Re: McCain and his pedigree
- From: Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:49:28 GMT
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:38:56 -0400, Gary <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:23:14 -0500, Glenn <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:08:24 -0400, Gary wrote:
According to Time, William Alexander was not a good soldier for the
Confederacy. He fainted at the sight of blood. I wonder if those
slaves were William's or were they brought into the marriage by his
wife.
That was a pretty common way for a young man to get rich in the early
1800s. Marry a Planters daughter. An idea that was not lost on
John when it came time to plight his second troth. By 1980 -- and at
age 44 -- John must have concluded that working for a living was a
bitch.
Which reminds me of a ditty that was popular with young Southern men in
the 1850s. It went:
"All I want in this Creation,
Is a pretty little wife
And a big plantation".
The idea at the time was to marry both.
Another thought: MCain drew his first government check when he became
an ensign in the late 1950s. He has gotten one each month that has
passed since then.
McCain had a great uncle who started the selective service during WW1.
We don't seem to have any evidence that McCain's were anything but good
old southern boys after we overthrew British rule. We know where that
leads, Truman (Korea), LBJ (Viet Nam), Carter (Iran), Bush babies (Iraq).
Apparently southerners can't see beyond revenge for 1865 or maybe this is
just the best they have and the ad peddlers are all from the south.
It all comes down to "Sword of Honor". A concept that I have always
abhorred. But it is still alive and well among my Scoth-Irish friends
and relatives. It was this mental attitude that caused the
Secession in 1861. It is my personal opinion that honor -- unlike
patriotism which is the last refuge of scoundrels -- is their first
refuge.
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1485.cfm
"....The kind of honor I am referring to here is not the gentility of
men such as Robert E. Lee. It is the rougher sort embodied in the code
duello, which encouraged men to engage in vainglorious bouts of
one-upmanship and to respond to insults with violence. Among the poor,
the violence took the form of no-holds-barred gouging and scratching
contests, the aim of which was to tear out an opponent?s eye or
otherwise permanently disfigure him. Among the rich, it took the more
formal shape of the duel. But the essential point was the same: An
honorable man never accepted insults; he responded to them with
force...."
I like that idea, "Honour is the first refuge of the scoundrel".
We don't have that kind of honour anyplace I've lived, but
when I think of Aaron Burr, who challenged Hamilton to a
duel and shot him dead after Hamilton had thrown away his
shot rather than try to kill Burr. Definitely the "honour" Burr
had was part and parcel of his being the most despised
person in American history, rivalled only by Benedict Arnold,
but Arnold I think had better excuse.
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