McCain credits lessons learned at Naval Academy (Baltimore Sun)

GreatAmerican
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:22:18 +0000

‘Service to America’ campaign tour makes stops in Annapolis

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-te.mccain03apr03,0,2212448.story



John McCain, promoting his life story with a “service to America” campaign tour, stopped yesterday at the place that service began more than half a century ago, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s weeklong swing is designed to publicize aspects of McCain’s biography that, his strategists hope, will work to his advantage in the general election against the less experienced Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Deliberately or otherwise, the heavily scripted events, centered on his military career and 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison, have also drawn attention to McCain’s temper and age…