McCain has fashioned his political image as that of
having a huge military prowess and impeccable war-time credentials.

Aside from his relationships with military contractor giants like Boeing
and others, McCain’s war record has been a huge bone of contention for
critics who have deconstructed the myth of the war hero image he subtly
plays on at any opportunity.

McCain’s military credibility is
mainly derived not from any brilliant achievement or extraordinary skill
set, but rather from that of victim status.

McCain is widely
known as a Vietnam P.O.W., who allegedly endured solitary confinement
and torture by the enemy, the Viet Cong, for a number of years in Hanoi.
This kind of profile is like a bullet proof shield in American
politics, and it certainly has helped McCain over the years. But some
question it.

Aside from his own account of events, the only other
evidence of his horrific ordeal are testimonies of his fellow surviving
prisoners, and also a regrettable series of propaganda radio and film
pieces in which he played a starring role, made by the North
Vietnamese.

To be fair, repeated torture and solitary
confinement could explain the blips of mental instability and massive
chip clearly visible on McCain’s shoulder.

It’s easy to feel sorry for
him, and even to write off his reoccurring tirades and gaffs as perhaps
that of an acute sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome. If this is indeed the
case, then one should feel sympathetic to John McCain, but still
question his ability to lead.

Upon closer examination however,
it’s more likely that his permanent chip on the shoulder and the spoiled
brat-like outbursts are a direct product of a lifetime of privilege,
where mishaps and misdeeds were always tidied up to maintain the
impression of a spotless record – one which enabled his relatively
fast-track in the political rat race.

John McCain was one of worst students in his naval class,
who graduated from the Naval Academy 894th out of 899, but because he
was the son of the great Rear Admiral John ‘Jack’ McCain II, he didn’t
end up as a petty officer, or in charge of the mess hall. Instead his
path was clear for advancement within that branch of the US military.

It
gets worse. Along the way to the Hanoi Hilton, he crashed two Navy
aircraft while piloting them, and a third plane was reported to have
crashed through power lines in Spain while “dare devil clowning”.

A
fourth aircraft was also destroyed on the deck of the USS Forrestal
aircraft carrier parked off the coast of North Vietnam.

That deadly
incident involved McCain’s and another aircraft, as part of a larger
disastrous incident and fire that killed 134 sailors and injured many
others. It was by all accounts, a tragic day.

Details of what
happened that day on the USS Forrestal differ somewhat depending on
whose version of events you read, although McCain is said to have fled
the ship by helicopter alongside a New York Times reporter to Saigon
where he took a much-needed R & R, and did not even attend the
memorial service of his fallen comrades in the days immediately
following the tragic incident. Douglas Valentine wrote for Counterpunch in 2008:

“How
psychologically twisted is McCain? And what actually happened to him
in his POW camp that twisted him? Was it abuse, as he claims, or was it
the fact that he collaborated and has to cover up?

Covering-up
can take a lot of energy. The truth is lurking in his subconscious,
waiting to explode. A number of US officials, including Andrew Card,
have commented on McCain’s inexplicable angry outbursts.

In
a July 5 2006 NewsMax.com article, former Senator Bob Smith (R-NH), was
quoted as having said about McCain:

“I have witnessed incidents where
he has used profanity at colleagues…. He would disagree about something
and then explode.” Smith called it “irrational behavior. We’ve all had
incidents where we have gotten angry, but I’ve never seen anyone act
like that.”

So, you say, McCain has a short fuse behind
the plastered TV smile. So he calls his colleagues assholes and
shit-heads. In high school they called him “McNasty.” That’s just how
he is. Always was, always will be.”

“McNasty”
was his nickname during his formative school years, because of his
willingness to get in fights and aggressive demeanor.

As young man – and
a man, he likes to be known as a “maverick”, but to some that might
simply means coming off as aggressive, and slightly unstable at times.

For a a man holding a high public office, however, you’re expected to
be in a fit state of mind. Here we might question McCain’s role in
planning wars and negotiating secret deals with an armed opposition in
Syria.

Was McCain actually ‘tortured in solitary confinement’ as he claims? Valentine adds here:

“However,
on March 25, 1999, two of his fellow POWs, Ted Guy and Gordon “Swede”
Larson told the Phoenix New Times that, while they could not guarantee
that McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.

As
Larson said,

“My only contention with the McCain deal is that while he
was at The Plantation, to the best of my knowledge and Ted’s knowledge,
he was not physically abused in any way. No one was in that camp. It was
the camp that people were released from.”

Guy and Larson’s claims are given credence by McCain’s vehement opposition to releasing the government’s debriefings of Vietnam War POWs.

McCain gave Michael Isikoff a peek at his debriefs, and Isikoff
declared there was “nothing incriminating” in them, apart from the
redactions.”

In the fall of 1967, McCain was routinely
bombing innocent civilians in North Vietnam from the safety of an
aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. “I am a war criminal,” he
confessed on 60 Minutes in 1997. “I bombed innocent women and children.”

Maybe
McCain is trapped in an older universe, and still trying to extend the
senselessness of previous wars into the present to somehow fix what was
already broken. It’s hard to tell, as he is a very complex case study to
say the least.

Friends in dirty places

McCain
is also attached to one of the dirtiest financial scandals in US
history, but incredibly, he was somehow let off the hook, in this case
by the Senate Ethics committee. Wikipedia explains his role in the infamous ‘Keating Five’ scandal:

“McCain
became enmeshed in a scandal during the 1980s as one of five United
States Senators comprising the so-called Keating Five.[97]

Between 1982
and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in lawful (‘lawful’) political
contributions from Charles Keating Jr. and his
associates at Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, along with trips on
Keating’s jets that McCain belatedly repaid in 1989.

In 1987, McCain was
one of the five senators whom Keating contacted in order to prevent the
government’s seizure of Lincoln, and McCain met twice with federal
regulators to discuss the government’s investigation of Lincoln.”

Whatever happened, or didn’t happen,
to John McCain over his illustrious military and political careers,
most keen observers will agree that there is something about this man
who has always seemed a bit off-key at the best of times, and outright
wrong at his worst.

Some would go so far as to label him an
embarrassment. His video poker gaff simply crystalized what many had
already suspected – that McCain is out lunch, even as war is being
debated in his own chamber of government.

Perhaps it’s time for
this 77 year old outdated and out-of-touch political relic, for once in
his lofty career – to do the honorable thing and be done with public
life, for there’s surely a board position through one of his powerful
corporate lobby connections, or campaign benefactors.

Do the right thing for America and for the world, for once Mr. McCain, and please retire… to the golf course.

September 9, 2013 – posted at 21stCenturyWire