John McCain Is More Than Just a Hung-Up Homophobe. There's Something "There". [View All]

[David Zephyr]

No American veteran in the history of this nation has milked (yes, milked) his time in the uniform more than Senator John McCain. I also come from a family of proud veterans from World War I and World War II to the Vietnam War and Desert Storm, but it is just awkward and embarrassing watching this angry old man still continue to leverage his military service for his own ambitions, his own accumulation of wealth and his own ego.

Memo to John McCain: Yeah, we got it. You served. But you were not the only one to have done so. You are nothing at all like most proud veterans who don't have the craven need to thump their chests every time they speak and point out that they had served. Why is it that you are so different than them?

John McCain, unlike 99% of all veterans who have served our proud nation in uniform, grew up in great privilege and under the shadow of a father and grandfather who both held powerful positions within the Armed Forces. John McCain was not just the child of privilege, but may be America's most famous military aristocratic brat.

John Sidney McCain III, grew up attending private boarding schools and was a legacy student at the Naval Academy at Annapolis where his singular achievement of notoriety was that he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class. Yes, let me repeat that. John graduated 894th in a class of 899 students. Only 5 students of 899 scored lower academically than John McCain.

Many of us, who are gay men, have in our lives known arrogant, rich and privileged white young men like John McCain when we were young. We recognize them easily. How? Because they bullied us. They taunted us. They loved to "roll the queers". They measured themselves by how non-queer they were.

Of course, this all relates directly to John McCain and the current Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that the Senate is facing. Because the young rich bully is still the same hateful prick and bully that he always was.

Seeing McCain belittle the nation's Secretary of Defense, William Gates, as just a "man who sits behind a desk", during a Senate Hearing showed what a sniveling coward John McCain really is. Coward? Yes, I call him a coward.

I certainly don't consider him a hero. McCain has personally sucked up more "hero" status for himself than every service person in our country's history combined. His self-promotion is almost as relentless as his ambition and as constant as his political opportunism.

Leaving aside how McCain cheated on his wife, how McCain lied about his adultery in his "autobiography", how McCain should have been in prison for his actions in the Savings & Loan Scandal, and all the rest of his shitty life accomplishments, the one carved-in-stone characteristic that I see in this pathetic sack of shit is this: John McCain is a real, bonefide homophobe and he should be man enough to just say so.

McCain's opposition to ending DADT is not because he still needs "more studies", "more surveys", "more time", "more hearings" and other ridiculous obstructions. It is only because John McCain is hung up about homosexuality. There's some real "there" there on this issue with Johnny Boy.

Me thinks, as I'm sure millions others do, that John has something eating deep within him from his past with regards to homosexuality. But belive me: I don't think that even Thorazine and the best shrink in the world could pry John's head up from out of his ass where he buried it years ago in denial. But make no mistake, he's really, really hung up.

Senator McCain, let it out, just say that you despise homosexuals and get it over with. Cut the bullshit about your "concern" about the troops.

And most of all, quit insulting our brave women and men in uniform by projecting your own irrational homophobia on to them. The verdict is in now: Our troops don't have a problem with homophobia, just Senator John Sidney McCain III does.