Even McCain Busted Out a Thesis!

Posted on June 16, 2008
Filed Under The Newspress Express, The Youth Vote | By Max Baumgarten

The New York Times got their hands on John McCain’s thesis, penned while he was at the National War College way back in 1974. It’s shocking to think that someone might want to read your college essays thirty-four years from now, but I guess you never know if you’re going to end up a presidential nominee. Remember, McCain was a POW in Vietnam War and had just returned to the good old U.S. of A. So when it came time to sit down and write about something meaningful, McCain was set. Let’s just say he took the adage “write what you know” seriously.

The purpose of this paper is to review the Code of Conduct in the perspective of the Vietnam prisoner of war experience and to recommend any changes that should be made to the code itself and to the training and indoctrination of the members of the Armed Forces in the Code of Conduct.

Oh come on John, you aren’t allowed to straight-up say what the purpose of your paper is–that’s cheating. In all seriousness though, the thesis has a few thoughtful remarks (“members of the Armed Forces should be informed of the nature of the United States foreign policy if he is expected to risk his life in defense of it.”) Skim through the document, and you start to see a young McCain starting to articulate his ever-controversial outlook on foreign policy.

We should just note, though, that everyone’s favorite war-hero-turned-presumptive-Republican-presidential-nominee/old guy didn’t even have Microsoft Word or its dysfunctional cousin Microsoft Works. No, no, McCain the scholar had to actually type the 44 page bad boy on a………typewriter. No cutesy fonts. No indents to screw around with page counts. That’s something that might impress the young folks if he wants to go after the tech-savvy youth vote.

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