McCain Mocks Polynesian Voyaging Society

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Sen. John McCain served for years in the Navy, but apparently he doesn’t like all boats. McCain took to Twitter and mocked a $300,000 grant for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii as the No. 1 worst pork barrel project in a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill. The organization builds double-hulled canoes and studies how Pacific Islanders navigated the ocean without modern instruments. McCain might be jealous of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian vacation, but lashing out at Polynesian culture? Auwe!

Read it at the Economist and Twitter.

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