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Originally Posted by Seaver
Um... no career military man is rich. My father served as an Officer for 23 years. With Hazard pay, flight pay, and as an XO of a base of 30k people below him he got paid $50k. I make more than that with my first job out of college.
Oh yeah, and if you want to point out graduating at the bottom of classes.... look at our country's history. Grant, Admiral Bull Halsey, Stonewall Jackson, etc all graduated at the bottom of their class. Hell Carter finished 7% of his class and we see how crappy of a Presidency he had.
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I would agree that McCain didnt come from a monied family....but rather a family of influence, at last enough influence to get him into the Naval Academy....with poor grades and a bad temper.
And then, as soon as he came home from Vietnam, quickly divorced his wife and married money to fund his foray into politics, built solely on his war "hero" status.
More power to him for pulling it off.
But, IMO, it is why he has no clue about the issues facing the "common" working family. Much like Bush and unlike Obama, Clinton and even Reagan, all of whom came from working class backgrounds and understood how the "economy" is a personal issue and a pocketbook issue, not a theory.
Oh...and Sorkin would make a great campaign communications strategist!