Sirened

Everyone who follows politics knows that John McCain fought in Vietnam and spent 4 years wearing rubber tires for shoes in a Vietnamese POW camp. But what about his less known military history prior to Vietnam?

Well, like most sailors tales of shore leave, John McCain’s reads something like a raunchy Hustler magazine…In 1957, upon docking on the beautiful shores of Rio De Janeiro, McCain wasted little time hitting the sauce hard and fondling the locals ever so gentlemanly. This story summarizes what McCain wrote in his 1999 memoirs of a time when he was not senile.

The story involves McCain bragging about his conquest of a Brazilian model and a romantic tale that involved him revisiting the country twice for more hot Latin action. I wonder how many times McCain revisited this memory when “Charlie” had him digging ditches on a bowl of white rice.

I must say that I am impressed. I thought McCain was just some stiff who was in the wrong place at the wrong time while serving his country. But hey, he was a sailor and he did what sailors do best-shore leave!

I’m also surprised by McCain’s attraction to something darker than the Pillsbury dough girl (if there was one).

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