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McCain chides Trump for undermining U.S. values in new memoir
The Globe & Mail ^ | May 3, 2018 | Phil Stewart, Reuters

Posted on 05/03/2018 4:25:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

U.S. Senator John McCain rebukes President Donald Trump in a new memoir, accusing his fellow Republican of failing to uphold U.S. values by showering praise on international “tyrants,” discrediting the media, ignoring human rights and demeaning refugees.

“Flattery secures his friendship, criticism his enmity,” wrote McCain in The Restless Wave, which he co-authored with longtime aide Mark Salter.

“It is hard to know what to expect from President Trump, what’s a pose, what’s legitimate,” McCain said in the book that is due to be released on May 22. An advance copy was sent to Reuters by publisher Simon & Schuster.

McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, remains one of the strongest voices in his party on foreign policy, despite a battle with brain cancer. He has been credited with championing civility and compromise in Congress during an era of acrid partisanship in U.S. politics.

The 81-year-old Arizona lawmaker, who has served in the Senate since 1987, has also been both a critic and target of Trump, who during his 2016 presidential campaign disparaged McCain’s war record by saying he was not a hero after enduring 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam....

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TOPICS: Arizona; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; mccain; restlesswave; strawberries; therestlesswave; trump
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To: bigbob

They will bury this loser freak ‘ s remains in an unmarked grave. If they don’t, their will be the first urine flood ever.


61 posted on 05/03/2018 5:12:10 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will Rogers never met John McCain.


62 posted on 05/03/2018 5:13:15 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remind me again. Is McCain the one who promised repeatedly to defeat Obamacare, and when the time came he made a big show of saving Obamacare? Is he the one who rolled over for Obama in 2008?


63 posted on 05/03/2018 5:16:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Flaming Conservative

+1


64 posted on 05/03/2018 5:17:38 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: RooRoobird20
Welcome home, John.


65 posted on 05/03/2018 5:19:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not dead yet..............


66 posted on 05/03/2018 5:19:53 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This backstabbing rat b@#tard can’t die soon enough.


67 posted on 05/03/2018 5:20:19 PM PDT by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: Will88

I do wonder if McTraitor knows how much the voters despise him.


68 posted on 05/03/2018 5:22:10 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Fantasywriter

:)


70 posted on 05/03/2018 5:25:46 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will be interesting to see if McCain can still control the Armed Services Committee from beyond the grave.

Not sure if he added that rider in his contract with Satan.


71 posted on 05/03/2018 5:32:20 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If I were in politics, the temptation to just find out who says the nastiest things about me and then do stuff to p__s them off even more would be hard to resist. Even if it means damaging my own cause or career. I wonder if McCain comes here to soak up all the abuse before planning his next move.
72 posted on 05/03/2018 5:34:06 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When is the last time McCain has been heard in public? This narcissistic asshole has been brain dead for months. Whoever is “ghost” writing this is screwing Trump.


73 posted on 05/03/2018 5:35:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: VeniVidiVici

Oh, and let me continue on.

The fact that this SOB hasn’t resigned yet so that his constituents can be properly represented is due to:

A: He’s brain dead.
B: He’s a narcissistic asshole.
C: Both.


74 posted on 05/03/2018 5:39:00 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: VeniVidiVici

I thought McCain is pushing daisies??


75 posted on 05/03/2018 5:42:16 PM PDT by mplc51
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

die! already


76 posted on 05/03/2018 5:45:27 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

father knew both the father and grandfather of mccain (the admirals)-and said neither one served their son/grandson well by raising him as an entitled brat. His USNA record shows this— and shows that, like medical school, what does one call the nearly last in class....”Sir, Yes Sir” apparently.

It is unfortunate he was shot down, and the record of his Hanoi Hilton behaviour is what it is. Many here would maintain that he was taken to Moscow and brainwashed, so many of his actions seem to jibe with leftist democrats who have always been in the Soviet sphere.

What is more important is what he did with Lincoln Savings— the bankster crooks who got him out of it and the fact from there forward he has been a false republican, selective conservative and owned by both the leftist laborite/socialist wing and at the same time the M/I complex Involving us in deep military long term expenditures of lives, and hardware, providing himself as some kind of “expert” when he is certainly not, and the Beltway Bandits who perpetuate his memory and reign need to be exposed - prime vendor contractors of govt. waste. His actions in the gun running/Benghazi payoff clintonite charade and the “moderate” (taliban) ISIS support in yet another “civil” war between clients of Syria was a disaster. He has to answer for the soldiers we have lost because of it, and their families. As of course, does hitlery and billery and the entire cabal.

Just..... go, McCain. You have accomplished very little and your legacy will be even less. Whoever “wrote” this book.... name the ghost writer. And follow them into the mist.


77 posted on 05/03/2018 5:55:01 PM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Restless wave. More like a duplicitous middle finger.


78 posted on 05/03/2018 5:57:58 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Any ideas for a 1-liner that sums up his life?

One idea: "His heart was so big that he never ceased to care about what other people thought of him ..... Media People, that is".

I think that sums up the rationale for most of his actions over the decades, but there are probably other 1-liners that are much better.

79 posted on 05/03/2018 5:58:48 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain who? Who is this know nothing RINO person you speak of?


80 posted on 05/03/2018 6:02:02 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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