Deathbed Democrat...
Posted on 05/08/2018 7:13:04 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Arizona Senator John McCain, who for nearly a year has been diagnosed with brain cancer, has reportedly said that he does not want U.S. President Donald Trump attending his funeral.
Instead, McCain would like former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush reading his eulogy, NBC News said on Saturday based on a conversation with an unnamed source close to the 81-year-old politician.
"I don't know how much longer I'll be here," McCain separately says in an audio clip shared by NPR ahead of the release of his memoir, The Restless Wave.
Trump and McCain, who is a Vietnam war veteran and was a prisoner of war, have clashed over a variety of issues.
Trump controversially claimed during the run-up to the 2016 presidential primaries that McCain was only considered a hero "because he was captured" during the war, with the future president saying he prefers military heros who have not been captured.
McCain was said to be "deeply hurt" by Trump's comments, though in February 2018 his daughter Meghan, co-host of ABC's "The View," said in an interview with Politico that she does not expect Trump to continue criticizing her father's war service.
Mr. Trump] actually reached out to me and we had a very nice conversation and I feel comfortable going forward if he would say or do anything in the realm of talking about my father's war injuries in that nature, I don't think he would go there again," she said at the time.
"I don't think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way."
The source close to McCain said that the plan is for Bush and Obama to serve as eulogists at the Arizona senator's funeral service, which is to be held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
McCain, who initially identified as an Episcopalian before starting to attend a Baptist church in Arizona with his family, lost the 2008 presidential general election to Obama.
The two had a strong rivalry during the campaign, with the LA Times pointing to a controversial ad from the Obama campaign at the time that poked fun for McCain not being able to send e-mail, which some noted could be interpreted to be making light of McCain's severe war injuries, which limit his use of a keyboard.
A spokesman for the Obama campaign later clarified that the ad was poking fun at McCain's age and his admittance of not being computer literate, rather than any disability.
McCain and Obama clashed on foreign policy issues during the latter's time as president, though they have also spoken in support of each other on several occasions.
Back in July 2017 following news reports of McCain's brain cancer diagnosis, Obama tweeted: "John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John."
At the funeral....obama and Bush will be saying “Yeah you could count on ol’ John blocking what was needed to improve the lives of Americans and others around the world. If the people were for something he was against it.
Bless John McCain
(democrats can’t say God)
I hope it turns into another embarrassment to the Democrats like that one did. I remember watching it on TV, and seeing Trent Lott and other Republicans booed at the memorial. If any Republicans are actually invited to the funeral, I hope they have enough backbone to get up and walk out if it gets to the Wellstone rally level. Yeah, I know most Pubbies have no backbone, but hey! you never know.
And if Obama hadn't won, we probably never would have had a President Trump.
How arrogant and bitter and definitely delusional, perhaps senile.
If John McCain wants Obama to give his eulogy, that’s fine. O will make it about O. It will be another drinking game, counting how many time O says “I” during the speech. Fitting for McCain’s funeral.
Never trust an unnamed source.
I am looking forward to McCain’s funeral. I’d like to see it held this weekend.
Birds of a f-ing feather and all.
Obama delivers McCain’s eulogy...
“I, I, I, my, I, me, I...”.
Then takes selfies with other bigwigs.
The fix was in by the eGOP, the media manipulated the news, and the right-vote was split among candidates leaving the most leftist “Republican” winner.
What is the over-under on Obama using the word “I”?
Deathbed Democrat...
Bury him face down, it will confuse the shit out of him on judgement day...
He had and still has no respect for McCain.
I believe it. I used to like McCain, but over the last couple of decades, I have come to hate him.
I met him back in 1994.
Showing his true colors. He was a far leftist all along. The rest of the RINOs should come clean and be honest before they are ready to die.
It looks like he would be making peace with his Maker. He apparently will leave with a heart full of hate.
They shouldn’t wait for him to die. Pee on him now.
He'd probably enjoy it.
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