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John McCain’s Legacy: It’s Complicated
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 08/26/2018 5:20:56 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

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1 posted on 08/26/2018 5:20:56 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

I guess complicated is a nice way of saying rotten.


2 posted on 08/26/2018 5:26:47 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: EyesOfTX
John McCain was all for John McCain. His legacy is best exemplified by his last major actions:

1. Failure to live up to his campaign promise to repeal Obamacare, and he manipulated it so he was the deciding vote.

2. Failure to do his duty to his country by performing his congressional duties. For the last year of his life he did not do his elected job in the Senate. His failure to resign essentially leaving his seat vacant is testament to him.

3 posted on 08/26/2018 5:31:34 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Complicated only if complicated is a synonym for excrement.


4 posted on 08/26/2018 5:31:36 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EyesOfTX

Near last in his class at Naval Academy.

Incompetent flier for the Navy.

On the take as one of the Keating 5.

Pushed McCain/Feingold to gut the 1st Amendment because he didn’t like the criticism he got for his Keating participation. Law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional. (”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)

Volcanic temper.

Treacherous thorn in the side of the GOP during his whole Senate career.

Warmonger.

Terrorist sympathiser.

Vindictive score-settler right up until his passing.


5 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:01 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Paine in the Neck

He never met a war he didn’t like.


6 posted on 08/26/2018 5:34:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: EyesOfTX

What this clown did to Palin was inexcusable, what he did to us was treacherous.


7 posted on 08/26/2018 5:37:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EyesOfTX

“....A complicated man with a complicated legacy.....”
Ummmm...no, it isn’t. It’s only complicated because NONE of the UniParty want to admit to just how simple it is.
It’s a simple one-word legacy: TRAITOR.


8 posted on 08/26/2018 5:39:34 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Near last in his class at Naval Academy.
Incompetent flier for the Navy.
On the take as one of the Keating 5.
Pushed McCain/Feingold to gut the 1st Amendment because he didn’t like the criticism he got for his Keating participation. Law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional. (”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)
Volcanic temper.
Treacherous thorn in the side of the GOP during his whole Senate career.
Warmonger.
Terrorist sympathiser.
Vindictive score-settler right up until his passing.


Good list! I might add one.

Involved with foreign governments and U.S. spy agencies in an attempt to nullify the legal election of Donald Trump as President by the The People, according to the U.S. Constitution.


9 posted on 08/26/2018 5:42:55 AM PDT by upbeat5
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To: mylife
On John McCain...

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

~Mark Twain

10 posted on 08/26/2018 5:43:14 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Thank you for your sincerity.


11 posted on 08/26/2018 5:45:10 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EyesOfTX

He sucked donkey balls ..All American traitor and Linda’s butt buddy ...All this BS is worse than Wellstone ...FU McDemocRat. Rot in hell, Juan ...


12 posted on 08/26/2018 5:46:47 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Enjoy the SUCK! , 'Rats ..)
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To: EyesOfTX

Let the Orwellian revisionism begin. The past is mutated to serve the hate Trump narrative of the propagandist media. McCain is adulated, his sketchy past is bleached, he is now a useful anti Trump icon to the Left.


13 posted on 08/26/2018 5:47:44 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

When McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
But thru sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.

For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later


14 posted on 08/26/2018 5:48:40 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You know what? Trump is the closest thing I have seen to Twain in my lifetime


15 posted on 08/26/2018 5:51:29 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: upbeat5
Updated with your suggestion, modified:

Near last in his class at Naval Academy.

Incompetent flier for the Navy.

On the take as one of the Keating 5.

Pushed McCain/Feingold to gut the 1st Amendment because he didn’t like the criticism he got for his Keating participation. Law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional. (”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)

Volcanic temper.

Treacherous thorn in the side of the GOP during his whole Senate career.

Warmonger.

Terrorist sympathiser.

Colluded with foreign and U.S. spy agencies in an attempted coup d'etat against the lawfully elected President of the United States. (Again ”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)

Vindictive score-settler right up until his passing.


16 posted on 08/26/2018 5:52:53 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: EyesOfTX

It’s shameful.

Not that complicated


17 posted on 08/26/2018 5:55:33 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: EyesOfTX
His gratuitous taunts at McCain and his military service during the 2016 campaign were...deserved as it was not Trump who fired the opening shots.
18 posted on 08/26/2018 5:58:40 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BztWFG3dZo


19 posted on 08/26/2018 5:58:47 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EyesOfTX

It’s not “complicated”. McCain was a “traitor”, in every sense of the word. Simple, what else matters?

Like ... he was a rapist, but he was a nice guy.

He collaborated with the enemy during a time of war (made propaganda videos and sang whatever tune the enemy wanted (aka “the songbird”)), but he was a POW.

NO! He was a POS.


20 posted on 08/26/2018 6:03:36 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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