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John McCain: 'This Is My Last Term'
Newser ^
| May 1, 2018
| Polly Davis Doig
Posted on 05/01/2018 9:34:50 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Facing down an aggressive brain tumor that's kept him out of Washington for months, John McCain appears to be taking a hard look at his own mortality vis-a-vis his forthcoming book, The Restless Wave. "This is my last term," he writes in excerpts out now, via NPR and the Daily Beast. "If I hadn't admitted that to myself before this summer, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis acts as ungentle persuasion. I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much."
On President Trump: "He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones. The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values."
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TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: americanliterature; captainobvious; donaldtrump; johnmccain; mccain; restlesswave; senate; therestlesswave; trump
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To: Trump20162020
To: Trump20162020
Man is he dragging this out.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:35:29 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:35:55 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Trump20162020
McCain is an ass. He just can’t help himself.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:37:10 AM PDT
by
jospehm20
To: Trump20162020
“See that my grave is kept clean.”
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:37:10 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Trump20162020
He has put himself before his family. Should be dealing with this in private rather than making it a public spectacle. Sad.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:37:35 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: Trump20162020
Aaargh! You land lubbers won’t have me McCain to kick around!
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:38:15 AM PDT
by
ncdrumr
(Oooh, SarahCUda!)
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:38:41 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Trump20162020
In light of what is going on in North Korean the infantile stupidity of this "thinking" has been laid bare.
What is NOT in keeping with out values John is your role in fostering illegal military action by the US in Libya and Syria for despte their being NO compelling US interest involved.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:39:08 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
To: Trump20162020
You wouldn’t have to worry about ‘speaking freely’ if you always told the truth.
So,.. what lies do you want to confess to, wetstart songbird?
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:39:50 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: Trump20162020
This is my last term.
**********************
Thus spake Captain Obvious.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:41:45 AM PDT
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: Trump20162020
So John
You admit you have a lying scumbag your whole life desperate to get poltical power at any cost.
I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much."
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:42:43 AM PDT
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MNJohnnie
("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
To: Trump20162020
Hopefully he’ll meet his maker or be forced to quit long before. He’s running on the tumor. The brain was removed.
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:42:44 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:43:39 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: Trump20162020
"This is my last term," he writesYa think?
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:45:09 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
To: Trump20162020
Well, that lives in the land of “no screaming eagle s...”
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:46:21 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Formerly SandyInSeattle cuz I moved!)
To: Trump20162020
John McCain: 'This Is My Last Term' Thank you, Captain Obvious.
To: Trump20162020
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
PGalt
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