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John McCain memoir, ‘The Restless Wave,’ coming in April
AP ^ | October 20, 2017 | Hillel Italie

Posted on 10/20/2017 12:14:04 PM PDT by C19fan

An upcoming memoir from Sen. John McCain has taken on new meaning since he first decided to write it.

“The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations” is scheduled to come out in April, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Friday. The publisher quietly signed up the book in February, without any formal announcement. In July, McCain disclosed he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and last month he said the prognosis was “very poor.”

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: 2018election; dyinjohn; johnmccain; justintime; mccain; mccainbook; restlesswave; songbird; strawberries; therestlesswave
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To: C19fan

Just die already!!!!!!!!


21 posted on 10/20/2017 12:28:46 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: C19fan; txnativegop; BenLurkin; samtheman; hal ogen; TTFlyer

To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing a corpse at the funeral. The final result is tragic, but we should not have suffered such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets.

Besides his problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens, joining Democrats to undermine Republican leadership for judicial appointments (Gang of Fourteen), and restricting freedom of speech, he has proven himself severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.

John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual fabricating legal combatants for terrorists who are beyond the pale according to the Geneva Conventions. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensured information vital to defeat terrorists would always remain sacred and unobtainable.

Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. However, McCain has chosen to embrace liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, and suppress the searing experiences calls forth contrary insights.

McCain duplicity is on display because he understands the impossibility of fabricating an association of terrorists with Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions. Because when they do participate in international armed conflict they embrace the most barbaric criminality, and do not meet any definition of legitimate armed forces.

McCain understands that Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article Three of the Fourth Convention must be consulted. He knows terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations.

McCain understands the Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them few protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors, he promised to close Guantanamo Bay and invited terrorists into our legal system. He decided to accommodate their extraordinarily savage behavior among the civil crimes of our country, and render Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.

McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presupposes operation within an invincible society. He understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that the reality of devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations about national security. The primary responsibility of the Federal government’s three branches is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that defensive powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting looming dangers as well as responding to attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout military campaigns.


22 posted on 10/20/2017 12:29:18 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: RooRoobird20

Actually, based on the interview in the hall with the General, he looked dazed and confused and he is slurring ha words, so the tumor is obviously coming back. I think, unless there is another operation, he is in his last days,? Too bad he is behaving badly


23 posted on 10/20/2017 12:33:16 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: samtheman

Another subtitle (inspired from Guardians of the Galaxy):

“I am an @sshole and I am One Hundred Percent a D*ck”


24 posted on 10/20/2017 12:34:45 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: C19fan

Posthumously, if we’re lucky.


25 posted on 10/20/2017 12:35:48 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: C19fan

I hope it will be published posthumously.


26 posted on 10/20/2017 12:36:41 PM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: McGavin999

He is writing this, supposedly, with one Mark Salter who was his chief of staff and ran his flop 2008 presidential campaign. Salter publicly supported Hillary Clinton last fall. This is the type of people who are running the establishment Republican Party on Capitol Hill - first class, low class bums, just like McCain.


27 posted on 10/20/2017 12:41:54 PM PDT by laconic
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To: C19fan

How’s that glioblastoma treating you, Juan?


28 posted on 10/20/2017 12:41:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: McGavin999

I saw the hallway scene, so proud of the classy reporter Peter Doocey not backing off one bit since Juan’s nasty “That’s a stupid question “ demented rant.

McCain is an @sshole and a bully, was that long before the tumor came along.

I’m sure the cancer is returning, but also the chemo and radiation are also destroying what’s left of Juan’s mean nasty brain.


29 posted on 10/20/2017 12:44:31 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: samtheman

Will it out sell the Hillary books?


30 posted on 10/20/2017 12:44:52 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: C19fan

He must be referring to the public giving him the finger.


31 posted on 10/20/2017 12:48:45 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Jimmy The Snake
Will it out sell the Hillary books?

Sheesh, how many books can a Democrat but?

32 posted on 10/20/2017 12:49:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: C19fan

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33 posted on 10/20/2017 12:51:49 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: C19fan

....be nice if he included a CD in the book of the anti-American broadcasts he supposedly made for North Vietnam.
Look, like many of you, I’m not comfortable trying to tear down a former pilot & occupant of the Hanoi Hilton but if what certain former POWs say is true, McCain was not subjected to any torture at all when he agreed to spout North Vietnamese propaganda.


34 posted on 10/20/2017 12:59:53 PM PDT by Larry381 (Desperate Diseases need Desperate Remedies)
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To: C19fan

Shoulda called it “The Reckless Knave”.


35 posted on 10/20/2017 1:04:24 PM PDT by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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To: txnativegop

“Great fight” was the helping set the Mideast on fire with that b*tch Clinton practically making the US allies with ISIS,trying to overthrow Syria and assassinating Gadhafi?!!!Obama, Clinton and McCain are war criminals.


36 posted on 10/20/2017 1:04:48 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: C19fan

after observing him the last two days, I think it’s time he retired and went home to read his own book.


37 posted on 10/20/2017 1:07:06 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: C19fan

Is he going to finally admit his guilt in the so-called Keating Five fraud case? He has to be near the top of the list of despicable American politicians.


38 posted on 10/20/2017 1:10:36 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: C19fan

That anus will be remembered, if at all, for the damage he did to America. He can try to whitewash his corruption all he wants, but his history is out there for anyone to see.


39 posted on 10/20/2017 1:14:48 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: C19fan

Is anyone going to read it?


40 posted on 10/20/2017 1:23:17 PM PDT by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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