John Sidney McCain III aka “McNasty”

I’ll admit, I’m not going to spend a whole lot of time researching the Reich Wing presidential candidate, but I wanted to know more about him, just out of curiosity.

John Sidney McCain III, born August 29, 1936 is a Panamanian-born (US Military base), senior United States Senator from Arizona, and the candidate for the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election.

For the first ten years of his life, “Johnny” McCain (as he was often known) was frequently uprooted as his family (including older sister Sandy and younger brother Joe) followed his father to New London, Connecticut, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and various other stations in the Pacific Ocean; McCain attended whatever naval base school was available, often to the detriment of his education.

As a child, John was known for a quick temper and an aggressive drive to compete and prevail.

After World War II was over, his father stayed in the Navy, sometimes working political liaison posts, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended the educationally stronger St. Stephen’s School in Alexandria, Virginia from 1946 to 1949, where he began to develop an unruly, defiant streak. Another two years were then spent following his father to naval stations, altogether he attended about twenty different schools during his youth.

Gaining the nicknames “Punk” and “McNasty” due to his combative and fiery disposition, he enjoyed and cultivated that tough guy image; he also made a few friends, and graduated from high school in 1954.

McCain entered the United States Naval Academy. McCain was a rebellious midshipman, and his career at the Naval Academy was ambivalent and lackluster. He had his share of run-ins with the faculty and leadership; each year he was given over 100 demerits (for unshined shoes, formation faults, talking out of place, and the like), earning him membership in the “Century Club”. He did not take well to those of higher rank arbitrarily wielding power over him – “It was bullshit, and I resented the hell out of it”.

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