SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN MAKES VERY HAWKISH RNC SPEECH............

The military hero John McCain, who celebrates his76th Birthday today is beyond question - given his many years of service in the United States Navy and his multiple years of imcarceration as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.  The first speaker in tonight's prime time schedule at the Republican National Convention in Tampa where he gave a very strong, hawkish, neo-conservative sounding, pro Defense / National Security speech.  In a Convention interview with NBC News correspondent Kelly O'Donnell and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow he said that he believes Mitt Romney has the right instincts, the Reagan instincts, to keep America strong and advance American Exceptionalism.  He also expressed disaqppointment with Presidxent Obama's lack of support for American Exceptionalism and failure to support peoples in other countries around the World seeking freedom and liberation.Steve Schmidt, who managed McCain's 2008 Presidential campaign, and now serving as a political commentator on MSNBC, said following the speech, as a defeated Presidential nominee who remains in the Senate, McCain is now in an advocacy rather than policy making position, and is exercising it.  Even at age 76, I wonder if he is aspiring to be Secretary of State or Defense in a Romney-Ryan Administration ?............tdp