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McCain: Trump hasn’t apologized for POW crack
NY POST ^ | September 24, 2017 | Mark Moore

Posted on 09/25/2017 5:59:26 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Arizona Sen. John McCain insists​ ​​his vote against a GOP plan ​to repeal​ ObamaCare ​is not payback for ​Donald Trump ​demeaning​ the former POW’s heroism during the Vietnam War​​ when the president remarked, “I like ​people who weren’t captured.”

“If I took offense at everybody who has said something about me, or disparaged me or something like that — life is too short. You’ve got to move on,” McCain, a Navy pilot who spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison, told CBS’s “60 Minutes”​ in an interviewed that aired Sunday.​

“And on an issue of this importance to the nation, for me to worry about a personal relationship, then I’m not doing my job,” the senator added. see also McCain deals potential death blow to GOP health bill McCain deals potential death blow to GOP health bill

McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, said the president has never apologized to him for making the caustic comments​ in July 2015​, a gesture that would help repair the ongoing feud between the two.

But McCain said they are ​”​different people,​”​ with a “different upbringing” and “different life experiences.”

“He is in the business of making money and he has been successful both in television as well as Miss America and others,” ​McCain ​said in the interview that aired on Sunday. “I was raised in a military family. I was raised in the concept and belief that duty, honor, country is the​ ​— is the lodestar for the behavior that we have to exhibit every single day.”

“I don’t know what he’s going to do tomorrow​ … ​or say​ ​tomorrow​,” he said​ of Trump​. “He changes his statements almost on a daily basis. So for me to spend my time trying to analyze what he says, I don’t know.”

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To: COUNTrecount

So people have to suffer from Obamacare because McCain is butthurt. God cannot take this man fast enough.


41 posted on 09/25/2017 7:51:12 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: COUNTrecount

So you wreck your country because of a ”crack.” You are pitiful, John.


42 posted on 09/25/2017 7:52:02 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: COUNTrecount

While we can appreciate what McCain went through as a POW, that does not make him a hero. During the Civil War, and every ither war, POWs went through far worse without allowing their fellow Americans to crown them as heros.


43 posted on 09/25/2017 8:19:33 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Bob Celeste

Don’t forget Lisa Murkowski and the posers Rand Paul and Ted Cruz


44 posted on 09/25/2017 8:22:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Parley Baer
"So people have to suffer from Obamacare because McCain is butthurt. God cannot take this man fast enough."

His butthurt is a direct result of his brain cancer because of his head being squarely stuffed up his ass.

45 posted on 09/25/2017 8:28:05 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: COUNTrecount
Dear John,

Actually it is Your life that is short due to brain cancer. Perhaps now would be a good time to make amends with all the good people you have lied too, stolen money from, made criminals, etc. etc. We know your dont care about them in this life, but you may be meeting some of these people in your afterlife.

46 posted on 09/25/2017 8:39:14 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: COUNTrecount

President Trump hasn’t apologized for hurting McCain’s feelings, so Senator McCain is going to throw a hissy fit over repealing Obamacare and stop any progress toward restoring our freedom. And McCain still wonders why even his supporters were not excited about him as a presidential candidate.


47 posted on 09/25/2017 8:54:41 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: COUNTrecount
McCain needs to apologize for throwing the 2008 election to Obama then, he can ESAD.
48 posted on 09/25/2017 8:57:28 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: COUNTrecount
“McCain: Trump hasn't’t apologized for POW crack”

Nor should he! The Hell with old McCain.

49 posted on 09/25/2017 9:10:26 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (If it is to be, it's up to me))
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To: mountainlion

If his old man wasn’t an admiral, Johnny wouldn’t even be a Ring-Knocker. Or former POW. Or U.S. Senator. Or in any position to possibly harm the U.S.A.


50 posted on 09/25/2017 9:29:08 AM PDT by VietVet876
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