One of the most famously devastating burns in U.S. history was Lloyd Bentsen’s dismissal of Dan Quayle in a 1988 vice presidential debate: “I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” (It’s a burn so historic that it has its own Wikipedia entry.) Speaking at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, Retired Adm. John Hutson referred to Donald Trump’s infamous insult of former POW John McCain in an homage to Bentsen. Video is above; here’s the transcript:
More than 120 Republicans, national security leaders—Republican national security leaders—recently warned that Donald Trump would, in their words, “make America less safe.” He even mocked POWs like John McCain. I served in the same Navy as John McCain. I used to vote in the same party as John McCain. Donald, you are not fit to polish John McCain’s boots.
Solid. By the way, isn’t it insane that a pluraliy of Americans endorse Donald Trump’s views on national security when perhaps his most high-profile comment on the subject involved mocking an American serviceman who endured more than five years as a prisoner of war? Weird election, this one.
