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Posted on 10/17/2017 7:43:25 AM PDT by mandaladon
Sen. John McCain on Monday slammed what he described as "spurious, half-baked nationalism" rising in the United States and elsewhere.
Many took the remarks as veiled jabs at President Donald Trump and one of his former key White House advisers, Breitbart publisher Steve Bannon. McCain made the remarks as he accepted the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. Former Vice President Joe Biden presented McCain with the medal.
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history," McCain said.
McCain's words were interrupted by loud cheers and applause.
"We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil," he continued. "We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don't. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn't deserve to."
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Says a man who’s brain was half-baked BEFORE it started to rot!
So the Liberty Medal is about as respectable as the Nobel Peace Prize?
IOW, not worth the metal from which it’s made.
We want FULL-Baked Nationalism, dunce.
Liberty Award from Joe Biden? Next step down must be the Nobel Peace Prize.
“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil...”
What does this mean? We live in a land today that is a reality, not built on a pipe of dream of “Hope and Change.”
It’s time for this guy to retire. I’ll wait to see how he votes on the tax bill coming up, but if it’s like we’re hearing, ie that he will not vote for it, then heck with him.
What is half baked has been John McCain. Still just a lying corrupt sleazy dirtbag.
NCC is hosting Khizr Khan!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those are not invalid points, but those ideals don’t have to come with open borders in a time where that very thing allows the enemy inside. And they don’t have to come with repeated nation building that continually provides us death and dumbness with no reward.
There is a middle ground to the moral ground.
That glioblastoma sure is slow.
Medals and awards have nt meaning any longer. Obama’s “Nobel Peace Prize” was one example. This is another.
What a disgrace this man has become. He gets weirder and weirder every day and is allowed to keep his job, fancy that.
Nothing says patriotism like supplying arms to jihadists and encouraging the invasion of the country by illegal aliens......../s
His brain has been half baked for decades.
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“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil...”
He’s gone.
‘spurious, half-baked nationalism’.......coming from the guy who used “Country First” as his Presidential campaign slogan in 2008.
This McCrap is on the front page of the Philthadelphia Inquirer this morning. I refuse to even look at it.
Between him and Cochrane, it seems Mother Nature is helping America.
I guess all those guys on the Forrestal were fully baked, John.................
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