Sounds like a Hail Mary pass from your own two yard line with 10 seconds on the clock. Is this what you get when you "use a Google" for your vetting process?

Someone who isn't ready for prime time? (per Politico):

“[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

Sounds like a Hail Mary pass from your own two yard line with 10 seconds on the clock. Is this what you get when you "use a Google" for your vetting process?

Someone who isn't ready for prime time? (per Politico):

“[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

Sounds like a Hail Mary pass from your own two yard line with 10 seconds on the clock. Is this what you get when you "use a Google" for your vetting process?

Someone who isn't ready for prime time? (per Politico):

“[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

Sounds like a Hail Mary pass from your own two yard line with 10 seconds on the clock. Is this what you get when you "use a Google" for your vetting process?

Someone who isn't ready for prime time? (per Politico):

“[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

"Cindy's father, who barely finished high school, went off and distinguished himself in World War II in a B-17 and came back with practically nothing and realized the American dream, and I am proud and grateful for that, and I think he is a role model to many young Americans who serve in the military and come back and succeed."

John McCain
Aug 24, 2008

Now that John McCain has made his second father-in-law a legitimate subject of debate, is Jim Hensley really a role model for our youth? Wasn't he a convicted felon? Wasn't his beer fortune -- which launched McCain's political career -- a result of his mob ties? Is the media paying attention to this part of McCain's story?