The point is that John Kennedy for all his faults went to war, a shooting war. He had his boat cut in two by a destroyer and had the skills courage and bravery required to save his life and the lives of his crew. W has done none of that. While his father served in WWII, does the fact that he got shot down make him a failure as a pilot?
Well I know a little more than Jack Squat about being at sea and being at sea on small gunboats...Nam '65-'66, PCF's. If Kennedy hadn't had the Kennedy name he would have been court martialled. Heck, we ran aground in a storm in the middle of the night and bent a shaft and damaged a screw and rudder on our boat and the whole dang crew had to go to Saigon for an inquirery. I thought we were all going get jail time.
So you can study Navy history all you like, but unless you have a little combat salt water in your socks, you really don't know what you are talking about.