Well, that school made money on him, because he may be (barely) educated, but he certainly isn't smart!

If he were, he'd release his birth certificate so he could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a natural-born citizen and therefore eligible to be President. Instead, the Panamanchurian Songbird hired lawyers to spin and bury the issue, instead of simply taking it on head-on with the pure truth.

Now, Google "Black Mesa Relocation Genocide McCain" and see what THAT tells you!

The professed intent of a voucher program is excellent -- wouldn't it be great if low income weren't an obstacle to getting a decent education?

But the reality is a more complex smokescreen:
(1) As mentioned in article, these proposals make a laughably insignificant dent in the cost of a private education.
(2) Private schools that were designed to keep out the low income kids can and will continue to do so, simply by pricing themselves accordingly.
(3) Even if kids could freely select which school to attend, this ignores the question of how they actually get across town to a better school -- do school voucher proponents really want kids spending 10+ hours weekly on a bus commuting across town?
(4) The voucher approach also fails at the more desirable endeavor of creating good schools in one's own neighborhood. The free market won't any more create good schools in poor neighborhoods than it does bring high-end stores to those same parts of town.
(5) Equal opportunity schooling won't happen as long as schools remain financed by property tax. Currently, kids' chance at a decent education is essentialy tied down to the size of their parents' houses.

Look, this is America, land of opportunity. It is not the "land of hand-outs" although we have become that over the past 40 years. If McCain's parents had the financial means to send their son to a private school, good for them. It was their choice and they could afford to send him to Episcopal School.

As far as McCain being a U.S citizen, I would suggest that those who are in military/naval service to the United States are assigned to bases around the world. McCain's father and mother were both U.S. citizens and as an Admiral in the United States Navy, he was U.S. government property. Thats right, property of the United States of America. All service people on active duty are "property" of the United States Government As such, Admiral McCain was stationed in Panama when John McCain was born, but, he is automatically a U.S. citizen and at the time he was born, Panama was a U.S. possession.

We need to learn as a society that we are free to make decisions regarding our children's education and none of us should be beholden to a huge Federal Government bureaucracy. We are the government. Some of us go to public schools financed by our tax dollars and some of us go to private schools where the parents pay heavy tuition costs and they still pay taxes to support the public schools even when their children are not enrolled in the public school system.

Stop the class warfare and petty bickering. You all sound like a bunch of liberal left-wing, whimpering cry babies that want a hand-out instead of an opportunity.

It is interesting to note that though McCain may have graduated from that prestigious school, he then went on to graduate in the bottom 1% of his class at the Naval Academy. It is hard to fathom how someone with both a father and grandfather who were admirals, could perform so poorly at the academy. I have even heard some people suggest that were it not for his father and grandfather he would never had gotten into the academy, and he certainly would not have graduated from it.

If I ruled , there would only be free public education.

McCain is so weak in his understanding of the problems in the ME that he doesn't even know which factions are where. But the worst thing about him is his quick temper. He's trying hard to paint himself as someone other than the person he is, even changing his church affiliation at age 71, but his temper still simmers just below the surface.

What we need is someone who can listen to a variety of perspectives, asking pertinent and piercing questions before arriving at a sane, rational and intelligent decision. We've had enough of a leader who starts with a conclusion and requires his staff to fix the facts to support that conclusion. The qualities of intelligence and calm temperament seem more important than what someone's preacher said in gaging which candidate would make the best leader of the free world.

Let's see ... should we go for the flyboy who had astonishingly low grades at the Naval Academy, or should we go for the Harvard grad who graduated at the top of his class?

Don't poo-poo the $2000 voucher. As homeschoolers, my wife and I could use it to buy books for my son. The absolute most cost effective education is homeschooling.

Well,while we on this subject of McCain,s education, Is it fair enough to remind everyone of McCain,s lack of a formal education as well?. Of all the 2008 Presidential Candidates, Mccain has the lowest level of education achieved. His rivals Obama and Clinton have Juris Doctorate degrees. Maybe there is a link between McCain,s lower academic education and his weak understanding of economic principales and foundamentals.

You seem to forget that Jimmy Carter graduated inside the top 10 % (59 of 820 according to his own book) at Annapolis, and what a president he made.
There might even be a connection between the way McCain served his country, and his lack of opportunity for more education.

I at least would rather trust somebody with less education who served their country, than somebody with a higher education who only served him- or herself

I grew up in Hyde Park on the south side of Chicago as Obama's children are now. I am white, and I attended the public schools. Multiple public schools are closer than the Lab School to Obama's house (it is easily recognized by the large open lot next door which Tony Rezko sold to him at a discount, and by the secret service minivan parked in the driveway). Those schools are, however, majority black. What does the Rev. Wright think about choosing a heavily white elitist private school over African American ones?

A strong rebuff on my earlier comments has motivated me to comment again. It is becoming increasingly clear this dialogue is moving away from the simple issue of McCain,s "public education policies", to an even more serious issue of McCain,s "educational attainment level".
A higher academic education as argued, could have enahanced Mccain,s analytic skills on the economy. After all, after all these years in the Senate, the economy is still not his strong suit(his own words). This observation is based solely on his academic achievements, and not on his high degree of patriotism or services to the country.
Aside his national campaign rivals, as compared with other foreign leaders counterparts in France or Russia for example, if elected in November, Mccain will be "the least educated President in U.S. modern history".