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It is also abosolutely astounding that some people think that a person who was close to the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy and got his wings due to his father's connections(McCain) is considered a military genius.

Is finishing last in your class and defending your country now considered worse than avoiding service because of a cyst on your butt? Rush's father, Rush Limbaugh Jr., also had a pilonidal cyst, but that didn't keep him out of the service. Rush's father was a fighter pilot during World War II, flying a P-51 Mustang in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

Is finishing last in your class and defending your country now considered worse than avoiding service because of a cyst on your butt?

Actually yes. McCain didn't have the aptitude to be a Navy pilot and if it wasn't for his "family" connections he would have never been allowed in a plane.

By allowing a person who didn't have the aptitude to be a flyer, become one because of ego, is much worse than a person being "4F", IMHO.