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**Scott Seidman** · October 8th, 2008, 01:58 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

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On 8 Oct 2008 12:25:07 GMT, Scott Seidman
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Dave LaCourse wrote in
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ALL Naval aviators are hot shoes. They couldn't and wouldn't be
pilots unless they were.

My point exactly, Dave. Do we really want someone with that attitude
and temperatment at the helm right now?? If this is a story that can
tell us what McCain's outlook is, isn't this an important story?

Scott, in all seriousness, what he did as a young man is not
absolutely an indicator of how he might act as an older, more mature
man, and in McCain's specific case, his later actions show a distinct
maturing from a "hot shot" to a real leader, at least in the military
sense. By all or most accounts, McCain began to "straighten up"
before he was shot down and when McCain returned from being a POW, he
was a real leader. His later military career was substantially
different than his earlier career and he showed real promise. Hence
my comments about Obama's admitted drug abuse - I've no doubt that he
learned from that and matured beyond it, and is probably a better man
with better understanding because of it, as did McCain from his
youthful actions. But again, if one's past is the only indicator in
your mind, fine - you're firmly convinced me - McCain should never be
allowed to fly any aircraft ever again and Obama is a dangerous drug
abuser.

TC,
R

Richard, I think we're looking at one of them "four legs, two legs, three
legs" things. McCain simply doesn't look anything like the leader he was
eight years ago. He doesn't seem to have it in him to keep the hot shot
supressed anymore, and I suspect we'll see more and more of that as he
continues on into his dotage.

If McCain really was still a leader, he would have been leading a
Republican charge to keep the Idiot in Chief under control these last
eight years, instead of writing him a blank check. This would have been
the "maverick" move that would have kept a perfectly good (arguably)
political party from becoming poison for at least one election cycle, and
history would have put him in the political hero column.

Because he did not do this, his party is out of a leadership role, as is
appropriate for a group that has to redefine their mission to regain
credibility with moderate Americans.

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Scott
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