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by Tim F|  March 20, 20089:06 pm| 23 Comments

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Randall “Duke” Cunningham was a war hero Navy fighter pilot. Barring any other qualification (like, say, being right about Iraq or the ability to tell Shia from Sunni) that makes him a foreign policy genius and a perfect candidate for president.

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  1. 1.

    The Commander Guy

    March 20, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Too bad being in jail and having teh stupid Big Time precludes him from such an endeavor.

    But seriously this guy was the role model for the grizzled tom skerrit instructor character from “Top Gun.” Too bad he joined the GOP. It looks like they were a REAL bad influence on the guy. And the rest is history. Sad History.

  2. 2.

    Dug Jay

    March 20, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Well, he certainly appears to be far more qualified than Obama. However, there are similarities, I must admit. For example, Obama has been hanging out with some (e.g., Tony Rezko) of the same kinds of low-life that did in Cunningham.

  3. 3.

    Incertus

    March 20, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Someone please tell me that there’s a picture of John McCain with Jeremiah Wright floating around out there, perhaps from the last couple of years when he was licking the evangelical’s boots.

  4. 4.

    Ninerdave

    March 20, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Actually Duke should be king for that.

  5. 5.

    Tim F.

    March 20, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    Dug, if Rezko is the worst thing that you can think of then Obama will sail. The best efforts of several newspapers have turned up exactly nothing worth reporting. Or maybe you mean to tar Obama by guilt through casual acquaintanceship, in which case, golly, nobody who sets foot in DC can ever be President. McCain and Jack Abramoff were swapping spit compared with Obama’s “links” to Rezko.

  6. 6.

    The Commander Guy

    March 20, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    On Rezko.

    See if you are going to bring Rezko up in a blog you have type Rezko at least 7 times and include some ambiguous reference to corruption another 7 times.

    Then you can start to make something of nothing. Otherwise you start to sound….. maybe shrill is the word I’m looking for.

  7. 7.

    AkaDad

    March 20, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    The Dukester is so patriotic that he wears a flag lapel pin on his prison uniform.

  8. 8.

    srv

    March 20, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Dug appears to have forgotten about Mr. Keating and all that.

    Small potatoes compared to Rezko, no doubt.

    As far as fighter pilots being great presidents… Well, we have such great examples of that.

  9. 9.

    Liberal Masochist

    March 20, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Dug Jay needs his daily slap down. He thirsts for it. At least Gary Ruppert at Sadly No! provides unintentional comedy in spades, even the fake Gary trolls provide far more amusement.

  10. 10.

    Incertus

    March 20, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    The best efforts of several newspapers have turned up exactly nothing worth reporting.

    Not to mention the Clinton oppo team, and they’re not half bad at what they do.

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    RSA

    March 20, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    As far as fighter pilots being great presidents… Well, we have such great examples of that.

    It’s funny how if you learn to fly a particular kind of airplane, you’re a fighter pilot. It’s like working out with a speed bag makes you a boxer, or spending time at the firing range makes you a sniper.

  12. 12.

    TenguPhule

    March 20, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    Well, he certainly appears to be far more qualified than Obama.

    Shorter Dug Jay: It is delicious Republican Cock.

  13. 13.

    Stoic

    March 20, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Cunningham was a real hero and a poster boy for why you should never go into politics.

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    Ninerdave

    March 21, 2008 at 12:56 am

    Dug appears to have forgotten about Mr. Keating and all that.

    Small potatoes compared to Rezko, no doubt.

    srv come one man, Rezko was totally more serious than Keating, he killed Vince Foster too.

  15. 15.

    AnneLaurie

    March 21, 2008 at 4:11 am

    IIRC, George McGovern was a fighter pilot, during a real war, against genuine Bad Guys. (WWII, Nazis.) And McGovern managed to not get his plane shot out from under him, unlike a certain Republican presidential candidate who may actually manage to outdo George’s 49/1 record, the way things look right now.

  16. 16.

    merlallen

    March 21, 2008 at 6:50 am

    John McCain is the Navy’s only Reverse Ace.
    I bet he was decorated by the NVA.

  17. 17.

    El Cid

    March 21, 2008 at 7:13 am

    Duke Cunningham was also extremely knowledgeable about working with crucial defense industries, another reason why CNN should recognize him as a well-known foreign policy expert and have him on a continuous feed from the prison cell to explain why Democrats are all traitorous surrender-crat naive hippie babies who will destroy the Urf.

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    Xenos

    March 21, 2008 at 8:23 am

    I had heard about the Forrestal, but not the other cases.

    Wow! Reverse Ace, indeed.

  19. 19.

    Fe E

    March 21, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Wow, thanks for the tip Xenos.

    Do you think this will be the last we ever hear about tht stuff?

  20. 20.

    Jon H

    March 21, 2008 at 9:23 am

    C’mon, give the man some credit for his time as Eagles QB.

  21. 21.

    Soliton

    March 21, 2008 at 11:12 am

    McGovern piloted a B24 Liberator and won the Distinguished Flying Cross for saving his crew (and himself) by ditching on Mediterranean island..

    But he was an effete librul nonetheless.

    It’s not what you do that makes you a *real* man, it’s what you believe.

  22. 22.

    DougJ

    March 21, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Tim, he was too good a pilot. If he’d crashed his plane and been taken prisoner, then he might have a chance.

  23. 23.

    PAULQX

    March 22, 2008 at 3:09 am

    Excellent point. I will use that in my debates with neo-fascists. I wish one of these talking heads would say it on TV so we could see some heads explode!

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