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McCain: Cancer diagnosis makes me freer to speak my mind
Washington Examiner ^ | April 30,2018 | Al Weaver

Posted on 04/30/2018 5:45:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says his brain cancer diagnosis has given him a sense of freedom to speak his mind in what is his final term in the Senate.

"This is my last term," McCain says in an excerpt of a new memoir set for release next month. "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. And I can vote my conscience without worry," McCain writes. "I don’t think I’m free to disregard my constituents’ wishes, far from it. I don’t feel excused from keeping pledges I made. Nor do I wish to harm my party’s prospects. But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment."

The Arizona Republican laments about the state of American politics and the rise of politicians unwilling to compromise on issues that must be solved. At one point, he tells readers that they should not support a candidate for Congress who "rides his white horse to Washington" with a partisan agenda.

However, if someone tells you they will build alliances and "split differences where possible to make measurable progress" on national issues, "ask that candidate to run for president," he writes.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: braindead; freedumb; johnmccain; mccain; strawberries
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To: Sarah Barracuda

It must be imminent for McCain. Asking son-in-law to take care of Megan? And, Megan has been absent from the The Spew.


61 posted on 04/30/2018 6:56:51 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: Hojczyk

But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment.”

You never had any, what is this mythical best, “judgement”?


62 posted on 04/30/2018 7:01:21 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: RitaOK

Having a Frontal Lobe tumor means you can’t stop from saying what’s on your mind. You get disinhibited. And if as probable you are also on steroids to reduce cerebral edema , it makes you more looney. He cares nothing for the people who elected him, or anyone else, since he has not stepped down.


63 posted on 04/30/2018 7:02:56 PM PDT by DaleGrrl
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To: Hojczyk

I met him several times during the 1996 presidential campaign. The charter flight business. The man was completely unhinged and insane back then. Nasty foul mouth with no patience and a short temper. Mean to his wife too. Not a very good person.


64 posted on 04/30/2018 7:03:56 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Hojczyk

If McCain’s mind is speaking, I’m not thinking there’s much of any real value coming from it...


65 posted on 04/30/2018 7:03:59 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Hojczyk

You were happy enough to speak George Soros’s mind for so many years... why change now?


66 posted on 04/30/2018 7:05:21 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Hojczyk
A message to Juan McLame: Not long after your decent into hell I'll be visiting your grave site. When I arrive my bladder will be full,when I leave a few moments later it will be empty.And if I have to do some jail time for vandalism or something similar...so be it!
67 posted on 04/30/2018 7:18:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Hojczyk
McCain's best use:

They even have handy-dandy little kits to grow a tree. Just add the cremains:


68 posted on 04/30/2018 7:20:42 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Hojczyk

Love it when a politician comes out and tell his constituents that he has screwed them for 35 years. Good riddance.


69 posted on 04/30/2018 7:29:45 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Hojczyk

A brain-damaged lame duck.

Who’d have thunk?


70 posted on 04/30/2018 7:41:54 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Hojczyk

The problem is he doesn’t have a mind left.


71 posted on 04/30/2018 7:45:04 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Hojczyk

I’m actually tired of him speaking his mind.


72 posted on 04/30/2018 7:46:19 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

He deserved to go to prison along with Clinton for illegal foreign influencing and war crimes. They own the blood and destruction in Syria and Libya.


73 posted on 04/30/2018 7:49:23 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: Hojczyk

very weird dude. Mc Cabe Coney.MULER, all of the same ilk. I always speak my mind. not much about politics at work but i still speak my mind. not sure what this jerk means. still cowering as one of the keating five.


74 posted on 04/30/2018 7:53:16 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: Hojczyk

Well Songbird, if it’s all the same to you, I already consider you dead and gone.

Bye.....


75 posted on 04/30/2018 7:59:43 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Gator113

He has been in stage 4 brain cancer for almost a year..?
No way is he writing a book to come out later, someone wrote it for him...but no way is he able to function to write a book..
He is medicated, and has not been seen in six months other than a few photo’s sitting down at Meghan’s wedding.

He is physically in no condition to make conversation and thoughts.. they need to stop with the Fairy Tales..Of course NO ONE will ever report the TRUTH OF HIS CONDITION OR WHAT SAD SHAPE HE IS IN..

HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED..


76 posted on 04/30/2018 8:08:10 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Hojczyk

And this is a change, how?


77 posted on 04/30/2018 8:09:04 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: Hostage
So his last vote was to keep Obamacare, right? Guess that was his "best judgment". Yeah, we got ya John. Thanks for keepin those pledges.
78 posted on 04/30/2018 8:10:06 PM PDT by VA40
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To: haircutter

ON TOP OF HIS PHYSICAL CONDITION. HE WILL BE 82 IN AUG..

So age us also a factor to consider. His family is hiding the truth from the public...


79 posted on 04/30/2018 8:11:41 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: BenLurkin
"Is he going to confess?"

My guess, he wants to make future lies more believable as a sort of death bed confession.

80 posted on 04/30/2018 8:15:34 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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