Posted on 10/23/2017 12:50:03 PM PDT by simpson96
During an appearance on Monday’s episode of “The View,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared to help celebrate his daughter Meghan’s birthday.
During the appearance the panel of women asked McCain about the recent comments he made about those who were able to dodge the draft due to “bone spurs.” Many assumed that it was President Donald Trump he was referring to in the speech accepting the Liberty Medal, because Trump was able to secure five draft deferments for alleged bone spurs.
Co-host Joy Behar asked if McCain found it “galling” when Trump “cast aspersions on your service” after getting deferments.
McCain said it wasn’t as much an attack on Trump as it was a commentary on the system that allowed the wealthy a way out while the poor were forced to serve. He specifically cited the children of farmers or urban youth, “the poor” didn’t have the option to get a letter from a doctor, go to college or disappear to another country.
“That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve,” he said.
He went on to detail heartbreaking comments he heard from veterans in response to Trump’s continuous attacks on Sgt. La David Johnson’s wife and mentor Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL).(snip)
He urged people to maintain a civil discourse, and the panel played a clip from the 2008 campaign in which McCain corrected a supporter who claimed that President Barack Obama was “an Arab.”
“Let’s stop insulting each other,” he urged.
The women of the panel asked McCain what kind of relationship he had with the president. Specifically, co-host Sara Haines asked if they talk on the phone or speak.
“Almost none,” McCain said.
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“Let’s stop insulting each other,” he urged.
You first, Sen. McCain.
The songbird of the Hanoi Hilton still sings...
McCain is a selfish, vindictive, mean spirited son of a bitch.
Gliblastoma! Start your engine!
Weird to be rooting for brain cancer.........
Finally, the View embraces Republicans.
No one is going to remember who McCain was except as a footnote in history.
He looks like he’s going to exit stage left pretty soon.
McAmnesty is unhinged.
The View? The View?
The show that my seriously astute 93 year old mother-who-could-never abide-fools called the Whomping Morons?
That show?
Sure is.
Awwwwwww, the same people that called him a racist, Nazi, and Hitler back in 2008.
Poor McCain, desperately trying to become the media’s favorite Republican again before he dies.
He was always the media’s favorite Republican until he ran for President in 2008 and then suddenly the media turned on him. It was awful. He didn’t know what to do.
It was a flippant comment, not a serious one.
Enjoy hanging with your liberal friends John.
Enjoy that liberal rock-star status you love so much.
Shameless whore.
Didn’t McLame cut off MIA efforts?
“Interesting that they would be harping on a comment made that Trump made during the campaign, and quickly corrected after he said it. It was a flippant comment, not a serious one.”
Dems will grasp at straws like nobody’s business.
Name one attack on Sgt La David Johnson's wife by President Trump.
This is the way the media does it - they put crap out there, like it is truth and nobody refutes it.
Dodged a plane wreck, we did.
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