John Sidney McCain the 3rd, was born in 1936 in a place called Coco solo Naval Air Station, Near Panama. His father was named John S. McCain Junior. He attended about 20 schools until his family settled down in Northern Virginia in 1951. He went to Episcopal High School in Alexandria, and he graduated in 1954 and went into the U.S. Naval Academy, in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who both became 4-star admirals.
On October 26, 1967, McCain was flying a bombing Mission over North Vietnam when he was shot down. He fractured both his arms and a leg and nearly drowned when he parachuted over a lake. North Vietnamese troops pulled him out, crushed his shoulder and bayontted him several times before they took him to a Prison. McCain underwent 5 and 1/2 years of turture, never revealing any kind of information, he has been permanently disabeled, unable to lift his arms over his head, his hands also are so damaged he can barely write. After he was finally released and came back to America, he got divorced and remarried, quit the Navy, and went into Politics.
Political Cartoon
The Government makes choices that have to be made, even though they will not help the public. In this cartoon the Secretary of the Treasury is holding a gun to a tax payer saying “It Pains me, it pains me tremendously to do this.” and the gun says “Trillion $ bailout”. This is referring to the money that was given to the big companies to keep the stock market from completely crashing. Next, you see the Tax Payer saying, “Not as much as it’s going to Pain me”. All that money is being given to companies and the American citizens have to pay it all back from our own pockets by increasing taxes. Overall this may help us, but for now all its going to do is make things more expensive and cost us for the moment, but hopefully it will keep the stock market from crashing.
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Religion has a large effect in the Election for President. In this cartoon there are two Elephants, representing Republicans, and the one on the left asks, “Still nobody buying”? And in the background there are two costumes, the one on the left is an Arab style robe with a headdress and the Quran next to it, with the name Obama below it. The other costume is a Soccer mom’s outfit with an AK-47 and the name Michelle under it. The joke is, when Obama was being interviewed on Life TV he slipped up and told everyone he was a Muslim and then tried to correct himself saying, he was a Christian. This shows that not only is Obama a Liar, he is a Liberal Muslim.
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Crisis can give candidates something to work on and say that it will be fixed to sway voters. In this cartoon you see a person telling McCain “Sir, You’ve got to get on top of this Economic Crisis, FAST! Before your Running mate field dresses it”. Then you see Sarah Palin climbing on top of a bull, about to “field dress” it. This is showing that McCain should be in more control than Palin but in reality, Palin is even more popular than McCain. The unsaid joke is that Palin grew up in Alaska, going hunting with her father and she is about to “field dress” the Economic Issues. Overall the cartoon is saying that McCain should have more control and should fix Economic issues himself rather than having Sarah Palin do it.
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I liked how you talked about McCain's father and how McCain had followed in his footsteps.
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